u of i essays
Explain your interest in the major you selected. You may describe a related experience you’ve had to that area of study and/or your future career goals. Please limit your response to approximately 300 words.
Wheels crunched over the landscape of rock and sand, pushing forward into the desert abyss where maroon vista stretched endlessly into ashen horizon. Imprints trailed behind Curiosity, its metal body shining brighter than the white sun casting indigo streaks in the cloudless sky.
A buzzer snaps me out of my daydream, the clear atmosphere morphing into the wall of a gymnasium, wheels instead rolling onto foam mat. I was at the VEX Robotics State Championships, standing next to the arena and waiting for the final round to start. My hands gripped the controller nervously as the referee approached. “And … BEGIN.”
Four robots raced forward all at once, desperately trying to score in the goals. I leaned forward, my fingers gliding over the joysticks, hearing the roar of the crowd and screech of our motors as they were strained beyond their limits. As I put the last ball in, the timer sounded.
“Bartlett High School has won with nineteen points,” echoed across the microphone.
My eyes shot open and whipped around to look at my teammates, cheers erupting around us, my heart soaring. As we hug and run over to the bleachers, I recall my childhood romanticisms of spaceships and faraway planets, and how it has motivated me to explore more in the disciplines of science and technology than I had ever imagined.
While these fields initially interested me simply due to star-struck imagination, through my involvement in the Bartlett High School Academy, VEX Robotics, and other similar clubs I have found a love for engineering and technology. Yet, my aspirations still exist of carrying humans past the final frontiers of our universe, bringing them past the lands only seen in dreams. I believe the forthcoming of civilization rests in the unexplored realms of our cosmos, and I
Wheels crunched over the landscape of rock and sand, pushing forward into the desert abyss where maroon vista stretched endlessly into ashen horizon. Imprints trailed behind Curiosity, its metal body shining brighter than the white sun casting indigo streaks in the cloudless sky.
A buzzer snaps me out of my daydream, the clear atmosphere morphing into the wall of a gymnasium, wheels instead rolling onto foam mat. I was at the VEX Robotics State Championships, standing next to the arena and waiting for the final round to start. My hands gripped the controller nervously as the referee approached. “And … BEGIN.”
Four robots raced forward all at once, desperately trying to score in the goals. I leaned forward, my fingers gliding over the joysticks, hearing the roar of the crowd and screech of our motors as they were strained beyond their limits. As I put the last ball in, the timer sounded.
“Bartlett High School has won with nineteen points,” echoed across the microphone.
My eyes shot open and whipped around to look at my teammates, cheers erupting around us, my heart soaring. As we hug and run over to the bleachers, I recall my childhood romanticisms of spaceships and faraway planets, and how it has motivated me to explore more in the disciplines of science and technology than I had ever imagined.
While these fields initially interested me simply due to star-struck imagination, through my involvement in the Bartlett High School Academy, VEX Robotics, and other similar clubs I have found a love for engineering and technology. Yet, my aspirations still exist of carrying humans past the final frontiers of our universe, bringing them past the lands only seen in dreams. I believe the forthcoming of civilization rests in the unexplored realms of our cosmos, and I