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The Mechanics Of Aircraft And Its Developments

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My interest in psychology did not spark naturally as a freshman undergraduate whose major was initially aerospace engineering. My curiosity for the mechanics of aircraft and its developments. I vividly imagined dissembling into individual components as a challenge to put them back together. In fact, my dream was to transform how aircrafts are created to prevent mechanical failures and ultimately save lives. My love for machinery eventually led me down to the road of psychology. Analogously, humans are complex machines where psychology is a way to decipher and understand the mechanical processes of the human mind.
My introduction to psychology had captivated much curiosity about the mind and how it works. I ponder about various aspects of the mind given the ways people conceptualize thoughts that affect the core feelings and emotions, and ultimately impacting their behaviors to make choices. People are free agents whose complexity poses many challenges to understand completely. Like mechanical gears with various moving parts including genetics, cultures, sexual orientation, traumas, values, family upbringing, and how all together influence their cognitive processes, the mind is influenced by both nature and nurture.
From something that started as a raw curiosity, it has turned my passion to empathy for others. My interests in helping people had led me to my very first undergraduate internship, working with a diverse group of foster adolescents who presented with

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