Waterloo Engineering Personal Statement

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The path that is to take my post-secondary education has been guided by a very simple, yet very powerful, principle of mine: “Go big or stay home.” My desire to study engineering at the University of Waterloo very much embodies the “go big” half of this maxim. Not only is Waterloo Engineering renown across the world, it gathers some of the best faculty and students in the country and offers an extraordinary co-op program with partners in Silicon Valley, the government and other universities. Moreover, Waterloo is one of the only universities in Canada to offer mechatronics engineering - a discipline that is at the forefront of the technology field and combines my interests in both software and hardware. By studying at Waterloo, I hope to make