Undergraduate / I dont need force to keep moving - extra-curricular activities [6]

Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals.

Lights, wires, many different switches whose labels were no longer comprehensible, a mirror on the back, and layers and layers of webs created by a small spider. That's what I saw when I took apart the television and looked inside its frame. The curiosity, though not completely relieved had to be put aside, for I could not do anything else with the old television, though I did manage to figure out the function of many parts of the old television.

My curiosity of the world and all that belonged to it stemmed from my thirst for knowledge and the pure resentment of not knowing. And it is these qualities that have led me to aspire to become an engineer. As I grew older, I became more and more aware of opportunities to learn, taking things apart and putting things back together. Even today, I take apart every pen I can, comparing one with another, looking for even the minutest of differences. I would immediately seize each opportunity with their arrival, no matter the difficulty. I realized that the path I was to take would not be an easy one.

And soon enough, I was given an opportunity to take physics, a class meant for seniors, as a sophomore. I signed up without hesitation, fully expecting a class that was far more difficult than any other class I have yet taken. Despite spending many late nights studying, I experienced many failures, unable to grasp the concepts being taught; however, I kept studying, intensifying my research on what I did not understand and eventually I was able to connect one concept with another. By the end of the year I no longer needed to just memorize what to do to solve a certain problem, but instead I understood how each formula was used, allowing me to apply my knowledge of the formulas and concepts, and ultimately succeeding in the class, not only achieving a good grade which most were unable to accomplish, but also gaining an abundance of knowledge I did not have prior to takin this class. After taking this class, I came to the realization that I thoroughly enjoy physics, as I was able to gain new experiences and knowledge that I strove for as throughout my life. In fact, it came to me as a shock that the reason cars didn't go flying off curves in a highway was actually due to the friction of the road, or that in spending hours typing or writing an essay, no work was technically being done. I cannot wait to expand my knowledge even further in my senior year, when I yet again get another opportunity to take a more advanced physics class more focused on mechanical and electrical aspects of engineering.

Aside from education, I also dedicated myself to swimming, which I started in freshman year. Although I was initially one of the slowest members of the team, placing last in whatever event I was placed in, the thought of giving up never occurred to me. I remember only thinking that I had to work harder, get stronger, and get faster. Allowing the frustrations of failure fuel my motivation, I swam everyday working ten times as hard as everyone else in the pool just too barely make the intervals that the other swimmers seemed to make with ease. Swimming and lifting weights to the point of collapse each and every day, I slowly improved. By the end of junior year, I was able to compete and place in the finals of the regional swim meet, with a time in my 100 yard freestyle that was almost 20 seconds faster than when I first started swimming.

With these experiences, I know that I can break the current laws of physics figuratively and literally, because even without being forced, I will continually move forward, constantly improving, working better and faster, never a stagnant moment in my life. I will achieve one goal after and eventually change the world of engineering.

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