ajwhite321
Aug 1, 2011
Undergraduate / "Interest in Weather"-How Education will help achieve personal and professional goals [3]
This is the rough draft for my application essay. Just looking for any critiques or anything to help make it better
As long as I can remember I have always been interested in the weather. I can remember
waking up early in the morning just to sit and watch the weather channel for hours on end.
I love just sitting outside and watching the clouds or when the storms come rolling
through. By the age of 6 or 7 I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life studying
and forecasting the weather. To this day I still love observing the weather and trying to
make my own predictions on what will happen.
A Purdue education would achieve my personal goals of working with the National Weather
Service and becoming a meteorologist. Purdue has an excellent atmospheric sciences program
and after meeting with a few students on a visit I was convinced that Purdue gave me the
best opportunity to succeed in becoming a meteorologist. My professional goals are to pursue an atmospheric science degree and then to either continue and work towards a masters degree in the same area or to begin working with the National Weather Service or another forecasting organization.
A Purdue education would also achieve a lifelong goal of becoming a Purdue graduate. My family is filled with Purdue graduates and they have all told me stories of great times spent on campus and at the Cary Quad dormitories. I hope to continue this legacy of going to Purdue and to have my own stories to share. When I first heard about Purdue from my family members I already was interested in the weather but I had no idea that Purdue had an atmospheric science program. I was overjoyed when I found out a few years later that I was going to have the opportunity to pursue my career goals and continue the legacy of going to Purdue.
This is the rough draft for my application essay. Just looking for any critiques or anything to help make it better
As long as I can remember I have always been interested in the weather. I can remember
waking up early in the morning just to sit and watch the weather channel for hours on end.
I love just sitting outside and watching the clouds or when the storms come rolling
through. By the age of 6 or 7 I knew I wanted to spend the rest of my life studying
and forecasting the weather. To this day I still love observing the weather and trying to
make my own predictions on what will happen.
A Purdue education would achieve my personal goals of working with the National Weather
Service and becoming a meteorologist. Purdue has an excellent atmospheric sciences program
and after meeting with a few students on a visit I was convinced that Purdue gave me the
best opportunity to succeed in becoming a meteorologist. My professional goals are to pursue an atmospheric science degree and then to either continue and work towards a masters degree in the same area or to begin working with the National Weather Service or another forecasting organization.
A Purdue education would also achieve a lifelong goal of becoming a Purdue graduate. My family is filled with Purdue graduates and they have all told me stories of great times spent on campus and at the Cary Quad dormitories. I hope to continue this legacy of going to Purdue and to have my own stories to share. When I first heard about Purdue from my family members I already was interested in the weather but I had no idea that Purdue had an atmospheric science program. I was overjoyed when I found out a few years later that I was going to have the opportunity to pursue my career goals and continue the legacy of going to Purdue.
