My Academic Journey Goes On...

I enjoy attending Transit Tech HS. I chose to go here mainly because it was a vocational school closely associated with the MTA New York City Transit. In my years in this school, I performed well in all of my subjects but my favorite class of all is Shop. In 10th grade I studied electrical installation where I learned the trade of electrically wiring circuits in buildings and homes. I've always had the feeling that I'm the best when working with my hands. I became the top student in that class by the end of that semester and had a new found skill of residential house wiring. After having electrical installation shop, I moved on to an automotive shop in the 11th grade. There I learned the anatomy of a cars, trucks, and motorcycles. I took great pride in my work in that class, doing all my homework, participating in class, interacting with my teacher and classmates and getting down and dirty working on different car parts. Like the shop before that, I developed a skill of automotive engineering, my own shop teacher Mr. Bogert ranked me number one that whole school year.

With the end of the school coming up, I thought about my future after high school. Well I decided to pursue a career in the aviation field and become a pilot. During the summer of 2007, I attended the Aviation Awareness Institute at Vaughn College of Aeronautics Technology in Flushing, Queens. There, I participated in programs that gave me the opportunity to prepare myself for the necessities of college and some of the aviation related courses they had to offer. For four weeks I attended college like courses in robotics, air traffic control, and flight dispatch and flight operations. I enjoy my time at the program so much that I've now considered going to Vaughn College after high school.

I think participating in the college now program will be significant to the development of my academic life. I’ve experienced more accomplishments than failures in life and I feel that the program will give me the opportunity to discover and enjoy things that would be beneficial to my academic journey to success. I would like to participate in the college now program because I believe that working in a college-like environment can help further my educational skills and give me an indication of what's to come when I enter college for the first time. I know my die hard ambitions to achieve would help become an effective student in this program.