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Personal Statement: Working With Computers

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Common App My room is very messy, with things taken apart, broken, or in need of a new owner in just about every corner, and my desk is cluttered with screwdrivers, wires, and various phone parts. I like to take things apart, fix them, or make new things from the broken ones. I enjoy working with my hands, and working with mechanical things because I am a visual learner, and it is very easy for me to learn how things work by looking at part. When I want to build something, I normally just think of a design in my head, and build it based on that, I have worked with many different things, from mechanical watches, to cars, to phones and other electronics. Because of my knowledge of mechanical things, I am able to use a lot of that knowledge and apply it to electronic things, mostly electronics that are …show more content…

When I’m getting started on a project, I begin by researching the idea, I usually find other people’s ideas from similar projects, or if I don’t find anything on the idea, I ask a forum, because there probably is a reason why people don’t do the same thing. Sometimes it is simply due to personal preference. For example, I would like to make my computer better for graphics oriented programs,and I found something that allows one to use a graphics card (GPU) on a laptop, so I looked at doing that, but in order to have the system in the laptop, I will remove parts such as the cooling system,and cd drive to make the GPU fit in the cd drive, and make my own cooling system, and have an external cd drive. Once I have the design, i figure out a parts list, and then I look for prices of those parts. When looking for parts, I like to use Ebay. Ebay is a great resource because I can find things used, or new, and usually for very cheap. Once I have a price list, I decide whether

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