Hey all,
I am planning to pursue my masters in Computer science. Applying for fall 2016. I'm in the process of writing my SOP. I am planning to have this as the intro to the SOP:
"It was three in the morning, and I could hear the frantic spinning of the exhaust fan inside my Macbook. It had been a few hours since I started working on the new authentication feature for my website and a tricky problem had been nagging me for a while. How hard could it be to restrict the Facebook oAuth authentication, to my list of friends alone? I did not want a stranger with a Facebook account accessing my private site. Thirty minutes and a few tweaks later, our wedding website was ready to be published. I was ecstatic. My elation about getting married was compounded by my accomplishment. It was then that I had an epiphany. It dawned upon me that my passion for software programming had proliferated tremendously. Thus, following a six-year stint in the software industry, I began my spadework on getting a higher degree in academia which would help me pursue my passion and embolden me to advance my career by gaining depth in the fields that interest me. "
I wanted to understand if this intro would be decent enough to keep the readers attention.
Some background : I have done my undergraduate in Electrical engineering. Have been working over 6 years in the software industry. Do not have any research paper submission till date. Although I did work on a few white papers in my company.
Thanks.
