Deafening cheers erupted throughout the exhibition hall, rivaling the shouting announcer. Signs bearing team names and numbers swayed in the air as mascots jumped and danced. However, none of those signs boasted my team’s number, and our two Buff n’ Blue mascots were nowhere to be found. Our entire section of the bleachers did not move; everybody sat motionless, in a stunned silence, wondering what had just happened. This marked the ending to my first high school robotics season....

Up until recently, the name Carnegie Mellon was of no importance to me aside from discussions of Andrew Carnegie’s exploits and philanthropic activities in my US history class. However once my guidance counselor listed Carnegie Mellon as a “good fit” school something inside of me wanted to know more. Pursuing this interest opened my eyes to Carnegie Mellon’s true nature: a place where I could pursue my interest in engineering whilst maintaining a passion for playing music. As...

Engineering interests me so much because of what we, as humans, are able to create together. The sheer amount of cooperation and innovation that engineering promotes is why I love being on my school’s robotics team; the collaboration involved lies on a scale I had not encountered before. I had experienced a sense of unity with each of my woodwind quintets, but that was only five people. However, when our twenty plus member robotics team comes together as one...

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