College Admissions Essay: How Technology Changed My Life

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Technology has power to not only impacts masses at large but it also brings small joy and comfort in day to day life of people. I was a kid when an uneducated lady in my street would wait for hours to receive her husband’s mail, who was living abroad. Happiness was vivid in her eyes when mail man stopped by her house and read her the mail. Soon after, the era of technology took over, and the mobile revolution brought her the new way to communicate. She no more had to wait for the mail man, her husband was just a call away. The spark in her eyes was still the same but now with more comfort and ease. That’s when I experienced how technology can improve common people’s life phenomenally.
I got introduced to number of discoveries and innovations in school, that made today’s world possible. However on one side the science projects started catching my interest, poverty and on another side illiteracy in society saddened me. During
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Students of this college were smarter and more privileged than me in most aspects. Initially, I stumbled and had a steep learning curve to catch up with the overwhelming competition. But my perseverance paid off, I graduated with flying colors. The two important values, perseverance and hard work paid me off and I carry on these two values wherever I go.
Soon after that, my professors offered me a chance to work on a cutting edge research project. Simultaneously, I started taking interest in spectrum of extracurricular activities like students’ affairs, cultural and technical event management and athletics. I felt accomplished when my efforts brought campus wide Wi-Fi infrastructure and intra lab networks for the first time in college. This accomplishment instilled me with more enthusiasm to learn and implement new technologies. That’s when I decided to go for my master’s degree besides having financial