Passion For Coding Personal Statement

I have made a contribution to the AVID program by spreading all the wonderful things AVID teaches you to my friends and relatives also how it can change your life positively. I have spoken with many friends as to why they should be considering the AVID program in high school in order for them to gain knowledge and learn important college factors so that when they move on they won’t have a difficult time in college. This contribution may not seem as much but I have also tried my hardest to earn a good grade for all the years that I have been taken AVID not only for a grade in the class but for others to see what I have learned throughout all the years that I have been in AVID program and what it can do to improve high school students who want to attend college and become successful trying to reach their goals and dreams.

I have chosen to pursue a career in computer science, because it has been a heavy influence on me throughout my life. All my life I have been surrounded by technology, almost more than half of my family has a career in the IT field, which is what sparked my interest. My earliest memory of when I first became interested was when I was about 6 and my mother bought me a phonics dog, and I was more interested in how it worked rather than what it did. I then saw the screw bolts and knew if I used a screwdriver I could see the inside of the toy so I opened it, and from then on I knew I was interested in technology. In middle school was when I first took my actual dive into the IT world and I learned there are different computer languages, and about different devices used in the tech world. Also I

Coming from a Latino household, I’ve learned that anything is achievable – there are no walls nor boundaries to stop me from reaching my goals. Whenever it came to achieving something in school, I could hear my father’s words “si se puede” – meaning “you can do it” – playing in my head. So long as I believed I could excel and go beyond in my studies, I felt that I could open doors of opportunities for myself.

When evaluating what career path to take, I wanted something more than just protecting sensitive data, rather pursuing and investigating cybercrimes. After researching cyber security careers I found that the FBI is the one of the best agencies to combat cyber threats. Furthermore, the FBI is on the front lines of chasing cyber threats around the globe and assisting in cyber intrusions to help protect the United States economy and national security. In turn, this information lead me to their Computer Scientist Program which fits the criteria of employment I am seeking for a number of reasons. First, I want to apply my knowledge to a career were I can help protect my country and fellow citizens from ongoing cyber threats we experience every

Since graduating high school, I have taken advantage of several opportunities to obtain formal education. Most notably, I have completed two associates’ degrees, one from Central Texas College with a major in applied technology, the other from Cochise College with a major in Intelligence Operations. Additionally, I have completed one vocational studies program from Seminole Community College in automotive service technology. Currently, I am working toward a bachelor’s degree with Utica College in Cyber Security.

This class has overall been one of my favorite classes that I have taken over the past four years five years at DeSales. I learned more than I expected and have implemented some of these learned lessons towards simple excel calculations into my work at my job. For my chosen project, I decided to take a look at one of my hobbies. During my senior year I took a personal finance and discussed with one of my professors about my collection of trading cards. The result of this conversation, had me start thinking about the overall value of my collection for insurance purposes and if I ever sold the collection.

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 would like to thank you for giving me the opportunity to write my desired future based Master Program in Software Engineering. I feel that a higher education for Masters enable me to approach to the most recent technologies and to practice myself in a competitive environment and learn more skills in the field of Software Engineering.

Since childhood, I have always known that I wanted to pursue a STEM related career. I was fascinated by the evolving technological world and the various advancements but computers, in specific, stood out to me. Soon, working with computers came easy to me and I was off in identifying new software and utilizing programming languages alongside electrical components for various projects such as an LED displaying text on an Arduino board. Mathematics and science have also been strengths of mine and coming from a family with strong mathematical and scientific knowledge, I learned to integrate them into coding projects such as Sierpinski’s carpet and a basketball game. It is no surprise that our modern world is heavily computation and data driven.

Working as a network analyst or a cybersecurity specialist could help fulfill my passion for cybersecurity and majorly benefit companies or industries from being attacked. Also, I naturally love to read, write, and speak, and I thought being a lawyer sounded appealing to me. In fact, I am the Vice President of the Troy’s Mock Trial team, and I would also like to become a lawyer (most likely cybersecurity law) because of my passion for humanities and speaking. The job of a journalist seemed interesting because being able to cover breaking news and exposing it to the general public through writing sounds

Passion is when a person feels strong love, fondness, or desire for something. To be completely in love with something, to put your entire heart and soul in something you love. That passion for me is music. Fellow classmates often wished they had joined the music program at an early age, and feel like they can’t do it in highschool because “it’s too late to learn an instrument.” But, to all my classmates that aren’t in the music program, I highly encourage it. Even if they don’t know how to keep a beat, I feel like music is something everyone can benefit from. Everyone should consider getting involved because music helps you find a part of yourself, you didn’t even know existed. It’s such a beautiful thing that educates you on communicating.

When was a small child, I had a lot of imagination and was burning with creativity. My sister and I had a composition notebook full of ideas for our own tree-house. Even though they were crazy and unrealistic, we still put a lot of passion into them. There is this odd thing I do when I listen to music, I started jumping around in my room with my arms spread out like a bird so it looks like I'm flying. My mom calls it "Dance Fantasies!" and she would wiggle her fingers while saying it. Today, the book is long gone, my sister is a freshman college and I'm a high school Senior. Our minds have drifted from all those insane projects we did as kids. Nowadays, I have thought about putting my imagination and creativity into my future career. I remember when I was an eighth grade I thought about what I wanted to do once I got into high school, and I narrowed my options down to Culinary Arts.

One of my greatest passions is reading. Whether it’s a biography, a thriller, a newspaper or even blogs, you’ll find me reading during my free time. When I was younger, I enjoyed reading during meals. While others were watching TV, I was either busy reading the bible or going through the newspaper to learn more on the current events. As I grew older, the habit grew and when I went to college, I had an easy time going through books during my research.

In addition to not asking questions , I did not talk to any of my teachers to communicate the fact that I needed help. I would sit in my classes and just listen to loads of information that my teachers were giving, not once did I bother to let them know that I needed help. I can remember the time I was sitting in a digital media course and the teacher was lecturing about coding websites. She was going go on and on about the different programs that could be used to code websites. As she spoke I wrote down some of the key words that she wrote on the board. When she was finished I had a page full of notes that read words like FLASH, PHP, CSC and HTML . Once she was done lecturing I read the notes I had written and I asked myself “ What the heck is this?” No matter how many times I read the definitions of the words I could not get an understanding of how that would help me complete a coded website. I stared helplessly at my notes and eventually became in a daze until a loud voice called my name “ DIAMOND JACKSON!” When I looked up from my page of notes I could see my teacher looking directly at me as she waved me over to her desk. Nervous and confused , I walked over to her desk and quietly said” Yes ?” She then looked at her computer then looked at me and said . “ I feel that we needed this one on one talk. This unit is tough and I know we may be going through it at a fast pace so I wanted to take this time to go over some things with you.” She then flipped her computer and let

My interest in computer security, specifically the areas of programming languages, security network architectures, the development of new approaches to securing large scale enterprise applications and databases begin in my initial computer science courses. I discovered I have a natural affinity for solving complex computational, programming and system integration problems exceptionally fast. I also learned that I have the ability to define a series of coding requirements and complete them with a specific goal of