will this make it ??? how about the ponctuation ?
The Personal Statement section is a critical part of your application for admission and is a required part of your admission file.
Please describe your educational plans and goals (maximum 650 words). You may wish to address the following topics when completing your personal statement:
What educational, personal or employment experiences have influenced your desire to complete your degree?
What are the main reasons you are choosing the program to which you are applying?
What are your long term plans/aspirations?
Anything else you would like the Admissions Committee to consider.
When I emigrated from Algeria in 2005, I had one idea in my mind: going back to school and getting a computer science degree. The same idea I had twelve years ago when I graduated from high school and went to the national institute of informatics , but the circumstances of a country edging a civil war during what was known as the black decade, prevented me from accomplishing my dream and I was forced to leave the institute before getting my engineering degree. My last job before coming to the United States helped me to better define what I wanted to be in my future. Starting as an inventory manager in an international computer distribution company, I quickly became the second technician in the company, where I had to assemble servers, pre-install software and help our clients choose what best fits their needs and budget. I also diagnosed hardware problems in both HP PCs and laptops, ordered spare parts and performed repairs. I Provide quality customer service and technical expertise by phone and email to dealers, Acted as back-up sales rep when necessary, assisting dealers to receive the best configuration and value. The three years spent in this company awakened my passion for programming when I had to interact with developers and programmers, and discover a world of creativity, imagination, logic and diversity.
As I began my collegiate studies here in Seattle, I had to restart all over again; but this did not hinder me from continuing my education and seeking a career I am passionate about. I enrolled and completed the prerequisite for a transfer while working a part time and sometimes a full time job. My intrinsic need to improve and search for advanced technology led me take a photovoltaic, energy audit and solar water heating classes offered at shoreline community college in order to rescue our vanishing construction business. I first was aiming to get into UW Seattle, but an instructor at Shoreline Community College advised me to choose UW Bothell, for a better environment, smaller classes and the opportunity to pursue the path towards PhD studies, as she knew my ambitions to go farther than a bachelor degree.
Being a native Berber speaker, and fluent in both Arabic and French helped me interact with different diversified cultures and have broadened my understanding of the world. Adding to the ability I gained through my multi-career path, my problem solving skills increased with the math and physics classes I took. My computer science classes started with MS DOS and Turbo Pascal back in 1994, and the last class I took was CSE143 at UW Seattle, which makes me somehow witness of the changes and evolvements of this technology through this time. This evolvement is expanding to reach all other fields and sciences. A computer science degree will provide me with a broad range of exciting career opportunities and I am particularly interested in using the skills gained at university in either research or industry, hence, my application to the CSS undergraduate program. I'm looking forward with great anticipation to the challenges that studying for a degree in computer science will bring.
The Personal Statement section is a critical part of your application for admission and is a required part of your admission file.
Please describe your educational plans and goals (maximum 650 words). You may wish to address the following topics when completing your personal statement:
What educational, personal or employment experiences have influenced your desire to complete your degree?
What are the main reasons you are choosing the program to which you are applying?
What are your long term plans/aspirations?
Anything else you would like the Admissions Committee to consider.
When I emigrated from Algeria in 2005, I had one idea in my mind: going back to school and getting a computer science degree. The same idea I had twelve years ago when I graduated from high school and went to the national institute of informatics , but the circumstances of a country edging a civil war during what was known as the black decade, prevented me from accomplishing my dream and I was forced to leave the institute before getting my engineering degree. My last job before coming to the United States helped me to better define what I wanted to be in my future. Starting as an inventory manager in an international computer distribution company, I quickly became the second technician in the company, where I had to assemble servers, pre-install software and help our clients choose what best fits their needs and budget. I also diagnosed hardware problems in both HP PCs and laptops, ordered spare parts and performed repairs. I Provide quality customer service and technical expertise by phone and email to dealers, Acted as back-up sales rep when necessary, assisting dealers to receive the best configuration and value. The three years spent in this company awakened my passion for programming when I had to interact with developers and programmers, and discover a world of creativity, imagination, logic and diversity.
As I began my collegiate studies here in Seattle, I had to restart all over again; but this did not hinder me from continuing my education and seeking a career I am passionate about. I enrolled and completed the prerequisite for a transfer while working a part time and sometimes a full time job. My intrinsic need to improve and search for advanced technology led me take a photovoltaic, energy audit and solar water heating classes offered at shoreline community college in order to rescue our vanishing construction business. I first was aiming to get into UW Seattle, but an instructor at Shoreline Community College advised me to choose UW Bothell, for a better environment, smaller classes and the opportunity to pursue the path towards PhD studies, as she knew my ambitions to go farther than a bachelor degree.
Being a native Berber speaker, and fluent in both Arabic and French helped me interact with different diversified cultures and have broadened my understanding of the world. Adding to the ability I gained through my multi-career path, my problem solving skills increased with the math and physics classes I took. My computer science classes started with MS DOS and Turbo Pascal back in 1994, and the last class I took was CSE143 at UW Seattle, which makes me somehow witness of the changes and evolvements of this technology through this time. This evolvement is expanding to reach all other fields and sciences. A computer science degree will provide me with a broad range of exciting career opportunities and I am particularly interested in using the skills gained at university in either research or industry, hence, my application to the CSS undergraduate program. I'm looking forward with great anticipation to the challenges that studying for a degree in computer science will bring.