College Admissions Essay: A Career As A Mechanical Engineer

Throughout my childhood, my parents constantly had to deal with me deconstructing different machines and devices just so I could put it back together again. Being able to take a machine apart and rebuild it is a feeling that I have accomplished a goal even though I just put the parts in the same place where they were before. I was good at math because math is the language of numbers and is communicated similarly throughout the world, regardless of the language. However, engineering needs a lot of math to do programming, physics and other science courses. I realized mechanical engineering was not an easy major; it needs a lot of hard work, adaptability, patience and ambition. As a child, I started loving automobiles and all

I am confident that there is inventions that have not been discovered yet in this world that would help us make day-to-day life easier. Sometimes when I sit by myself, I wonder if I could create an invention for the complex problems we face in our daily life; I believe that I am able to create one, but I am not fully aware of the problem I need to fix yet. As a well-focused and creative individual, I am positive about becoming a creative and valuable part of the global team working to develop and improve the process of engineering. In my career, I am most interested in increasing the efficiency of designing machines and manufacturing through technology to expand the creativity and productivity. I believe that success, as an engineer in these days, requires technical competence and a combination of management, leadership, communication and business skills. My parents were a big part of me choosing mechanical engineering. My father did not finish college because he had to get a job at a young age, and my mother got married when she was in college, so she had to take off and live with my father. They were encouraging and constantly inspiring me to be the first one to get a college degree in my