Why My Academic Discipline is My Choice of Study

                Choosing a plan of study for college is no easy decision. Thousands of factors go into making a choice; such as, course difficulty, percent job placement, likeability, problem solving skills, peoples’ satisfaction rate with this major, its ability to challenge my potential, and etc. Often this decision overwhelms college bound students; I was no exception. As I progressed towards my college career as a high school student, I had no idea what I wanted to do. I tried basing my choice off of what I liked to do, as well as what I excelled at. When I broke down my basic skills I knew my strengths were math, science, art, and philosophy. With these skills I knew I had to somehow shape my future around them. Once I figured out what career choices I was interested in, I then had to figure out what colleges offered promising programs to these choices. My final three choices came down to graphic design, criminal justice, and engineering.

                Growing up I was a terribly slow person. I was always the last one to finish my test, eat my lunch, finish a race, and etc. When it came to figuring out what I was good at it took me up until high school to start realizing my strengths. One of my strengths I mentioned earlier was art; I had an uncanny ability to translate exactly what I saw into a realistic sketch. I had a great passion when it came to doing my art work. The feeling I got from people telling me, “Wow that’s amazing!” or “Did you do that?” was just indescribable. Art gave me a feeling of accomplishment unlike many things in life. Considering the possibility of transferring my pleasurable hobby into a career was a nice thought; however, many problems occurred with this idea. Art Isn’t exactly a field one goes into to make money. There are millions of artist in the world and with millions of artist comes high competition, and I think I have had enough competing throughout my high school career to eliminate this idea as a job choice.

                After scratching out the idea of being an artist I transferred my time debating between a life in criminal Justice or in Engineering. I have always found the work that detectives do to be somewhat fun. One of my favorite television shows has always been law and order, which was one of my biggest influences for considering criminal justice.  There is just something that has always intrigued me about the criminal mind. Ideas and concepts I don’t seem to understand fascinate me, and when it came to criminals I wanted to be able to understand why they do what they do. If I were to go into criminal justice my goal would have been to become a detective. There is nothing better than having the epiphany that solves the enigma. All detectives have to do is be able to make connections, which is nothing more than what the average everyday person already does. That is the very reason why I chose not to pursue a career in criminal justice.

                I wanted to do something that not everybody is able to do. I felt the need to be able to challenge myself, as well as having a career that has the potential of changing the world. The world has too many problems occurring in today’s society and I want to change that. With all the pollution that is going on I want to see if I could somehow divert the contamination that occurs on a daily basis. The world’s fresh water supply is narrowing down at an alarming rate, and in some areas of the world the crisis is being shown such as in New Dheli. As an Engineer I feel as though I could have a chance to make the world a better place and that is why I chose engineering as my main academic discipline.