Scholarship Essay: Joining College For A Better Future

Joining College for a Better Future

Joining College for a better future

I have always dreamt of sitting in an office, working hard on projects for a company. This is one reason, I chose Mechanical Engineering as my major in Middlesex County College. I wanted to pursue my dream of becoming a Mechanical Engineer, as I did not like labor work which I was currently doing and also the fact that I will earn more money if I work as an Engineer rather than a laborer. I had already completed my Diploma in Mechanical Engineering in India, and I am currently pursuing my degree in Mechanical Engineering in United States of America. I chose Middlesex County College, because of the lack of options I had for selecting colleges and also the fact that
tuition fees here is much less compared to other institutions. Also I would earn my Associate’s Degree in two years time and then I will be able to transfer to a Degree college to complete my course. This is a challenge for me now as I will be working and attending full time college but I am sure that I would do well, if I manage time and do my work on time. Before I joined Middlesex county college, I was working in a company named Humanscale, which makes chairs, tables and monitor arms.
I worked in that company for a year. I used to pack chairs and load them in trucks. It was exhausting as I had to lift up chairs all day long and pack them and load in trucks. But because I was good with computers, I was promoted to a different department where I used to handle all the defective and scrap materials used in making products and make reports about it. This is where I started to work with Engineers, because they had to check every material for problems and had to test the material again and then work on the material trying to find out the reasons it turned out to be defective. I was fascinated by the way they used to work and think. They always seemed to have an idea to fix things. As I made reports I learnt what to write in the reports for each scrap materials. They told me I should join college and continue my degree as I was pretty good with helping them and also used to suggest some of my own ideas. Personally I did not like my job at all because I was doing labor work, even when I was promoted, sometimes I had to pack chairs and help other people. It always felt like an insult for me because I was an engineer just like them, yet here I am doing labor work while they enjoy their work. This motivated me to study and join
college. Mechanical engineers are employed in virtually every industry, with most of them working for manufacturing firms. The average salary of a Mechanical engineer is fifty thousand dollars annually, way more than a average laborer like me, where I work on weekends and also have overtime, still I just earned thirteen thousand dollars annually. It is basically more effort and work on my part and still I would earn on fourth of what an engineer would earn. I would definitely love to earn more and love to work as an Engineer. Education is important in life and so is joining a college, because college is a place where people decide what their future is going to be and how to plan for it and achieve their goals. College is the first major step towards achieving educational goals in life.