Personal Statement: Motivation To Pursue Science

Motivation to Pursue Science: From the time that I was in the fourth grade, I knew the career path that I wanted to pursue. At a young age, I was inspired by roller coasters, so much in fact that I was often get scolded for doodling them in my notebooks during class time. I think that a lot of my inspiration had to do with my mother because I will never forget the morning that she woke me up to go to Hershey Park. My whole family was “playing hooky” that day and she had such excitement in her voice when she was waking me up to tell me about the Wild Cat, which is a wooden rollercoaster in the park. Most children at this age tell their teachers that they would like to become a firefighter, a teacher, a doctor, or maybe a veterinarian. However, I would promptly and proudly tell my teachers that I wanted to become an architect when I grew up. As I grew up, I realized that architects do not design rollercoasters, but engineers do. Furthermore, my economic insight grew as well, and I discovered that the job market for rollercoaster designers was not all that high in a demand. However, I will get into how I chose my career …show more content…
The Capstone Design conference is held at Penn State Harrisburg, and allows senior engineering students to showcase projects that they have worked on throughout the course of their senior year. This conference also doubles as a competition amongst all of the engineering students on campus. During the course of my capstone project, I worked with five other senior civil engineering students, to innovate an original design concept for our campus. Our design concept was a three story parking facility, that would serve to alleviate the issues that our campus has with parking due to rapid growth in enrollment. On the day of the conference, we presented our project concept, and received third place out of sixty-six projects that were presented on that