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Nov 21, 2010
Undergraduate / "I want to be different" - UC Personal Statement Prompt 1 [6]
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Prompt #2 Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
I received my first computer at the age of 8; it was also the start of my love for technology and the realization of a quality I didn't know I possessed. Setting up our new family computer was difficult; my mom tried just about everything to set it up but only got half way. Somehow, while I was toying around excitedly with our new computer I figured out how to actually "work it," having figured this all by myself my mom was impressed. This event was just the beginning of what would become my ambition to engineer technology.
Throughout the years I figured out I had a natural ability to program technology. Cell phones, TVs, computers, remote controls; I could program them with my eyes close (and without reading the instruction manual.) I was always being called upon by family and friends to fix and program their gizmos. Every time one of my family members or friends got a new cell phone I was the one they looked for. If they didn't know how to set up the remote control or the cable box, they relied on me. I absolutely loved messing with different forms of technology and at that point I knew I wanted to work in a field that dealt with technology.
Throughout high school I always wanted the newest gadgets, the first place I ran to when we went to Costco, Target, or Wal-Mart was the electronic center. I could spend hours there observing the newest technology and toying around with the newest cameras and the newest computers.
By this time I had my own laptop at home, I would spend hours "investigating" the different folders and where each destination went on my hard drive. I figured out how to download themes and change the appearance of my computer. After figuring this out my iPod was next, I "hacked" it and then continued on to change the appearance and how it worked. This all fascinated me, and I loved it. Junior year of high school I made up my mind: I wanted to become an engineer, not just any engineer, but a computer or software engineer. I know that is the field I would aspire in and where my heart is set on.
Help on revisions?
Prompt #2 Tell us about a personal quality, talent, accomplishment, contribution or experience that is important to you. What about this quality or accomplishment makes you proud and how does it relate to the person you are?
I received my first computer at the age of 8; it was also the start of my love for technology and the realization of a quality I didn't know I possessed. Setting up our new family computer was difficult; my mom tried just about everything to set it up but only got half way. Somehow, while I was toying around excitedly with our new computer I figured out how to actually "work it," having figured this all by myself my mom was impressed. This event was just the beginning of what would become my ambition to engineer technology.
Throughout the years I figured out I had a natural ability to program technology. Cell phones, TVs, computers, remote controls; I could program them with my eyes close (and without reading the instruction manual.) I was always being called upon by family and friends to fix and program their gizmos. Every time one of my family members or friends got a new cell phone I was the one they looked for. If they didn't know how to set up the remote control or the cable box, they relied on me. I absolutely loved messing with different forms of technology and at that point I knew I wanted to work in a field that dealt with technology.
Throughout high school I always wanted the newest gadgets, the first place I ran to when we went to Costco, Target, or Wal-Mart was the electronic center. I could spend hours there observing the newest technology and toying around with the newest cameras and the newest computers.
By this time I had my own laptop at home, I would spend hours "investigating" the different folders and where each destination went on my hard drive. I figured out how to download themes and change the appearance of my computer. After figuring this out my iPod was next, I "hacked" it and then continued on to change the appearance and how it worked. This all fascinated me, and I loved it. Junior year of high school I made up my mind: I wanted to become an engineer, not just any engineer, but a computer or software engineer. I know that is the field I would aspire in and where my heart is set on.
