"Millions of people saw an apple fall, but Newton was the one who asked why", said Bernard Mannes Baruch (1870 – 1965) an advisor to more than 40 Presidents. And that is why I chose the major Engineering, because I just want to know why. Why do planes fly? Why does the Sun shine? I believe that Engineering is the answer to all of the scientific questions asked. The definition of Engineer is a person that is an expert in technology. They design machines, computer programs, buildings, and chemical processes. They use science to build better things that help us everyday in everyway. Without engineers, the world would stop.
             My father is an engineer, graduated from the University of Poona in the state of Maharashtra, India. Therefore, since my dad was an engineer, great importance was attached to subjects like Math and Science from a very young age. Those subjects were always first priority because with those subjects, it is possible to do anything. Math, the language of numbers, is universal! Everybody uses numbers and everybody needs them. Math is the common language in which every human being can communicate with each other and that is why it is very vital to be fluent in it. Anyways, that is what I always thought and did my best in those two subjects, Math and Science. All the other subjects were important too, like English and Geography, but to me they were more like common sense questions. My dad had a big atlas that he had received from Reader's Digest magazine and I used to look through it every time. And because of that, my knowledge about different countries and continents was quite high. I also liked to read a lot; stuff like mysteries, autobiographies of interesting people appealed to me a lot. Then came the time when computers became a household object. When I got the first computer in my household, I was about 7 or 8 years old. All I did was play games on the computer. Most of them
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