I’ve decided to pursue aerospace engineering as my career. My plan was always to pursue engineering, but I never completely pinpointed what kind of engineering that would be. Aerospace engineering interested because my second option would be to pursue aviation either for the Navy or commercial jobs. If that option doesn’t fall through, mechanical engineering would be the next best thing, preferably to work with cars. My general curiosity about how things work and my want to create things are what mainly pushed me to engineering. My dad is the person who taught me to wonder and think about these things so that I’m able to understand what works to help recreate and improve the world around me. I got into the actual topic of engineering after looking into what engineering actually was. I found that my school had been providing a class on engineering specifically and that pushed me to pursue that as a career. 

I’m currently taking an engineering 1 class for my first exposure and change to get experience to the subject. During the 2 year time I have in that class, I hope to learn most of the fundamentals of engineering so I can carry that over to a future job opportunity. The engineering program I've started should be one of the best ways to assist me in obtaining those opportunities in the form of an internship or any other position in the subject. Since I haven't had any real experience in the subject, I can only use my current math skills in my pre-calc class and AP lang class to assist me at the moment, but over time I should be able to gain more information that's useful for engineering. 

As of right now, my extracurricular activities consist of marching band, boyscouts, and special needs care at my church. Each of these activities help me develop skills like working as a team to accomplish something, being able to lead a group of people effectively, and knowing how to care for people in need. All of which I think should be useful in the communication aspect of an engineering team. Even though I haven’t been employed yet, I hope to find a job that can incorporate these skills so I can better develop them by using those skills in different scenarios and settings. 

After I graduate, I plan on going to a college in Texas and joining their engineering program for the entire 4 years. I could do just 2 years but I want to get as much hands-on experience and certification as possible to help increase the chances of me being chosen for a job that’s more impactful. I also would like to get experience by internships so I can learn and observe the work of real engineers. Another option would be to join the military naval academy and become an engineer in their facilities and such to work on military equipment or vehicles. 

I hope that once I get to becoming an engineer, I’ll be able to contribute to communities by helping the quality of life in the vehicles people will use to get places or improve home life for people. My hope is that I can influence society to keep imagining and wondering about the inner workings of the things around them so that other people can strive to improve the world like most other engineers do.  I hope to impact the world in ways that can improve the efficiency of systems or inventions, so that we can continue to evolve our way of life and to always improve on what came before. I hope that my impact on the world will end up being positive. All I’ve wanted to do was improve the world, not harm it, and this is where I think I can help the world the most while still being curious and insightful.