Personal Narrative: Mechanical Engineering

Since I was a toddler I have always been into cars and anything automotive. My passion for cars sparked as a young kid growing up watching the fast and furious movies as well as watching my brother work on his 1967 Ford Mustang. To me, they have and always will be apart of me, weather it be the passion or the goal I’m setting out to do, working at Ford Motor Company as a engineer for the performance division, specifically engineering the aerodynamics of the next generation Mustang. My focus has always been to do well in school. Pushed by my parents and siblings to work hard and learn. I always was taught to focus in class and work my best because even if I didn't have the best grades in the class, I was still attempting to be the hardest worker in the room. I also was always growing up with a family of car enthusiasts. From the passion of corvettes and shelby cobras that my dad shared with me to the knowledge of building a car that my brother taught me. I grew up to love cars through video games, toys, and even the real things.
Now, as a kid I never really knew, always went back and forth with the idea of mechanical engineering. After the one night I saw a documentary on the Ford Mustang on Netflix, it clicked. I wanted to specialize in automotive engineering to potentially be the next person to work apart of the Mustang team in Dearborn, Michigan. Not only do I have the passion of cars and prior knowledge but the special connection to the Mustang. As said in the documentary, everyone has a Mustang story. I plan to accomplish this in a very goal specific path. For college, I plan to take courses on mechanical engineering while focusing on the automotive side. I plan to get my Masters degree in mechanical engineering as it is a job that will never go out of