Why I Chose College Essay

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College is something I have been waiting to go to for a very long time. The idea to go is something that people have not put into my mind, but it is something that I have set as my own goal to finish. What I have wanted to study in college is computer science.

The reason that I have decided to make that what I want to study the computer science courses is that I have always been interested in computers. I have always wanted to know how they work and what they do to make the applications that they do in computers. To create code, to make new programs and apps for computers or even working with network/ servers has been fascinating to me. Understanding the way the digital world works is what I want to know how each thing works. I like taking things apart and putting them back together.

In my life, I have never been pushed or urged to be something that I don't want to be. I am somebody who has had to be self-motivated in order to get the things that I wanted done, done. There have been times that I have found difficult because of the circumstances that I had been in, but I have persevered. I know that going to college is going to be …show more content…

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