fahadanmar
New member
- Joined
- Aug 22, 2012
- Member Type
- Student or Learner
- Native Language
- Arabic
- Home Country
- Iraq
- Current Location
- United States
I'd appreciate your help if you guys can help me on my SOP
Anything, flawless, or if its too long and you have suggestions to make it shorter?
Please feel free to reply with positive and negative feedback
Motivation often comes to those who through little effort of their own are put in situations where they must either flee or stand and defend to not only survive but thrive. I grew up in the Middle East, in Iraq, often fearing for my very life because my father, an engineer, worked for a company that had contracts with the United States Army, which was not favored by those who opposed working for the new government and the US forces. While most children were in school learning their times tables, I was learning to fire a rifle to preserve my life and that of my family. Now, that I’m in the US and have graduated as a civil engineer, I look forward to continue my education in petroleum engineering. My specific study interests are, but not limited to: fluid transportation processes, the drilling process, embedded network systems, and production engineering. Every step of my life has a significant role in my goal; where I was born, the culture that I was raised in, early age experience, professional experience, moving between countries with different cultures, and my educational background.
Growing up I always had a desire to work outdoors in the field. I have also always had good logical and spatial intelligence and have enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together. I’m curious about how things work around me; it steered me to get a better physical and mental interaction with the world. That is my first reason why I choose engineering for a degree and career. Moreover, I grew up around engineers, my father, my mother, and others in the family. I had the advantage over many students because I grew up seeing the world from an engineering perspective. For example, I remember helping my dad drill some water wells for our farms back home. It is an experience that very few eight years old children get to have. Using very simple methods and tools we were able to reach decent depths. However, those tools were not capable in special cases; we had to make our own equipments due to the lack of variety of hardware back then, mostly because of the economic sanction. I’m confident that this is the reason why I’m interested in petroleum engineering. [Continues]
Anything, flawless, or if its too long and you have suggestions to make it shorter?
Please feel free to reply with positive and negative feedback
Motivation often comes to those who through little effort of their own are put in situations where they must either flee or stand and defend to not only survive but thrive. I grew up in the Middle East, in Iraq, often fearing for my very life because my father, an engineer, worked for a company that had contracts with the United States Army, which was not favored by those who opposed working for the new government and the US forces. While most children were in school learning their times tables, I was learning to fire a rifle to preserve my life and that of my family. Now, that I’m in the US and have graduated as a civil engineer, I look forward to continue my education in petroleum engineering. My specific study interests are, but not limited to: fluid transportation processes, the drilling process, embedded network systems, and production engineering. Every step of my life has a significant role in my goal; where I was born, the culture that I was raised in, early age experience, professional experience, moving between countries with different cultures, and my educational background.
Growing up I always had a desire to work outdoors in the field. I have also always had good logical and spatial intelligence and have enjoyed taking things apart and putting them back together. I’m curious about how things work around me; it steered me to get a better physical and mental interaction with the world. That is my first reason why I choose engineering for a degree and career. Moreover, I grew up around engineers, my father, my mother, and others in the family. I had the advantage over many students because I grew up seeing the world from an engineering perspective. For example, I remember helping my dad drill some water wells for our farms back home. It is an experience that very few eight years old children get to have. Using very simple methods and tools we were able to reach decent depths. However, those tools were not capable in special cases; we had to make our own equipments due to the lack of variety of hardware back then, mostly because of the economic sanction. I’m confident that this is the reason why I’m interested in petroleum engineering. [Continues]
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