Dhruv Ketankumar Patel

I completed my schooling back in the city of Ahmedabad which is situated in Gujarat, India. As a child, I was a sincere and introvert guy whose aim was to be a guy who always wants to top in his class. The time started running and i started growing with the understandings and maturity which comes with the age. At a very early, I develop the interest in Mathematics at a very early age which is depicted by me participating in national maths olympiad five times and winning 3rd position once nationwide. I didn't top the class but I was always in top 5 positions in my class throughout the school days. With my advent in my adolescence, I started growing interest in Physics and was always curious to learn the physics behind the nature. This curiosity helps me to participate in various science fair nationwide where I depicted various science model during the fair and spreading awareness in the society regarding physics.The interest in Mathematics and Physics at very early age helps me to choose Engineering as my goal of my life. I was always curious to know the mechanics behind everything which helps me to pursue Mechanical engineering as a profession. My biggest inspiration and role model of my life is my father. He always backed me to achieve my goals. When I was in the 9th grade with my finals going on at the middle of exam I was called by my teacher for an emergency call. It was my Uncle on the phone who called me that they are on a way to pick me up from the school as my Father met with the accident. My biggest fear of my life emerged and it happened my father died in that road accident. I went through depression at that stage. The life started to become gloomy at that time. The people whom my father helped at that time didn't even come to support me and my family. My mother is just an simple housewife who even didn't completed her college and got married to my father. All my fathers business which he built throughout his life started becoming shady. The clients whose bills were pending take advantage of the situations and they didn't pay their bills owned by my father's company. At that moment my grandfather emerged for us who knows all legal understandings of the business and he rented all two factories to his friends which generated enough revenue for my family to run our livelihood. I got out of my depression to pursue my goal in the life. I got admitted to one of the finest engineering college in our place because of my good grades and performance in high school. I was going well with my studies and was taking every step closer to be a mechanical engineer. During my college days, I donated blood for the red cross society which helped me realize my duty towards the society. I joined as a volunteer to the organization where I participated in various blood donation camps in rural areas. During my time in the camps I learned more of people in rural areas and their suffering from poverty where I realized my goal as a human. I realized that there are many people in the India who are deprived of even necessary food for their existence. I realized that as engineer I should contribute something for the society. The major population of rural areas in India depends on farming as their livelihood. It is because of some selfish people in the world had given birth to some issues like global warming, lacked of technology and equipment’s , illiteracy in rural areas etc these farmers are living bellow poverty line. I decided to learn about some new technologies in the world that drives me to pursue my higher education in the United States. I want to apply my knowledge to built new equipments and technologies which will help these farmers to get out from all their difficulties. I want to serve to the people in the world through my knowledge and skills that I learned as an engineer and most importantly as a human.