Let's talk about awards and accomplishments. And this kind of ties into research as well. Doing research is really, really important. Not only are you building a really strong relationship with one of your professors, building a really strong connection, but at the same time, you're learning more about your interests, your passions, and you can potentially write a thesis, a paper that's never been written before, talk about something that's never been discovered before. That's really cool and amazing, and a great accomplishment. Other things like scholarships, awards from clubs or sports that you're playing are really important as well and look really good to something I did was be a part of the golden key society and I got an award for that. So that was really cool. You know, the more that you can do here, the better. Alright, let's talk about experience and skills now.
And this is really important as well. Pursuing internships over the summer, or even part time internships over the school year, looks really great. And at the same time, you kind of get that professional experience being in the work environment, being around professionals being guided by engineers who have tons of experience. It's really valuable not even just for graduate school, but for life in general. learning different programs, you know, depending on what engineering you're going into, for me personally civil engineering, we use a lot of GIS, AutoCAD, sometimes MATLAB, things like that, you know, learning that at an internship with practical problems. And experience is really, really important. So, like I said before with your internships, gaining that professional experience and doing different work, practical work, not just filing or stapling papers for your, for your engineer, your supervisor, but doing actual work is really important for your skill set and will really help you stand out. So that's definitely important as well.
All right, last but not least, is going to be your personal writing. And pretty much you're going to be asked for any program that you apply for, not just engineering, why you're interested in this program, why you're interested in this field of engineering, you know. And for this, I really recommend sitting down, kind of writing your ideas thinking about who you were as a person in high school and in our undergraduate curriculum. Why are you pursuing this? Is it just for the money you know, is it just because someone told you to do it, it's a great job? Try to really dig deep and find that passion and fire behind why you're doing this. If you're going to graduate school, there's got to be a reason why you really want to pursue more education here, why you want to go to school longer. So sit down, write some ideas down, really think hard about this, you know, they don't want to just hear something bland. And you know it's unoriginal here. Be passionate. And please don't be the only one that reads your writing. Make sure you have multiple people read over your essay. You know, edit it up. It's so much it's so beneficial to have multiple people read over your work.
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