When looking at colleges, I seek to find a institution that can help me grow in three specific areas to achieve my educational goals. If I can gain a solid foundation in general knowledge, an ever-increasing ability to critically think, and a well-rounded capacity to interact with and administer computer systems, I will become both prepared and uniquely qualified as I work towards my immediate goal of earning a computer related degree. Both the knowledge and the degree will serve me well as I go on to become an employee entering the highly competitive technology workforce.
My interest in computers began as a middle school student. Back then, I had no answer to the time-honored question, “What do you want to do when you grow up?” It was not
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My experience there has both vastly improved my understanding of the inner workings of computers and networks, and cemented my belief that I belong in a job working with PCs. This being said, one may wonder how video game creation became my specific field of interest. I collaborated with my newfound colleagues at the IT department and continued to grow my computing comprehension at home. Additionally, I continued to increase my software development ability, both at home and at school. More importantly, when I was not working or learning at home, I was playing video games. The same curiosity that spurred me to learn about programming and computer hardware, now turned it’s attention to discovering how these games were created. I swiftly learned that while much of the process was artistic in nature, software, not unlike what I had learned to write, ran the game behind the scenes. This told me that software was also a major part of the video game industry and a huge factor in the production process. By this point I had achieved some minor level of proficiency with the coding languages I knew. To that extent, my research revealed to me that video game coding would be more difficult than any software challenge I had tackled up to this point. If my time programming had taught me anything, it is that I would appreciate the challenges this similar task would have to offer. Besides,