Submission Number: 369
Submission ID: 1299
Submission UUID: 0cbe19da-faf9-4729-af40-7fc2ff978666

Created: Mon, 02/26/2024 - 09:07
Completed: Mon, 02/26/2024 - 09:07
Changed: Tue, 09/03/2024 - 20:06

Remote IP address: 94.216.186.199
Submitted by:Anonymous
Language: English

Is draft: No
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Jack
Diamond
He/Him
Erie
Colorado
United States
80516
Mechanical Engineering
English (5), German (4), Spanish (3)
I was so young I can barely even remember our trip we took as a family through Europe, I must have been in Kindergarten. The largest portion of the trip was taken through France, and I had attended a French immersion Preschool which allowed me to speak at a conversation level of French. One day, my brother and I were riding a seesaw in a French park. We then saw a boy around our age come to the park and we started playing together. For the 5 or 10 minutes we were together I thoroughly enjoyed that moment, to this day, it is the only memory I can recollect from our multi-day trip through Europe. I remember interacting with that boy more than seeing Notre Dame, the Louvre, and driving through the French-Swiss countryside. While traveling for many is seeing the wonders of the world, for me it is meeting the people, experiencing a perspective that is foundationally different from my own. Currently, I am abroad in Germany through the Congress-Bundestag Youth Exchange Program as a Youth Ambassador for the United States. My most fond experiences from this year will not be seeing Schloss Neuschwanstein, the Cologne Dom, or even the German Bundestag. My best experiences will be having Thanksgiving Dinner with my host family, going on Saturdays to the local soccer games with my German friends, and going 2 days a week to participate with the University lacrosse team in my area. It is these experiences that not only have shown me what is truly important while traveling the world but have prepared me for future, alike experiences. Going to Germany with no German experience while being expected to integrate into the community is no small task. On top of all this I was tasked with attending German school everyday, expected to perform well in those classes and even go through the college application process while abroad. This year has given me unmatched traits of adaptability, problem solving, and communication. Traits that are vital not only for College Students and Engineers but also for people in the Global Engineering RAP program. These early experiences of the richness of our global world has helped me align to be prepared to be a successful and contributing member of the Global Engineering RAP and being able to help enrich the community with what I have experienced thus far and my continued passion for being a global citizen.
As I briskly walk down the hall of my dorm, fumbling around with my books and backpack rushing to my first class that starts in 5 minutes. I want to be able to look up and see a warm smile followed by a, "good morning, do you need any help with that?" I’m open to many different types of people who would live down the hall from me in the Global Engineering RAP. Whether they have come from Boulder County, like myself, or another country on the other side of the globe, I would hope that at a minimum we share a love of engineering and global ideas. I want this person to challenge me, but at the same time support me. This is a person I can talk to and just forget about time, someone who is willing to help me out when I need it and ask me when they need some help too. Ideally, I would love to learn from others who have been to other places in the world and can share what they learned from those places and cultures. Ultimately, I would like to live down the hall from curious, collaborative, kind, fun and invested individuals.
The job of an engineer in its most basic form is to make the world better, easier, and safer for people. My experiences with engineering classes in the past have always done a great job at explaining how to make the world better, easier, and safer. I've taken Project Lead the Way classes in Civil Engineering & Architecture, as well as Aerospace at my high school and had a great time in both classes. However, it always failed to meet a large passion of mine and that would be people. The very basis of our field is people. This topic had never been explored while I had taken Engineering at my high school. I don't think this was even the fault of the teacher or the curriculum, but just the nature of how engineering works and how structured it can become. We become so focused on the tasks at hand, that we forget about why we do engineering in the first place…for people. I believe the Global Engineering RAP puts an emphasis on the people aspect that I chase, the involvement with like minded individuals on my floor and the accessibility it provides to experience culture beyond my own is something I truly envy. This program will allow me to shape my engineering experience to how I truly envision it. My past experiences of traveling out of the country and even taking a year abroad in Germany will allow me to provide a perspective and knowledge that many in the program may not have. As I know, the program is a gateway to the Global Engineering Minor where students will go abroad. As someone who has already had this experience, I can be a great component and help in the challenges that many students will face while abroad, as I myself have experienced many of the challenges going abroad entails like homesickness, language learning, and socialization.
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