College Admissions Essay: How Technology Has Changed My Life

I remember stepping through the door into the robotics room, I didn't know what I was getting into and what impact it would have on my life. Robotics became my life for the next 4 years, constantly spending every moment of my free time investing it in robotics. I found my passion; to learn, with a desire to make the team better by passing my knowledge down to them. Robotics taught me countless valuable lessons and skills that shaped my life. Every day I acquired new skills and techniques to improve the robot, exponentially increasing my comprehension of engineering. Learning how to use tools, create mechanisms, and basic fundamentals of engineering; I began to work up the ranks of the team. Starting once as a clueless freshman I earned the

The Social Impact of technology has changed the way we live our daily lives. It has recreated the way we communicate using Social Media, the devices we use on a daily basis, and the barriers we are breaking to help the elderly and people with disabilities. With all of these great accomplishments in technology we still find ourselves overlooking how this new technology affects the people around us. Is one of our greatest accomplishment going to bring us a promising future with great discoveries or a future filled of a negative impact on our society.

All my life I have grown up with electronics around me, I was born in 1998 when computers were starting to take off to change the world and eventually mines as well. I grew up in Chicago, Illinois, my entire life; I was a reclusive kid growing up, my mother always wanted me at home due to the violence in the city. My life consisted of going to school, my focus in life, and coming home to play video games or use the computer, as a result I was very introverted. My way of expressing myself was a Windows XP PC with the bulky monitor, very primitive by today's standards; it provided me with a means of allowing me to break out my shell it developed me into a more uninhibited person, I learned many things such as how to communicate my feelings with

My dark lord, I am weak to resist him, like a siren calling out to sailors, beckoning them to their deaths on the rocky shores. He lures me in and “kills” my time. Standing at thirty-two inches watching me every time I enter my room, sounds like a midget in a horror movie...nope nothing that terrifying, I am talking about what everyone calls the idiot box or the boob tube.

I have lived in Maine my whole life and in Nobleboro since I was about two. I live at home with both of my parents and four of my five siblings. My youngest sister is four years old and is in love with watching Disney princesses and pirates. Next down the list is Abigail, she is my second youngest sister and enjoys performing Ballet wherein she takes dance lessons at the Mid Coast dance studio. Hannah my closest in age sibling and sister, loves to draw and is currently attending Lincoln Academy also. Now my only brother, Walker has recently graduated from high school. Finally, My oldest sister, Harmony, is currently living with my grandparents to be closer to her job in Camden. Living with a large family means that we can eat breakfast, lunch

Throughout my life I've come to be heavily involved in just about all things technology and it's developed into something I've become passionate about. I began working on computers as early as 7th grade and I moved on to doing freelance work for friends and family, as well as taking Computer servicing classes my sophomore & junior years of high school. Beyond high school I had a falling out with technology, and I believe this was necessary in order for me to realize that it's a field that I love and excel

I grew up with very little confidence hardly looked people in the eye and never really spoke to anyone. My parents signed me up for endless sport teams in hopes that I’d gain confidence. I soon came across the sport Rowing. Out of all the races I’ve rowed, one especially changed my perspective on life. I realized that rowing is a place where I can be myself and no one will care, where I can scream at the top of my lungs and not get in trouble, or where I can wear mismatched outfits and no one will judge

Technology has affected me in different ways. Using technology has help me to perform my job as a nurse more safely, improves charting and improves bedside nursing, to communicate with the coworkers and leadership team, to get education and get in-services online without having to attend physically to a classroom. In addition, with my phone, I use the GPS to find an address, or a new route when there is an accident, it will help me to get on time to my work place, since every day I hit traffic coming and going to work. At home, helps me to record my favorite shows in the DVR when I am not at home.

Life normally doesn’t go the way you plan when you’re young. When I was little, I figured that when I was at the age of graduation I would be totally prepared to go off my own. As I sit and think about the topic of how my life is going, several thoughts pour into my mind. First, I think of how lucky I am. The past two years could’ve changed my life because of bad health. Through weeks and months of hospitals stays and hours spent in the doctor’s office and in the emergency room, I’ve come out lucky and I have almost returned to good health. Second, I think of those friends who I thought would be there for my whole life that are no longer a part of my life. I also look to the people who I never thought would be there by my side and realize

Have you ever wished that you could wake up with not a worry in the world? I know I have but life hits hard doesn’t it? As a young child in elementary school or even not in school yet life is easy I would say. The kids don’t have too much on their plate, all they are worried about is nap time, snack time, recess time you know fun thing. Then suddenly you grow up! Remember all the fun times you had? Now it’s all about work time, class time, dinner time heck half the time we don’t even know what bed time is. Although it all may seem scary and hard there are ways to balance school, work and family.

Knowing that you have made a difference, no matter how small is the greatest feeling in the world and what my life has begun to revolve around. Throughout school my peers bullied me about my weight and looks. It truly ate me alive. I did not want to leave the house, look at myself in the mirror or in photos, or talk to others. My life revolved around thoughts of how I was not good enough for today's "society". My self-esteem plummeted, causing me to believe I did not have any left. I became shy, anxious, and clinically depressed. I felt like an embarrassment and burden to my family. I took a leap of faith in hopes of discovering that I could be useful and decided to apply to become a volunteer at the Virginia Beach SPCA, it changed my life. I began to research

I heard rumors of what life would provide which were spoken by the endless waves of the New Jersey coastlines after they forced me down, under the salty waters and it was my personal duty to rise up again before I was swept away- a lecture on getting up when life pushed its members down. It was a lesson that life itself is tough, and resilience is required for advancement and that example has always followed me in life. I had also dared to follow a trail with my older brother up the Appalachian mountains while in Gatlinburg, Tennessee. The higher up we went, the thinner the trail that ran along a cliff’s edge and the more ice coated the rocks underneath us. My brother was a gritty boy who never showed any affection and often treated

Education has never been a priority in my family. Throughout my childhood I watched my two sisters take on the challenge of getting to college. The oldest, scrambling to pick up the pieces of our disabled father after the divorce, spent so much time at home that school had to be moved to the back-burner. Even when UCSD gave her the opportunity to recover that forgotten pot on the stove, her responsibilities at home forced her to leave it where it was. My other sister, fearful of the back-burner and diminishing into the mom role, spent the next four years juggling homework, varsity softball practice, and duties at home. I swore that she had managed to make college a priority, to move it off the back-burner. However, when application season

I never thought of turning back even though I knew that re-entering society to start a new life and living life well seemed very challenging then. On the other hand that watershed brought hope of a new beginning that became my inspirational impetus. It endowed me with true courage to take on and pursue that intimidating endeavour. When I re-entered society I had nothing else except a promise to myself that I must be determined and disciplined in whatever I do in my life. Then I was poor (monetary), had no qualification, poor in the English language and had a contaminated mind-set with warped attitudes. I had to put in place a strategy to guide me in my learning and growing in order to achieve a distinct transformation of me.

Today’s education differs much from the education fifty years ago. One of the reasons they are so different is because of technology. In the past fifty years the world of technology has grown tremendously, affecting everything, including education. A few things that have been brought into the world of education are computers, video and digital equipment such as DVDs, digital cameras and recording devices. The technology also includes information presentation technologies which includes the Smart Board, and different interactive whiteboards. There are many more that schools did not have fifty years ago.