statement of purpose
STATEMENT OF PURPOSE “Education is a companion which no future can depress, no crime can destroy, no enemy can alienate it and no nepotism can enslave”
It is this maxim that urged me to think higher right from my young age. Science has always been a fascination and more of a miracle to me. The wonders that science and technology have unfolded before us are not limited to time and space. My aim in life is to accumulate this diverse knowledge from all over the world. With this cherished goal in my mind, I wish to state in the following paragraphs, my viewpoints and the rational behind my application to the graduate studies program in Mechanical Engineering at your university.
The knowledge acquired in schools and colleges, I believe is not an education, but the means to it. It is this belief that makes me ‘a student to the end of my days’: the obvious direction being curiosity towards exploration.
I used to wonder (and I still do) how a gramophone record gives out such a melodious sound; I had been worried (but I don’t now) what would happen to an aero plane flying so high up in the air when the wind stopped pushing it; and I could never understand how the petrol in a container kept in the back of a car burned in the engine placed in the front and moved the car when you just turned a key on the dashboard! These simple things which can be explained easily now used to be very puzzling questions in my early school life. I used to ask my classmates, teachers and parents, getting some of my questions cleared at times and getting some of them more complicated most of the time. That might be the time when I decided to learn more and more about ‘Engineering’ so that, at least, I might be in a position to solve some of those puzzles on my own.
One of the memories of my childhood I deeply cherish is that of my first day in school. I distinctly remember my eyes watering as my
It is this maxim that urged me to think higher right from my young age. Science has always been a fascination and more of a miracle to me. The wonders that science and technology have unfolded before us are not limited to time and space. My aim in life is to accumulate this diverse knowledge from all over the world. With this cherished goal in my mind, I wish to state in the following paragraphs, my viewpoints and the rational behind my application to the graduate studies program in Mechanical Engineering at your university.
The knowledge acquired in schools and colleges, I believe is not an education, but the means to it. It is this belief that makes me ‘a student to the end of my days’: the obvious direction being curiosity towards exploration.
I used to wonder (and I still do) how a gramophone record gives out such a melodious sound; I had been worried (but I don’t now) what would happen to an aero plane flying so high up in the air when the wind stopped pushing it; and I could never understand how the petrol in a container kept in the back of a car burned in the engine placed in the front and moved the car when you just turned a key on the dashboard! These simple things which can be explained easily now used to be very puzzling questions in my early school life. I used to ask my classmates, teachers and parents, getting some of my questions cleared at times and getting some of them more complicated most of the time. That might be the time when I decided to learn more and more about ‘Engineering’ so that, at least, I might be in a position to solve some of those puzzles on my own.
One of the memories of my childhood I deeply cherish is that of my first day in school. I distinctly remember my eyes watering as my