Undergraduate / The moment I laid eyes on my surroundings in Bangladesh, it sparked something inside me. SOP [7]

The moment I laid eyes on my surroundings in Bangladesh, it sparked something inside me. Taking in the poverty, amount of people on the streets, and the poor infrastructure, it truly made me think that I want to someday change the urban environment for the better and my people. This is what drove me to want to become a civil engineer so that I could learn on improving infrastructure, specifically structural things. Seeing the building not being structured toward the frequent flooding there and the unsafe designs of the building made me want to be able to improve those things so that people could have safe living and have faith in the structures protecting them. I knew that I could achieve those goals at Texas A&M University. It is one of the best schools for civil engineering, has an amazing campus and traditions. It was my top school that I wanted to attend and I want to be able to transfer there as I can see myself graduating there with my engineering degree.

My parents are immigrants that came here from Bangladesh and were able to work themselves up and became successful through hard work yet they did not go to high school or graduate from college here. Therefore I was the first one to go through American high school without guidance, doing what I though was right at the time. This whole background was my foundation to working hard throughout high school. I took almost every AP credit class and gained college credit in most of my classes, as I wanted to be as prepared for college as I could be. However I was not able to make into A&M for engineering, which absolutely crushed me and made me want to give up. I went through a period of time where I was just depressed about not making it in, always relenting on about what I could have done better in high school. That whole experience allowed me to grow more as person and have a completely different outlook on looking back in the past and life in general. I realized that people don't always succeed but it's what they do when they are faced with obstacle that they are able to reach as high as they want too. How they look at it as an opportunity in improvement in one's self and to most importantly keep you motivated. I developed a fire in me to work hard and give it my all-next year in order to transfer, and it is only after I studied and tried my best that I would be content with work ethic and myself.

I know that I can fulfill my full potential at Texas A&M and give it my all there to be successful in my major and for my family. I know that I can challenge myself at this institution and reach my career goals of becoming a civil engineer that can help improve our society here and later in other countries for the people of this world. I want to be able to attend the best university in Texas and where I was born in: Texas A&M at College station. Thank you for your time and consideration.