Personal Narrative: My View Of Embry-Riddle

After research and a recent visit, my view of Embry-Riddle is clear. The school has a strong interest in its students, allowing every student to graduate with the certainty that they are capable of applying their skills to engineer the world. Embry-Riddle can be compared to the SystemsGo competition, being that both parties serve students in order to assure their success. The competition helped me to identify my major, leadership skills, and my college. The program has also set up a foundation for my future curriculum that I am going to apply to my classes in the fall. Having a family of engineers, engineering has always been my parents’ desired path for me. I always have had an interest in the occupation, but I never truly felt the confidence
needed to seek an engineering degree. During my first year of physics, I grew very fond of the certainty that can be found in mathematics. This awareness sparked drive in me to become an engineer and, when it came time to pick my senior year classes, I picked aeroscience with the intentions that it would give me an idea of my capabilities in the engineering field. At the end of the year, our aeroscience class builds a rocket measuring ten feet tall. Our class takes the rocket to the SystemsGo competition in an effort to reach an apogee of one mile. Being involved with the SystemsGo competition, I was able to combine an enticing mix of my passions; problem solving, and competition. The SystemsGo competition has given me the morale to pursue an engineering degree. Furthermore, the competition has introduced me to aeronautics, which triggered my decision to study aerospace engineering specifically. The program is also what acquainted me to Embry-Riddle. The competition has even helped me get involved with more service opportunities, which is an irreplaceable value. In retrospect, the SystemsGo competition has truly changed my life.
As a team captain to my organization's rocket for SystemsGo, I have been able to learn the leadership skills that will be used in my future college classroom and occupation. The program has also laid out a foundation for my future studies and career by introducing the process of rocket assembly. I plan to take my knowledge, gained through experience in the SystemsGo program, and apply it to my studies at Embry-Riddle’s college of engineering, with the desire to produce distinguished results on given projects.
I envision Embry-Riddle as an institution that is focused on helping its students achieve and establish a higher standard of research and academics. With the insight given to me by my involvement in SystemsGo, along with the expertise of Embry-Riddle’s faculty and alma mater, I will enact a superior standard.