“Who or What Was the Inspiration for Choosing Your Current Course of Study?”

“Who or what was the inspiration for choosing your current course
of study?”

I’m currently studying in my final year of a Software Engineering (MEng) degree, and I have absolutely no disappointments or regrets in having chosen to study this course. Hopefully, by the end of this essay you will have gained some idea of why I chose to study this particular course, and also see that the decision was not as simple as you would think. I will show that the above question, in my case, isn’t “who or what”, but really a combination of both, “who and what”. Going to university is a big decision for anybody, because it literally changes your perspective on life in one way or another. This is why it is really important, I mean, really, REALLY, REALLY important you study something that you’re interested in. The main reason for this is because our strengths tend to lie in what we’re normally interested in. So when the course starts getting tough, we can find that extra motivation to make the extra effort to keep going. Of course, it also helps having an idea of what type of person you are, and what your future aspirations (i.e. career direction) are. As it is these two aspects that represent the “what was the inspiration for choosing your current course of study”. In my case, as long as I can remember from a very young age, I have loved to solve problems. Whether they are logical puzzles, or fixing appliances and furniture, I have always been an engineer at heart. As I like to solve problems, and help people in a real beneficial way, I came to realise that technology can help me achieve this. As we continue to make technical advancements through history, society continues to become more reliant on technology. As you can see from above, the type of person I was had helped me understand that I wanted to do an engineering degree course. Of course, that still means that there are lots of possible fields that I could enter into: Aeronautical, Civil, Electrical, Mechanical...