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My career goals are to be a young entrepreneur with an electrical engineering degree, but ultimately my career goal is to become a successful businessman. Attending MIT’s MITES program can help with becoming a prosperous engineer. This program could instill valuable skills that I will need in order to become a successful businessman. Skill such as studying, time-management and problem solving, are all skills that I could attain from MITES that will ultimately help support my goals. MITES program can improve my social skills and could better prepare me for becoming an electrical engineer. Being a junior in high school has taught me the importance of being ahead of the curve. Attending programs such as MITES could prove to be useful for any junior high school student with the goal of having an engineering degree like myself. MITES can introduce me to a different group a people, people with similar goals as I. Being with a diverse group of people can help me with becoming familiar with different ethnic backgrounds, and could also be used as a resource or even expand my resources. This engineering program can give me an opportunity to become familiar with present and future engineers. It could give me the experience needed to become successful in college and life. My career goals are important to me; it will help me live comfortable in the future. Joining a program like MITES could push me in the right direction with trying to get a degree in electrical engineer and could give me the edge I need with trying to become successful; it is also a confidence booster. Knowing that you have an opportunity to be a part of an engineering program that only a select few of students can join is great for my college applications.

volunteering at the YMCA is most important to me because I get a chance to help other people. This also is my favorite activity because not only do I get a chance to help people but it also gives me a bit of work experience that I will need. This could help get jobs and also help get in college which is extremely important to me as it can help me accomplish my goal of becoming successful business man in life. Volunteering their gives me customer service experience because I encounter different types of people every day. Having this interaction with other people exposes me to a more varietal society, being that I go to a predominately black school. Volunteering helps me build a networking circle, people that have worked and is working in field of technology can give me great advice on what I should and should not do. Other than helping the community volunteering helps build a person's character. My personal experiences while volunteering at the YMCA have been great! Recently the YMCA held an food drive for the homeless. It have influenced me greatly, before volunteering their my work ethic was awfully weak. My attitude towards people was not the same either. Before I was not as concerned about other people's well being, but after giving my time and help to the community I realized how much of a impact I had a people. Just by giving a little time out my day to help those who need it brightens up their day. It gave me a understanding about just how easy my generation have it. People were very great full for my efforts and overall it made me a better person. Volunteering at the YMCA has done quite a few things for me and my persona.

My aspirations has been influenced greatly by my racial or ethnic identity. It has motivated me to do better than the people in my environment and achieve a higher means of success. By seeing so many of my peers and fellow classmates hardships and struggles I have been mentally influenced to succeed in life and achieve my career goals. I have become more involved with my academics, extracurricular activities, volunteering, helping the community and overall my life's plan. I was surrounded by family who have achieved higher education specifically in the field of engineering. I've been in active discussions with teachers, counselors, and parents about what I plan to do with my life. I finally came up with wanting to major in electrical engineering. I was influenced by watching others who were successful and motivated to achieve greatness. My racial or ethnic identity has affected my academic development in more ways than one, mainly in a positive way. Coming from a generation of parents whose parents were not allowed to go to a integrated school and hearing their stories about their struggle with racial lines. Their stories had a powerful impact on me. I was recently told a story about my aunt's struggle with racism, she was a scholar and had many honors in a school that was once segregated in the south. She received many scholarships to go to predominately white schools because of the encounter she experienced with racism. This has encouraged me to work harder and do better in academics, this has driven me to excel in everything that I do. There is only one generation in my family that either did not attend college or did not finish college, I have been motivated to do better.

I have faced personal, social and academic challenges throughout my life and have overcome them. My most noticeable and harshest challenges stemmed from my academics. As a child I attended Ambassador Baptist Church Christian School and National Christian Academy. There I learned knowledge that was more advanced than the public schools I attended, including my high school. Attending those private schools helped me become organized and focused on school work. After leaving private school in 8th grade and went to Isaac J. Gourdine (Public School) my work ethic was weekend by my surroundings. The learning environment there was much different than that of my previous schools. My classrooms were not controlled and the teachers were not as commendable. I was hindered, suppressed and forced to learn on the same level and pace as my uncontrolled class. My study habits were not up to par as they usually were and my grades reflected it. My grades were never low, but they were lower in public school than they were in private. In my private school I maintained an "B" or above and in public school I maintained an "C" or above. I went from always being on the honor roll and Deans list, to making honor roll every other quarter. In my freshmen and sophomore year in high school (Friendly Senior High school) I faced a challenge that was similar to the one I faced in middle school , but was in fact different. My challenge was trying to have fun with my friends. Instead of pushing myself to work harder towards my future goals and focusing on my school work I was focusing on having a social life and only did as much work as I needed to pass the class. Now in my junior year I realize what is important in life and focusing more on my academics as well as the community. I also realize what I now need to accomplish in school in order for me to become a successful engineer.
If I could invent, innovate or develop anything to change the world for the better it would be to enhance medicine in today’s society. I want to create a pill that will cure all infections, diseases, or illnesses of any sort. I want to develop a pill that cures cancer, because each year millions of people are diagnosed with some form of cancer. each year businesses and corporations donate money to breast cancer, they even show their love and respect for people with breast cancer by having "Breast Cancer Awareness" during the month of October. Many people wear pink and the breast cancer awareness symbol to show their love for those with breast cancer. My plan to cure cancer will be full proof, anybody will be able to attain it and it will be affordable for upper class, middle class, lower class. The money raised from breast cancer awareness will fund the pills for anyone in need of them. I want to cure cancer not just because it kills thousands of people each year, but because it can be passed down genetically. Children that are born with the high risk of getting cancer do not have a chance to experience life to its fullest potential. They will not get a chance to see what they will become or will not be able to live out their dreams. With the shortened life span they will also struggle with having cancer, they will constantly have to go back and forth from the hospital and their treatment. This is simply unfair because people do not get to choose the family that they are born into and to be born into a predicament that you have no control of is intolerable for me. My American dream is to have financial stability and equality for all.