This I BELIEVE
I believe in setting goals, and in every way possible trying to reach them. One day while working on my computer, an ad popped up about building your own computer. I sat there staring at the computer screen. It made me stop and think for a second. The thought of building a computer just kept running through my mind. I thought about it and decided right then and there, “I am going to build my own computer.” I grabbed a pencil and paper and started writing down all the parts I needed. I had set my goal, and now I started planning what I needed to do to meet my goal.
The first thing I had to do was earn some money to buy the parts. I started doing more chores to make money so I could buy all the components. I would get on my computer and check out ebay to find the best deals on the parts I needed. I always tried, if possible, to get free shipping. I bought the items slowly, so I could see how much it was going to cost me, without actually spending a whole bunch of money at once. As I received each component, I slowly began to …show more content…
It was finally coming together. I realized that I had slowly built my own computer. When the last parts came in, I put them in the computer, put everything back together, and carried the computer to my room. A few minutes later as I was setting it up, I got sort of nervous, “What if it didn’t work?” I turned it on, and it started loading. I sat there watching the screen, and finally it came up like all new computers do. I was so excited, and I had a great feeling of accomplishment.I had achieved my goal. I had built my own computer at fourteen years old. As I finished entering what the computer software wanted to know, I realized right then and there I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I would like to be a computer science engineer. I also realized that what I enjoyed and wanted as a career could not have been discovered without me building my own
I believe in setting goals, and in every way possible trying to reach them. One day while working on my computer, an ad popped up about building your own computer. I sat there staring at the computer screen. It made me stop and think for a second. The thought of building a computer just kept running through my mind. I thought about it and decided right then and there, “I am going to build my own computer.” I grabbed a pencil and paper and started writing down all the parts I needed. I had set my goal, and now I started planning what I needed to do to meet my goal.
The first thing I had to do was earn some money to buy the parts. I started doing more chores to make money so I could buy all the components. I would get on my computer and check out ebay to find the best deals on the parts I needed. I always tried, if possible, to get free shipping. I bought the items slowly, so I could see how much it was going to cost me, without actually spending a whole bunch of money at once. As I received each component, I slowly began to …show more content…
It was finally coming together. I realized that I had slowly built my own computer. When the last parts came in, I put them in the computer, put everything back together, and carried the computer to my room. A few minutes later as I was setting it up, I got sort of nervous, “What if it didn’t work?” I turned it on, and it started loading. I sat there watching the screen, and finally it came up like all new computers do. I was so excited, and I had a great feeling of accomplishment.I had achieved my goal. I had built my own computer at fourteen years old. As I finished entering what the computer software wanted to know, I realized right then and there I knew what I wanted to do with my life. I would like to be a computer science engineer. I also realized that what I enjoyed and wanted as a career could not have been discovered without me building my own