Things Engineers Like: Competition

Competition. It is one aspect that advances the world as it has. Competition seems to be naturally bounded within everyone in the world. I am not saying that in a negative demeanor but more of a neutral manner. In America, children are taught the ways of competition at an early age with physical education like running, dodgeball, and other various sports.

But the competitive nature does not stop growing there. For those savvy in mathematics and science like engineers, competitions in those subjects continue throughout their educational paths. For those skilled in the languages, you have only spelling bees (Just joking, of course). And after their education careers, you can easily compete in trivia about diverse subjects.

Competition can drive us to be better people. I think what drove me to become an engineer were the science competitions in middle and high school like Science Olympiad. It sparked interest in engineering which isn't really taught or shown in the classroom. It is competition that motivated me when I didn't have self-motivation throughout college. And my life's competition with my brother has made me who I am today; that is: a great tennis player, taller than my brother, an engineer, and most importantly of all, a great person, friend, brother, and son.

Technological advances directly result from competition. Would Apple be the largest company without Microsoft? Would the touch-screen be as popular without PDAs? Would Intel have 22 nm chips without AMD? Would Google be as good without AskJeeves or Bing? Probably not (Maybe with the exception of Bing).

So let's compete in a positive way where the world advances the most. (So, not with the "competitive" way Apple is doing it with their lawsuits)