In-class

I have always been fascinated by technology. Anything that is supposed to be the latest and greatest gadget really catches my eye. For many years now, Sharper Image has been my favorite catalog; even more so than the sports apparel magazines. I am intrigued by the transformation of technology over the years, from my family’s first computer to our 200 GB desktop, or even from our super-slow AOL dial-up to our wireless DSL network. For a period of time in high school I was extremely fascinated by nanotechnology, because that is where I saw the world of technology going. It seemed as though everything was trying to incorporate nanotechnology in an effort to make gadgets smaller, faster, and more powerful than their predecessors. Since that time I have shifted more to the area of consumer electronics—everything from iPods to laptops to cell phones to TVs. I was so intrigued by these things that I even wrote my admission essay to Stanford on the success of Steve Jobs in his creation of the iPod, and how this has become an international icon. Needless to say, it worked.