I realized that to truly pursue my interest I needed to attend a top university and I worked hard in high school to achieve this goal. I was able to do just that and secured admission into BITS Pilani through the most competitive engineering entrance exam in the country with a selection ratio of 3% with an additional requirement of 80% in Physics, Chemistry and mathematics. While choosing my specialization I examined the structure of the programs offered and realized that, being a more balanced course, the M.Sc. (Tech.) in Information Systems would best meet my goals and ambitions. The multidisciplinary curriculum at BITS Pilani exposed me to diverse courses ranging from computer science and engineering to economics and management to biology. But it was the computer science and engineering related courses that further developed my latent interest. During my second year, the Practical Electrical and Electronics Engineering course gave me the opportunity to experiment with transistors, capacitors, inductors, resistors etc. Building an FM transmitter capable of transmitting at variable frequencies further piqued my interest in computer engineering. In Computer Architecture and Organization course, I implemented LC-3 architecture with all necessary components including registers, APU, instruction data paths, memory including instruction pipeline architecture using Verilog. In Operating System course, I developed custom command line interpreter using C and implemented several features like directory changing, command execution etc., I also implemented threading, resource sharing using semaphores and monitors using C. During my final year, I interned for 6 months at Symantec R&D facility in Pune, India. I... middle of paper... quite credible in academia and research. With its flexibility in academic curriculum and a healthy mix of courses on offer, it offers the perfect opportunity for students to work in their chosen fields. Labs like the High Performance Computing Laboratory with projects like High Performance, Energy Efficient and Secure Cluster by Prof. Eun Jung Kim are also in the same vein as my area of ​​interest since storage forms an integral part of clusters and distributed systems. Graduate studies under renowned faculty at a leading graduate school like Texas A&M University would be in perfect alignment with my long-term goal of becoming a researcher in the field of computer science. Given my skills and desire to succeed, I believe I am an ideal candidate for the undergraduate research program in computer science at Texas A&M University and can actively contribute to and initiate cutting-edge research.