From designing and planning video game stages I wish existed, to developing skills in martial arts that eventually led me to get my black belt, my childhood consisted of displaying my creativity. I continued to express this in high school where I was exposed to a technological design course and solved multidisciplinary problems using advanced technology. Above all, this course helped to elucidate that technology has a major impact on our lives and in the world around us. Knowing that I could use these skills to confer societal benefits, it became apparent that I wanted to pursue a career in this direction. From that point forward, I began my journey of studying Systems Design Engineering.