This paper examines the effects of sociological imagination, agency, and structure on my decision to select electrical engineering as my current major. Agency primarily focuses on my habits as an individual as well as my thought process toward mathematical and scientific issues presented to me. Structure focuses on the resources and techniques provided to me by society to aid in my judgement. Around the age of ten, I noticed that I developed habits that did not correlate to people who went on to pursue careers in humanities, education, journalism, or anything along those lines. I had a fondness for electronics and wondered how the internal structure of the appliance allowed for certain operations to function. The desire to learn how these
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Having attended a Catholic elementary school, I didn’t find it difficult to continue my education in a Catholic environment, having attended a Marist high school, and now a Lasallian college. Since there were no local colleges with an engineering discipline around my neighborhood in Queens, I thought it would be difficult to further my education in engineering. My guidance counselor, however, had connections with alumni and other religious orders, so he recommended Manhattan College to me. In elementary school and high school, Manhattan College was a name that resonated well with the faculties of both institutions, since they had children of their own who wanted to pursue a career in the different fields of engineering without losing the community that a Catholic college has to …show more content…
My mother did not went to college but she was a big part of my educational upbringing, she would go to the library and use the internet to do research about things my brother and I were interested in so we can gave them a try to see what career path we find interesting.My parents saw an opportunity for me to learn robotics through Cyber Camp, which was a summer program in 2009 that focused on different disciplines such as programming, game design, apps, robotics, web design, film, and photography. I was enrolled in the program for robotics, and learned how to program a robot using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3. By the end of the week, the program had taught me how to input and output functions to the robot using very intuitive software. I felt that my parents’ investment was an eye-opening educational experience. My mother often would say to me and my brother, “Tell me what you want to pursue in life and I will find the tool to help you get there”. All I had to do was my part, and she has never failed me. Surprisingly, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 had followed me to college as I took my intro to engineering course in the fall semester at Manhattan College, so I had familiarity with the program and how to input and output
Having attended a Catholic elementary school, I didn’t find it difficult to continue my education in a Catholic environment, having attended a Marist high school, and now a Lasallian college. Since there were no local colleges with an engineering discipline around my neighborhood in Queens, I thought it would be difficult to further my education in engineering. My guidance counselor, however, had connections with alumni and other religious orders, so he recommended Manhattan College to me. In elementary school and high school, Manhattan College was a name that resonated well with the faculties of both institutions, since they had children of their own who wanted to pursue a career in the different fields of engineering without losing the community that a Catholic college has to …show more content…
My mother did not went to college but she was a big part of my educational upbringing, she would go to the library and use the internet to do research about things my brother and I were interested in so we can gave them a try to see what career path we find interesting.My parents saw an opportunity for me to learn robotics through Cyber Camp, which was a summer program in 2009 that focused on different disciplines such as programming, game design, apps, robotics, web design, film, and photography. I was enrolled in the program for robotics, and learned how to program a robot using LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3. By the end of the week, the program had taught me how to input and output functions to the robot using very intuitive software. I felt that my parents’ investment was an eye-opening educational experience. My mother often would say to me and my brother, “Tell me what you want to pursue in life and I will find the tool to help you get there”. All I had to do was my part, and she has never failed me. Surprisingly, LEGO® MINDSTORMS® EV3 had followed me to college as I took my intro to engineering course in the fall semester at Manhattan College, so I had familiarity with the program and how to input and output