Jlee327
Oct 28, 2014
Undergraduate / "Did you make that?" "Yeah, I did." - UIUC Explain your interest in the major you selected. [2]
Explain your interest in the major you selected. You may describe a related experience you've had to that area of study and/or your future career goals. Please limit your response to approximately 300 words.
"Did you make that?" Four simple words, but string them together and they hold a whole different meaning for me. As I stare at the glowing, blue figure of Xerath, I stop and think about the question for a second. Such a simple question, and yet it forces me to look at a product that could bring such amazement to others and think, "Did I really make that?" The reason I have to pause is because that question makes me think about everything that went into my project. It makes me think back to the first spark of an idea, to the moment I first created a simple box-- a box that will soon become something more. It makes me remember all of the headaches I had to go through, ranging from program failures to losing save files. It makes me think about "the sigh;" the most relieving sigh you can imagine. The sigh that comes with putting the final touch to a project. The same sigh that leaves your body, carrying the weight of all the time and stress you put into this, all the hair pulling, the late nights, everything. I chose to major in Mechanical Engineering because of the journey that I go through with each and every project I do. It's an indescribable feeling to look at a finished model and think back to everything that took place in this particular journey. As with every journey, majoring in Mechanical Engineering will hold trials and triumphs, but finishing the journey lets me take a deep breath, puff up my chest and say, "Yeah, I did."
Explain your interest in the major you selected. You may describe a related experience you've had to that area of study and/or your future career goals. Please limit your response to approximately 300 words.
"Did you make that?" Four simple words, but string them together and they hold a whole different meaning for me. As I stare at the glowing, blue figure of Xerath, I stop and think about the question for a second. Such a simple question, and yet it forces me to look at a product that could bring such amazement to others and think, "Did I really make that?" The reason I have to pause is because that question makes me think about everything that went into my project. It makes me think back to the first spark of an idea, to the moment I first created a simple box-- a box that will soon become something more. It makes me remember all of the headaches I had to go through, ranging from program failures to losing save files. It makes me think about "the sigh;" the most relieving sigh you can imagine. The sigh that comes with putting the final touch to a project. The same sigh that leaves your body, carrying the weight of all the time and stress you put into this, all the hair pulling, the late nights, everything. I chose to major in Mechanical Engineering because of the journey that I go through with each and every project I do. It's an indescribable feeling to look at a finished model and think back to everything that took place in this particular journey. As with every journey, majoring in Mechanical Engineering will hold trials and triumphs, but finishing the journey lets me take a deep breath, puff up my chest and say, "Yeah, I did."
