MY PERSONAL STATEMENT!

Personal Statement

            I have had a lot of career paths ever since I have graduated out high school, from psychology to being a pro wrestler, but there is something that have always caught my eye ever since I was a little kid, and that was technology. Technology is something that I have always enjoyed having in my life. When I was in Peru I started to use remote controls from TVs at a very young age and having a home computer with windows 98 and just mess around notepad and paint. My life has improved with technology over the years. I was always updating myself when new devices came out, and I was always the one that members of my family would come for help for any tech help.

When I was in High school I started going to therapy and I had this psychiatrist named George. He was really cool with me we talked about everything about my life and how to improve it, and to cooperate with my parents. Those sessions inspired me to look into the field of psychology. The field of psychology is very interesting to me, because the human mind is so complicated its like a computer itself that’s how I looked at it, I wanted to take a person feelings apart, and see what triggers what and what makes a person sad, and what makes a person happy. Also my family suggested that to me, so that I can use the studying I was going to do to help myself and in own life and help others as well, I was sold in the field, because at the time I did not require that much math just until Statistics in College so I was happy I chose this as my major at the time. But then something changed it was something that made me realize that this is not the major I wanted to be. My aunt is a psychologist in Peru, and she is really good. She helps out a lot of patients and she has a high success rate with them, but with herself not so much, her mind was too one-dimensional, and she was very close minded, and very depressing as well, because psychologist and psychiatrists tend to repress their feelings a lot, and me being stuck in an office for probably 8 hours by myself thinking about how their life is makes me feel sad.

            When I decided to change my major I didn’t know what I wanted to be for the first time so I got lost and looked up was similar to the concept of technology. When I started to realize that computer science was my dream major, I didn’t have the confidence to go through with the major because of all of the good grades and all of the math class I had to take. So I would just give excuses to myself saying that I can’t do it, I’m not good enough. But I had no other choice, I was in a very bad situation, and I wanted to stay with a major that I really liked and wanted to practice, even if it took for a long time, because this is the major I should’ve went for all this time.

The reason that I think that I can be good for this major is not a proficiency in math or being good at programming right away, but my willingness to keep improving and to actually ask questions about my field and network with other people to help get to where I want to be, I want to keep growing in the community of coding as well and show everybody that its not so bad, just need to keep at it until you master the language. But I know I have the ability to be one of the best in the tech field and change programming to the point that everybody can do it, and create programs to make things and make things easier for the world. You can say Computer Science is a Lazy Major, because people in the field like to make programs for them mass audience to use and make their lives easier. I just want to strive in this field and I don’t think I’m ever going to change majors again. Computer science will change my life in a positive way, and help my family in the long run.