 What's up guys it's Josh and we're back again with another video. Today we're going to take a look at another one of my college essays. For any of you out there that are interested in studying engineering or applying to one of the engineering schools of the Ivy League colleges, this is the essay and this is the prompt that you will have to write. So here's the essay that is submitted to Princeton and Yale when applying to their engineering schools. As our team gathered around the launch pad all focus was on the rocket. Five. Four. Would it launch? What if the igniter wasn't connected? Three. Two. Was the padding for the egg sufficient? What if our coupler was too tight? Would the parachute deploy? One. There was silence. Suddenly with a puff of gray smoke and a piercing screech our rocket shot hundreds of feet into the clouds. We waited. It slowly descended and softly hit the ground. The egg was intact and we had succeeded. Almost two months of diligent work and testing had paid off. I grew up surrounded by math, science, and aviation. My father was a pilot in the Air Force and he would often tell me war stories of his sorties in the B1 bomber. I was enthralled. He sparked my interest in engineering which has continued to shape my goals in life. I had an affinity for numbers from a very young age. I would fill out blank multiplication tables and find new mathematical patterns in the Fibonacci sequence or Pascal's triangle. My father would often challenge me to paper airplane contests, always explaining the aerodynamics behind his winning plan. When living in Alabama we would upset the neighbors and shoot model rockets from our backyard. Dreams of flight consumed my consciousness. High school marked a transition in my life. I took the hardest courses offered. With basic calculus and physics in my repertoire, I now viewed the world through the optics of a physicist. Constantly trying to reconcile what I had experienced outside of the classroom with what I had learned within. Whether it was optimizing my baseball swing or trying to get the best sound of my violin, I saw physics everywhere. My studies were put into practice with an end-of-the-year AP Physics project. I was tasked with designing and constructing a rocket that would meet specific altitude and flight time performance requirements while safely carrying an egg as a payload. This allowed me the opportunity to apply the concepts and formulas I'd worked so hard to learn. The project was a success, leading my physics teacher to gather students for a new rocketry competition team. As president, I am leading the team to this year's Team America Rocketry Challenge. My team and I are designing and testing a new rocket to the competition specifications for our qualification flights this spring. Although I want to pursue a career in aerospace, my goals are more ambitious. I want to change the world with my research. My generation will lead the resurgence of manned space travel, and I'm determined to use the lessons I have learned in the classroom to bring success to that program. I want to be the Warner Von Braun of the aerospace engineering effort that rejuvenates our nation's space program and puts a man on Mars. And I believe Yale's engineering program is the best way to get there. Alright guys, that was my essay. Hope you guys enjoyed it. I really enjoyed writing this essay for myself because I got to talk about one of my favorite extracurriculars, rocketry team. I think anyone that's pursuing engineering enjoys writing this essay because they get to talk about their own personal experiences in physics and engineering. If you guys are wondering why I haven't been responding to any of your comments or engaging with you guys at all, it's because I'm probably hiking through the mountains in Massachusetts right now. I'm on a pre-orientation trip before I show up to Yale in a couple days, so I'll be back online soon. If you guys enjoyed the video, drop a like and hit that big red subscribe button to support more content for me in the future, especially as I began my transition into college life at Yale. Comment down below any questions or concerns and I'll get to them as soon as possible when I get back. As always, I'll be back again tomorrow at 3 p.m. with another video.