Personal Narrative: A Career As An Aerospace Engineer

I have always been interested in math, art, and science, and engineering seemed like the best way to incorporate all three into one. After taking some classes at my school's engineering academy, I began seeing engineering as fun, as well as an opportunity. I want to pursue aerospace engineering because it seems like the best fit for me and a good use of my talents.

My life has never really been hard. Sure there have been sleepless nights and stressful days that never seem to stop, but even when I'm staying up late to study or finish homework, I never felt like it was an obstacle I couldn't overcome. It wasn't until this past year that I truly encountered a hardship that didn't seem like it would go away. In March of this year my grandfather passed away at the age of . He was a nice old man, always …show more content…
When he passed away, I remember feeling like it was a joke, there was no possible way that he could be gone, but he was. Leaving the hospital with my mom and grandma that night was hard because when we arrived at my grandmother's house, everywhere you turned there was something that reminded me of him. He wasn't in a lot of the many pictures hanging in the house, but I knew that any picture he wasn't in, he took himself. He was an avid photographer and would rather take a picture than be in one, always standing just out of the range of vision. Now I guess that's how he'll always be, standing where we can't see him. I remember one of the last times I saw him. He was working at the BBQ place, singing one of his favorite George Jones songs. That restaurant was a dream of his, one he didn't get to see through until he was sixty years old. If there's one thing you can say about my grandpa it's that he never gave up on his dreams. No matter what age, he taught me that I can make anything