Hey,
I have a simple question but I believe that I need to tell a bit about myself. If you just want to read the question, just skip to the last paragraph.
By nature, I was always observant of the world around me and I was a thinker. Although my quest in science began at an early age, Art was my first interest.
During kindergarden, I could only be shown an image and sketch a copy almost exactly as the original. Later, though, I finally began to use my own imagination to sketch landscapes, house plans, characters I enjoyed watching on TV and more.
I was also sensitive to sound. Music crawled into the deeper parts of my mind. I listened mainly to classical because I was exposed to it in my earlier years. I could feel and see the textures of notes. When I heard an orchestrated piece, an image of a landscape would enter my mind's eye. All of this was simply a magical experience for me at that age.
Later, during my kindergarden year, I received the machine that first piqued my imagination in many areas at once, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. When I played (especially Super Mario games), I experienced a world within a world. The art, the music, the way that the environment would react to my actions; it was simply overwhelming. I didn't know what a microprocessor was at that time, nor was I interested in the engineering of the game system, but it opened my mind.
The next year, during first grade, was when my pursuit in science began. That year, my parents bought our first computer. I certainly did not hesitate to began learning how to operate it. At first, I used the computer only to play games on but when I installed educational software on it and later learned to use the internet, there was no stopping me. I learned anything that interested me, from the solar system to the human body to the biographies of important people in history. I could not only recall all of this information verbatim to someone else, but I understood it.
Skipping ahead to sixth grade, by this time, nobody understood anything I was saying. I was always alone. I was the odd guy out. In the seventh and eighth grade, I finally found the curiosity to disassemble some of the machines that made me think in my earlier years, my old Nintendo Entertainment System, computers, clocks, CD players, cell phones, anything digital that I could find. I collected the circuit boards and often, I would take them to school with me. I could tell you quite a bit about computers. I became interested in physics and calculus and I even took a glimpse of the crux of modern theoretical physics, string theory.
Association at school only worsted in high school, but I kept going. I taught myself computer programming in C++ and I started to learn about the architecture of digital systems; logic gates, sequential and combinational.
I have always thought of what I wanted to do in my life. I knew that I didn't want to do a small thing. I have always enjoying finding creative ways to apply science. Put simply, I believe that I want to create.
I want to build electronic devices under my own brand and to become a corporation such as Sony. I have ideas that I would like to bring forth to the world. Now that I am at that point of going to college, I am not sure of what degree that I would need in order to market my ideas. Perhaps you guys can give some advice and/or guidance.
I have a simple question but I believe that I need to tell a bit about myself. If you just want to read the question, just skip to the last paragraph.
By nature, I was always observant of the world around me and I was a thinker. Although my quest in science began at an early age, Art was my first interest.
During kindergarden, I could only be shown an image and sketch a copy almost exactly as the original. Later, though, I finally began to use my own imagination to sketch landscapes, house plans, characters I enjoyed watching on TV and more.
I was also sensitive to sound. Music crawled into the deeper parts of my mind. I listened mainly to classical because I was exposed to it in my earlier years. I could feel and see the textures of notes. When I heard an orchestrated piece, an image of a landscape would enter my mind's eye. All of this was simply a magical experience for me at that age.
Later, during my kindergarden year, I received the machine that first piqued my imagination in many areas at once, the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. When I played (especially Super Mario games), I experienced a world within a world. The art, the music, the way that the environment would react to my actions; it was simply overwhelming. I didn't know what a microprocessor was at that time, nor was I interested in the engineering of the game system, but it opened my mind.
The next year, during first grade, was when my pursuit in science began. That year, my parents bought our first computer. I certainly did not hesitate to began learning how to operate it. At first, I used the computer only to play games on but when I installed educational software on it and later learned to use the internet, there was no stopping me. I learned anything that interested me, from the solar system to the human body to the biographies of important people in history. I could not only recall all of this information verbatim to someone else, but I understood it.
Skipping ahead to sixth grade, by this time, nobody understood anything I was saying. I was always alone. I was the odd guy out. In the seventh and eighth grade, I finally found the curiosity to disassemble some of the machines that made me think in my earlier years, my old Nintendo Entertainment System, computers, clocks, CD players, cell phones, anything digital that I could find. I collected the circuit boards and often, I would take them to school with me. I could tell you quite a bit about computers. I became interested in physics and calculus and I even took a glimpse of the crux of modern theoretical physics, string theory.
Association at school only worsted in high school, but I kept going. I taught myself computer programming in C++ and I started to learn about the architecture of digital systems; logic gates, sequential and combinational.
I have always thought of what I wanted to do in my life. I knew that I didn't want to do a small thing. I have always enjoying finding creative ways to apply science. Put simply, I believe that I want to create.
I want to build electronic devices under my own brand and to become a corporation such as Sony. I have ideas that I would like to bring forth to the world. Now that I am at that point of going to college, I am not sure of what degree that I would need in order to market my ideas. Perhaps you guys can give some advice and/or guidance.
