Personal Statement
Hiking Cascades with my dad
An old military adage that my dad has recited to me hundreds of times is to mind my 7 p’s. The 7 p’s adage stands for
Proper Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performanceand it is something that always enters my mind before embarking on a new task. The 7p’s adage is just one example of how the people around have helped to mold me into the person I am today.
My high school physics teacher gave me one of the most precious gifts I have a received, the gift of a burning curiosity. My physics teacher taught an elective course on engineering. While taking this course I was able to build simple circuits on bread boards, create remote controlled robots and I even helped build a gauss cannon. Through these hands on experiences I became fascinated in how things work and how I could make them work even better. This burning desire to understand and improve the world around me is what has drawn me into engineering.
Watching VT football with my girlfriend
Life is a sequence of moments and I have had the great fortune of experiencing some really great moments in my life. I have been felt the sensation of free fall while ski diving, seen the beauty of nature as I hiked yellow stone national park, felt the happiness of walking across a stage and receiving my college diploma and tasted delicious new foods while traveling. The people I was able to share these experiences with is what makes them so special. My heart still flutters when I think of the warm embrace with my girlfriend after we safely landed our parachutes. I can’t help but crack a smile when I think back about the long nights studying with friends for a big exam. There is no greater joy then the collective experience and I look forward to sharing many more challenging, scary, exciting and wonderful moments with old and new friends.
