Before I decided to enroll at Old Dominion University, I was transferred from a four-year college at Longwood University, where I study in the fields of physics as my first-year college major. During my three years at Longwood University, I was part of a STEM program known as LIFE STEM where a group of highly innovative students in one of four STEM majors with strong and curious desire in becoming future scientist researchers as their future. 

In our first year of the LIFE STEM program, our objective is to find various solutions on how to save Chesapeake Bay from things such as pollution, invasive species, sediments, etc. before they become major throughout the Bay. We also visited a small island known as Tangier Island, where we observed and found information from the people who lived on the island along with gathering samples such as fish, microplastic, sediments, and water. From this experience of the Life STEM program, I started to get an interesting habit of writing a scientific report while working on this project along with knowing the rest of the Life STEM students where we work dignity and creative ways in saving the Bay. Regardless of how the experience was, it was a great and strong feeling working in the fields of science. 

After hearing about the LeADERS program at Old Dominion University, I wish to become more successful and diverse not as an engineer but as a scholar who seeks knowledge about our beloved planet Earth and beyond. As a future mechanical engineer, I want to experience the real-world engineering problems and create innovative thoughts and projects that can change the entire world we all live in.