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"gadgets and the world of technology" - essay for uiuc admission [4]
Essay for UIUC transfer , pl suggest changes,i've less than a few hours left to submit,i'm applying as an international transfer student
In an essay of 300 words or less, please discuss your academic interests and/or professional goals.I have always been fascinated by gadgets and the world of technology and am interested in knowing how things work.Ever since reading about the stories of Google, Apple ,Microsoft etc , I've always wanted to be an entrepreneur , a technology entrepreneur . Since then I learnt a few languages like Java , Python, Flex, VB.NET,C++ etc , disassembling applications and some ethical hacking . In my 10th grade , I wrote an open source browser called {...} in VB.NET . It has the feature of letting the user specify the transparency of the application windows and has been downloaded by over a hundred thousand users . I have completed around 80 to 90 challenges in popular hacking challenge sites on the web.I'm also interested in robotics , and have participated in a couple of competitions in my college, and how networks and communication systems work. In school, my favorite subjects have always been math and physics , this explains my interest in electrical engineering and computer science . I had appeared in the Joint Entrance Examination (JEE) of the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) in 2009 and had secured a rank of {3000} among 400,000 applicants and then joined the {...} choosing electronics engineering as my major . I would like to transfer to the University of Illinois as it is one of the best places to study electrical engineering and a place where I believe I can realize my dreams.
the {...}'s are just to remain anonymous