Applied Technology Personal Statement

I serve turkey dinners and make means for the less fortunate. I also serve at mass most Sundays. My favorite experience was getting the opportunity to volunteer at the local hospital. I helped the older people in the clinic get up and stretch. After that I took on the task of prepping people before surgeries. Some of these people were very scared, but I always assured them they would be alright. I made beds, checked patients in, and really just loved the overall

Staring at engine components of a car as well as holding a smartphone with almost unbelievable thickness fascinated me in many ways indirectly leaded me into getting to know more through different sources about machines ranging from transportation to communication devices. Two years of A-level preparation, further solidified my interest in this area as I found myself very fond of learning mathematics, physics and mechanics in particular. In addition, my curiosity in the operation and dynamics of objects naturally influences my choice of degree, leading me towards Engineering as it is a discipline which satisfy my own interest and most probably bring out the best of me.

Since I was little, I’ve always been good with technology. As a child, I would teach adults how to use their phone even if it was my first time holding the device. By giving me a few minutes, I could tell completely analyze a phone tell the owner how it works and such. That talent later developed my inspiration to become an electrical engineer that dealt with hardware and software that were used in phones and video games. This dream also led me to apply at a math and science school, GSMST. However it all changed in my first year there and it forever changed me.

I try to volunteer as much as possible, even though it has gotten hard since I have been away at college, but it feels good to give back to the community.

I have volunteered 2 times over the years, once at Hope mission and once with the Victory Christian Centre. At hope missions I helped cut different veggies for the meal later in the day, plated food, served trays to people, swept and cleaned tables and trays after the meal was finished, and had small conversations with different people. During my time there I learned sorting skills, working under pressure, time management, and overcoming problems.

During the past few years, I have become a full time volunteer at Friendship Village. I teach residents about the benefits of technology and how they can apply it to their lives. I also organize recreational events - my favorite being a Hawaiian themed luau last August. I have met an aerospace engineer who taught me how important it is to know the principles of everything.

It took me seventeen years to understand how amazing reading and writing could be and what it could do for me thanks to one special teacher at my high school. When I was young, I would come home from school and wait for my parents to get home so they could take me to the golf course. During our drive, my dad played country music in the background and sang as loud as he could just to make me laugh. My mom just sat there and laughed at my dad and I because she knew I did not like country music. When we arrived, I jumped out of the car in record speed because I was so thrilled to hit gold balls with my friends. I spent hours on end at the golf course; my parents nearly had to drag me home. To some a golf course may seem insignificant, but to me

I have participated in numerous extracurricular activities. I have done Odyssey of the Mind for three years, and I realized over the years that I am interested in technical problems. My favorite part was build

In middle school I was in a project, building driving cars from legos and writing simple software how they should drive and react after hitting obstacles. Although, these were simple programs and robots, they fascinated me like nothing else and I knew this was what I wanted do with my life. Since my senior year of high school I work at MetroPCS, where I regularly fix phones, doing things from exchanging broken screens to fixing software issues of people that ruined their phones

I believe that by attending this program, I can build myself as a person, student, and future engineer. I work with diligence, persistence, and will not give up on anything until the job is complete and done with precision. I would like to get to experience hands on tasks and be able to have a better understanding of what each field is like. To get to a chance to experience what certain field is like would be amazing and a huge step towards my future as I would like to get an idea of what field I would like to pursue after high school. Not only would I be interested in the hands on learning, but what it is like to sit in an actual class focused on engineering and the math and science behind it.

My most recent experience with volunteering is having gone on a medical mission trip to Uganda this summer. Our group of 18 missionaries headed out to five locations in remote places in Uganda and were able to provide medical services, by creating an opportunity for anyone who needed medical attention to meet with a doctor and receive medication for their aliments. Along with providing medical services, we provided spiritual guidance by having one on one conversations with everyone who came through about the Gospel and the opportunity that anyone has to have a relationship with Jesus Christ. At each location we visited, by the end of the day we saw at least 700 people and were able to build a church at all five locations.

For three out of the four years during high school I would go to another school for half of the day. At this school I learned about Electronics Engineering. Before this class I was curious about how things function, what makes the clock tick, or how did you receive that text message you just checked. Before this class all these things where just curiosities in my head, it was in this class that turned these

My true passion for engineering began when I came across the quote: "Technology are devices that make our lives better". Despite my first love of mathematics, my recent interest for engineering has come from two major influences. The first being my mathematics and physics teachers, both engineers by nature, who have helped me enhance the fundamental skills essential for engineering and embrace the importance of the field. The second being the learning about uses of technology in Computer Science, it taught me the magnitude of which technology contributes to our everyday lives has led me to intensify my desire to improve the lives of others.

I was very much fascinated to science since my childhood and still now, which actually played a vital role to be an engineer as an engineer knows better how to relate theoretical mathematics with practical field. Mathematics is more like magic to me which doesn’t need to adopt

I would spend hours together experimenting and analyzing various mechanics around me like the ball bearings in my bicycle & roller skates and would be fascinated by my spring loaded toy cars. During my higher secondary schooling, I showed special interest in mathematics and physical sciences and in order to supplement the education that I received in school, I became a habitual reader of science magazines and books. As a direct consequence of this, I came to know about the latest developments in the field of science and engineering, especially aerospace and manufacturing engineering as it deeply interested me and I was naturally inclined to like the subject. The basics I learnt in school only whetted my appetite for more learning. It was but natural I would choose to take up manufacturing engineering as a career choice when I joined