College Admissions Essay: Solar Energy

Improved Essays
Learning is very important to me and I take the opportunity to go to college very seriously. Learning has always played a significant role in my life. Not only in school, but also outside of it, I have strived to learn more whether it be about space or the stock market. I know where I want to go in life and an Engineering degree from Texas A&M would only be the beginning. Primarily, my interest lies in sustainable power sources for the future of mankind, but more specifically solar energy. Solar power interests me because it has the most potential for the future. Thinking of how to improve already successful products and investigating the inner workings of electronics is what I have always enjoyed. The main problem I want to work on in my lifetime

Related Documents

  • Improved Essays

    I could hear the constant chatter of the teams solving problems, parents giving advice, and judges evaluating. Then, I picked it up and looked into its lifeless eyes as it looked back at me. “Let’s do this!” I said. As the judges approached, a nostalgic memory hit me… ...…

    • 400 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Drew Preston Case Study

    • 212 Words
    • 1 Pages

    Many scholars go to universities to get a degree but sometimes, the ride is more important. Drew Preston, a junior at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln doesn’t answer the question of what he wants to do in the future because there are too many choices. “Don’t plan a concrete future because you never know what may happen,” Preston said. Covering music or even writing about politics, these are his dreams. After an interview over the phone with John Teti, the editor of The Onion, Drew discovered that he could get an interview from anyone.…

    • 212 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    To be successful, to be intelligent, to be a change. Those are the three main reasons I want to attend college. In this day and age, many jobs require a higher level of education to be able to work. Those jobs that don’t require a degree, depend upon more manual labor, backbreaking work and lower wages. I would rather remain in school longer, expand my knowledge, and get a career on everything I have learned, than go straight to the work field to earn less and do more.…

    • 1049 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Pre-Experience Journal Entry I was born to be an engineer. I grew up playing math games, building lego sets, and taking apart electronics. My Senior Capstone Experience (SCE) will definitely be in the area of engineering. More specifically, I would love to do either computer science or electrical engineering, as these are the areas I want to major in when I go to college. I came to GSMST because I have always had an interest in engineering, and GSMST has only made that interest stronger.…

    • 736 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    College is a place to advance education, and I would utilize that education to get to the next level of helping a greater population in the future. My primary study is a Biology degree. After a long, well-thought out process, my deepest desire is to attend medical school and work as a Surgeon. Even though the road is a long process, the persistency to start modifying and making a difference to affect my community is being done now and will be during…

    • 497 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Waterbury Career Academy

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages

    Attending Waterbury Career Academy Waterbury Career Academy High School will help benefit me in my future success because it will help me to pursue my desired career, prepare me for college, and it will inspire me to do other things later in my life. I have had some experience with working with some machines and the safety requirements. My technology education teacher, Ms. Foulds, took a small group of students into the workshop and we used machines and learned specific safety requirements. She has also taught us great tips on computers and skills that I would take with me to college – such as finger placement when typing.…

    • 672 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Ehr 1000 Research Paper

    • 235 Words
    • 1 Pages

    My view on ENGR 1000 During my first freshman semester as a student of UCONN, my point of view of what is like to be an engineer haven’t change at all. I took the class ENGR 1000 because it was part of the curriculum to graduate as an engineer, but it was also intended to give clues and ideas of the different areas that are within the engineer field. I learned some useful things with my professor, but also from my peers. Even do the majority of my class wanted to become computer/system engineers, I and everyone in the class of ENGR 1000 shared many similarities when it comes to knowledge and the use of technology as a tool to solve real world problem, and build things that would help the whole humanity today and in the near future. One…

    • 235 Words
    • 1 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Discuss your reasons for pursuing the Major/Academic Program selected above? Engineering I want to endeavor on an educational path of engineering because I am fascinated by its concepts and applications. I want to learn everything I can because I believe knowledge is the most powerful attribution.…

    • 854 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Opportunity to Success I am not born to a rich family that has everything I want and need and clearly I am not born with any amazing skills either. I am just a normal person who is lucky enough to receive the wonderful opportunity of a formal education in America. Despite my family’s lack of English language skills and the limitations of my family’s resources, I have been able to navigate myself through the American educational system. With hard work, many hours of studying and dedication to school, I have found success in high school in just four years of speaking English. However, my hard work is not over yet.…

    • 662 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    I love spending my free time with my family and doing fun activities with them. My goal in life is to be able to help people or animals who are helpless. A lot of people go to college for careers that make substantial incomes, but I want a meaningful career where I can make a difference in peoples’ lives. This makes me more and more excited to attend college…

    • 387 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Ever since I was young, I have been exposed to graduate school labs. My father dedicated his life, passion, and determination to his emotional engineering research and students. I grew up watching my father formulate innovative hypotheses and implement them in real-life engineering systems; from these observations, I have grown my own passion and determination to achieve something similar in my future. I pursued my education in engineering in college, and although my grades in my initial years were not excellent, I have matured as a student and followed my studies seriously by challenging myself with difficult technical courses. Overall, my undergraduate studies enabled me to discover the specific field that I was most interested in: dynamics and biomedical engineering.…

    • 485 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    A Career In High School

    • 397 Words
    • 2 Pages

    As a Freshman at Jones College Prep, one of the top three most prestigious high schools in the state; I was part of the Career and Technical Education Program. This allowed me the opportunity to choose between the Engineering and Pre- Law programs provided at my school. My interest in math and science pushed me to pursue a path in Engineering. Knowing that I will be able to positively impact someone’s life through this career made it all the more compelling.…

    • 397 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The houses all look the same in my neighborhood. Each person inside, however, is one in seven billion. My town and its diversity have taught me many lessons about society, but two groups have taught me the most in life: my parents and the FRC community. My parents worked to give me a prosperous life, and their actions rippled into the opportunities I have today.…

    • 501 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I came to college both to further my education and my career goals. While furthering my education I will be gaining knowledge that is pertinent to my interests and my future career. In today’s society it is hard to get ahead with out any further education beyond high school, almost every field requires a degree now days. With out a degree a person would not have the needed skills or experience for most chosen careers. In order to be a competitive candidate in todays job market one needs marketable skills, which include a higher education.…

    • 841 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    1. Recent studies like these shed new light on wind and solar energy, which previous studies had not addressed. Wind energy is one of the fastest-growing aspects of renewable energy in the United States. The wind generates electricity by turning the blades of turbines.…

    • 813 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays