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Personal Essay: A Long Journey In Engineering College

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A Long Journey

Through all my life I discovered a lot of things about myself. I am a very stubborn person who hardly gives up and will do everything to achieve my goals. I also love practicing sports and most of the subjects I learned in school. More specifically, I really like Math and Physics. My father told me that I wanted to work with something related to these two subjects. I should be an engineer, just like him. So I did a little research on engineering colleges in the United States and I really related to one, the MIT. There is where I want to be five years from now.
I know it is impossible to predict the future. I don’t know what is going to happen five seconds from now, let alone what is going to happen five years hereafter. Yet, I know exactly what I would like to be doing. I can easily say that I 'm an exact science person. I enjoy solving math problems and logic puzzles. I also like working in computers and anything related to technology. I want to be a very good engineer someday, so I want to study and work with subjects and matters I appreciate. That is why I expect to be in the MIT after I graduate from …show more content…

This goal is also my dream, and here is what I am doing and what I will do to complete it. To achieve this I am focusing on getting a high GPA at school, preparing for the new SAT and also doing some extracurricular activities. I will soon need to start researching the colleges so I can select which ones I will apply to. I hope that by working hard at school and putting my best effort in the application process I will get accepted to a good university. This will really help me in my future, because if I ever dream about being a great engineer, it is of the utmost importance that I graduate from a top engineering school. I am confident that I have a strong background and that I am worthy of any college I decide to attend. In my case, it would be the MIT, a highly selective

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