The ability to solve a problem of whatever size by the use of mathematical calculations and scientific equations is __________. (how about a more descriptive adjective? Is it something other than extraordinary? Is it comforting or empowering, for example?
At first, I massacred each object as any seven y
ear-ol d would, but...-----> ha ha, I like your use of massacred here, but it actually is not quite right. A massacre involves many, not each. Know what I mean?
I think the last sentence of the first paragraph should be like an arrow telling the reader the direction the essay is going. It should be like an indicator to tell the nature of the essay. The way you end your first para seems to conclude what you said in it, but the reader is still left wondering if this theme will be kept or not. I think you change the last sentence of the end of that para so that it announces the main idea of the essay, and the idea should be more specific than just
all gave me a early start of becoming an Engineering enthusiast.
You should use this sentence to announce the theme, the central truth of the essay, which might be something that enables the reader to think of math and engineering in a new way -- your personal philosophy of science.