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A & M Personal Statement

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In my last two years of high school, I worked part time at Kroger. After one month of working as a cashier, my manager recognized my leadership and quick learning abilities and promoted me to customer service. From there, I took on more responsibilities and received another promotion to manager of all of the front end operations of the store. I also took a course to become a pharmacy technician and interned at a Walgreens pharmacy for a semester.
Throughout high school, I challenged myself by taking Advanced Placement math and science courses, such as chemistry, physics, and calculus. These classes jump started my interest in pursuing a STEM related career. I also had the opportunity to take an Introduction into Engineering and an Engineering …show more content…

CASTLE is a leadership organization and our philanthropy is Lemonade Day, where elementary students build a business through a lemonade stand. I mentored a child and helped them create their own lemonade stand, which was a very rewarding experience and I cannot wait to do it next year. I was also excited to be a colonizing member of Alpha Omicron Pi and I helped to establish the organization through recruitment and fundraising for the Arthritis Foundation, while forming a sisterhood here at A&M.

If I was unsure about my pursuit of engineering before I came to A&M, I was completely convinced I made the right decision to become an engineer after taking chemistry with Dr. Tak Leung. He often related his personal research to the topics he was teaching. This professor solidified my interest in engineering and research. He spoke about his humorously failed experiments and the impressively successful ones that led to several patents, which persuaded me to want to go above and beyond to learn and improve on complex engineering problems or even the most basic things.
This summer I will be taking PHYS 208 at Texas A&M as well a Creative

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