Personal Statement

What interests you about your selected program of study?

Computer science has always been the aspect of study that has grabbed my attention from a young age. CS always created a sense of awe in me because of the fact that individual people, with a firm understanding of CS, could completely manipulate technology into whatever creation they wanted. In the same way an artist can paint on a canvas, computer scientist can create through code and each program carries a sense of the programmer with it. The more you learn about CS the more uses it gains, making it a tool that builds upon itself. Also in an ever advancing world those who study CS stand on the frontier of new advances for modern technology. I seek this understanding of CS to make myself into a person with the skills to be both a desired employee and a capable hobbyist in programing. So that I too can be like one those people who inspired me while

If I continue down the path of becoming a computer scientist I feel that I can truly be in a position that can affect the world with the programs I create and the work I do.

The motto at Georgia Tech is leadership, progress and service. Describe how you have demonstrated this motto over the past three years.

Going into college I gained a determination to better myself. I went about doing this by buckling down on my grades. The course work at UAH was not easy but to overcome these challenges I developed methods to make sure I was going into every class prepared. Along the way I started learning that I personally understand the material best when I study in a group, not when I study alone. In order to take advantage of the way I learned the most I would form study groups with my classmates and work through it with them. The majority of the time I would be the one organizing these study sessions because so I was automatically pushed into a kind of leadership position of sorts in