While it can be said that some are born with silver spoons in their mouths, I like to think that I was born with a logic board in my brain. I was fascinated by Windows 2000 computer software at the age of two. My love for tech blossomed into an interest in coding, iPhone jailbreaking, and cybersecurity. While many of my classmates migrated to gaming, I spent my free time surfing tech newsfeeds, such as CNET, and watching Apple’s tutorials...

After college, I hope to run my own tech startup. I am applying to Dartmouth because Thayer is my ideal school for an outstanding engineering education and for accelerating my startup ambitions. When I visited Thayer last August, I had the opportunity to see Dartmouth’s focus on student business, particularly in regards to helping students develop, finance, and patent their goods and services. I like that Thayer’s freshman courses foster collaboration amongst students — an effort essential to the...

My high school was an early adopter of technology use in the classroom but had not made a provision for students when technology went awry. I was part of the first student group to run what we affectionately named the “FixIT” center, but was only ever referred to as the “Help Desk”. Every morning of my sophomore year I arrived at 7 AM to the Library Learning Commons to help students with their devices and Google Apps for Education accounts. For...