Scholarship / Scholarship essay for graduate study in electrical engineering [3]

Submit an essay (250 words maximum) explaining how this award will assist your ability to receive an education and indicate your career and personal goals.

Electrical Engineering

Scholarships, particularly for ambitious students like myself, would help achieve the goal for studying in USA; a better, qualitative education with broad knowledge of the subjects. The scholarship would provide me more time to concentrate on my studies rather than me needing to earn money to pay for my tuition and living expenses. It also strengthens my opportunity to add multiple courses to my study and increase my credit hours, which, without scholarship, I would not be able to pay. Provided the fact that the scholarship is free money, it would reduce my financial stress during and after completion of the courses. I would not have do minimum-wage jobs to repay (as in case of loans) the scholarship which would give me plenty of time to prepare for my further education (a PhD).

I believe I'm very ambitious; I want to bring changes to the education and energy scenario in my country as an adept electrical engineer. My one and only personal goal is to provide freshly graduated electrical engineers the opportunities that I was deprived of; the opportunity to attend graduate school at low cost with plenty of room for research and development (related to electrical engineering). I also want to build my career towards a power system researcher and a research instructor and eventually establish my own research department under Nepal government (Nepal electricity authority) which will ultimately help realize my life long objective.

Graduate / The pain of losing friends. Setback/opportunity/challenge - 250 words only. [11]

jealous friends

I was good at studies, and always stood first in class too, and teachers were proud of me, but does that make me hateful? It was in grade ten that I came to know how spiteful your friends become just because they are jealous of you, especially when they are your best friends sharing the same bench in the same classroom. I was a good friend to all of my classmates, but there were four boys, in particular, who I was very close to. We were the most talkative, noise-making group in our class. While I enjoyed my friend's company, I failed to notice how I had inadvertently made them jealous of me; not until they confronted me, one day. That day I got to know how they hated me, for they thought I was the root cause why they were not getting good grades, and why teachers were not paying them as much attention as I was getting. They accused me that I was in their group simply to hamper their study.

I was heartbroken that day. I had lost four of my best friends. It saddens me to this day, but it made me realize that I need to be more considerate towards people around me. I learned that you don't need an hour to lose your friends that you worked years to gain, so I would lay my life on line if that's what it takes because I know the pain of losing friends and I don't ever want to feel it again. Never!