College Admissions Essay: How Technology Changed My Life

I remember pushing a button on my Nintendo Gameboy and being amazed at how this little piece of technology worked. I would be moving my character around the screen with a smile on my face. The emotion I felt was pure joy. However, it was only recently that I realized that I wanted to do something to create these kinds of experiences for people to enjoy just like myself. As I grew older I realized that in order to create these types of experience I would need a degree in computer science, and from there I realized that I could do a lot more with this knowledge. “I could make more than games”, I said to myself. I realized that I could create programs that could help save patients’ lives. I could make the car they’re driving even safer. I could make all these things and still provide people with the smile I had on my face when I was …show more content…
When I was in high school I honestly didn’t know what I wanted to do. I always knew I liked computers but, when I was freshman I never really thought about making it into a career. In high school I really didn’t have a goal I wanted to attain because I really didn’t know what I wanted to be. So without a goal, I really didn’t have a drive to do well in school. Fast forward to the middle of junior year and my group of friends would be discussing what we wanted to after high school. I would be left out from these discussions because my lack of knowing what I wanted to do. So at that point I decided that I would take a look into what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Then after a couple of nights, thinking about the future, I would always come back to my childhood of playing my Gameboy. That was the moment I knew that wanted to become a programmer and make video games that made me smile. However, after even more research I found out that there are a lot more opportunities in that field which essentially gave me a safety net if making video games didn’t work