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01-28-2003, 11:45 AM
Hey Guys... i'm having to write this paper in hopes to get a scholarship. It's about why i'm choosing to be a chemical engineer.. and honest, I DO NOT KNOW!! But, so far, this is what i've got, and i would really really love it if you guys would read it and help me out just as much as you can... when i refer to my parents in here, i'm talking about my dad, cause he was alive when i decided to become a chem. engineer, and my aunt....
Chemical engineering was not my initial choice of career. I, like many other children of young age, had dreams of becoming a doctor, actress, model, lawyer and back to doctor again. No matter how many times I changed my mind, I always knew that I wanted to study a science, just did not know which one. Through middle school and ninth grade I had dreams of one day becoming a doctor. I wanted my name in papers. I wanted to make grand discoveries that would lead to the cure of cancer or other devastating diseases; that was until reality set in. Around the tenth grade I realized that even though I wanted the title, four years of college plus medical school was not how I wanted to spend the next decade of my life. Junior year came around and I still had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I knew college was definitely in my future; just what to do there was the problem.
Luckily, in my junior year of high school I took my first chemistry class. In there I realized that, even though I had to study hard and concentrate to understand some of the material, this was definitely something I could see myself studying for the next four years of my life. My parent’s opinion was slightly different though, “What can you do with a chemistry degree, teach it? You know teachers don’t make anything. Why don’t you just go into computers instead?” At the time I knew very little about chemistry and what kind of jobs the major had to offer, but I knew there had to be more than what my parents assumed. That’s when I learned about chemical engineering.
I took the title “chemical engineer” literally. I thought it was another name for chemist; I couldn’t picture myself in a white robe, wearing goggling glasses, and laughing hysterically while I conjured up some potion.
tha'ts all i got so far.. any help?
Chemical engineering was not my initial choice of career. I, like many other children of young age, had dreams of becoming a doctor, actress, model, lawyer and back to doctor again. No matter how many times I changed my mind, I always knew that I wanted to study a science, just did not know which one. Through middle school and ninth grade I had dreams of one day becoming a doctor. I wanted my name in papers. I wanted to make grand discoveries that would lead to the cure of cancer or other devastating diseases; that was until reality set in. Around the tenth grade I realized that even though I wanted the title, four years of college plus medical school was not how I wanted to spend the next decade of my life. Junior year came around and I still had no idea what I wanted to do with my life. I knew college was definitely in my future; just what to do there was the problem.
Luckily, in my junior year of high school I took my first chemistry class. In there I realized that, even though I had to study hard and concentrate to understand some of the material, this was definitely something I could see myself studying for the next four years of my life. My parent’s opinion was slightly different though, “What can you do with a chemistry degree, teach it? You know teachers don’t make anything. Why don’t you just go into computers instead?” At the time I knew very little about chemistry and what kind of jobs the major had to offer, but I knew there had to be more than what my parents assumed. That’s when I learned about chemical engineering.
I took the title “chemical engineer” literally. I thought it was another name for chemist; I couldn’t picture myself in a white robe, wearing goggling glasses, and laughing hysterically while I conjured up some potion.
tha'ts all i got so far.. any help?