Computers rule the world.

They simultaneously connect us, yet simultaneously divide us

all. In my little town, there are very few people that know anything about them, and when they
do, I make a note to not forget it. I don’t know any particular programming languages, nor do I
know everything or even anything about computers. I do know, however, that I want to know
more. It’s a particular fascination with the tiny pixels on my screen that lures me to the outward
bounds of the future. It is this future that I want to help shape. I visited Ann Arbor in the Spring
of 2018, and at that time I knew that I was going to go to this school. However, I much more
recently came to campus with the goal of feeling what it means to be a Wolverine, and I think
I’ve grasped it - difference. If you sat at the Diag at any point of the day you would find yourself
asking questions to each and every pupil that passed through there. Each face carries a unique
story with their own experiences and their own life on this campus. It is a coalescence of spirit
and a concoction of vigor for a common goal - the future. It is here our matter of difference in
who we happen to be is just as important as what connects us all. As large as U of M may be, I
am connected to it through my differences, as I am in my own home town of Tawas. The
University of Michigan takes those seeking a better future and uses their resolve to enlighten the
generations of the present and future. It is the individual spirit that makes or breaks revolutionary
ideas and it is here that it is cultivated. Every university tries to highlight our differences to the
best of their capability, and yet U of M does it differently. They - no, we do this differently
because the difference matters. The difference between who we are and what we aspire to be
fuels the future - that’s the difference of blue. Our differences make us like computers.
Computers are the future. They divide and connect us every step of the way, and like computers,
we learn within the given times and parameters of our past and current lives. We are the future.
However, Computers don’t know what we know. Computers don’t quite understand the struggle
that people go through. Computers don’t quite understand the suffering of people across
continents and in third world countries. Computers could never understand. That’s why humans
rule the world. We simultaneously connect and divide each other every day, and at the home of
the Wolverines, the lives we lead will further the future. It is these lives that will make the future
a better place. It is my life that will make the future a better place at the University of Michigan-
Ann Arbor in the College of Engineering studying in Computer Science Engineering.
 Computers have to be told what they know and what they don’t know. In a way,
computers are infantile messes of fanatic coding that someone dreamt up in the recess of their
mind - and aren’t we similar? The future dawns upon us and with it we think of new ways to
think about thinking of thinking! We are collections of the past and present simultaneously and
much like technology we are constantly evolving.

Much like everyone in their junior year, you think you have a plan and you really, really don’t.
The campus was big - a single building feeling like my entire town put into one habitat container
you’d see in a sci-fi movie kind of big. There was something magical about the air - not actually,
it was just the rain - and I loved it. Many emotions are intangible and malignant to human words,
so I will try my best to put it into words - I felt that I could make a difference. There’s a
connection that all of our brains make that flips a switch and we suddenly realize reality. I feel it
everyday in my AP classes, but this was a place that it radiated about like a lingering perfume. I
know plenty of people that seek a college out on the idea that it’s the step before becoming an
adult, but I don’t quite agree. It is at this point in everyone's life that we must come to realize that
the future needs each and every one of us. The things we learn and the people we meet will shape
us for the future ahead of us, and I know it’s going to be a great one. I promised myself that I
would make a change in this world, and I know I will - I just need to figure out how. It is at the
College of Engineering at The University of Michigan - Ann Arbor where I will begin.

Luckily for me, I’ve had this plan to pursue computer science and computer engineering since I
was in sixth grade - and I haven’t given that up.