The Importance Of Hard Work

“AIM HIGH ALWAYS AND WORK ‘HARD’ TO REACH YOUR GOAL BECAUSE SUCCESS IS SWEET BUT IT’S SECRET IS ‘SWEAT’.” I have always been inspired by this quote to the extent that belief in the outcomes of hard work has always motivated me to be perseverant in nature. Having this in mind I have had a strong desire to pursue a course of liking for the post graduate phase of my academic life. Right from primary education, I had strived hard to be consistent in performance. In this note I owe greatly to all my teachers who had identified my talents thereby motivating me to study well and achieve more.
During school days, I worked hard and studied till I understood every minutia of the concepts discussed in each class. With optimal efforts and desire to excel, I secured a school 1st rank in my 10th grade with 94.8% (474/500). When I had arrived at the final phase of schooling, I had to face a fork of my life. I had to decide the subjects in which I wanted to major. This might sound trivial but for a boy belonging to a family with mother being a graduate in Law and father being a Chartered Accountant, I had a tough time trying to make a decision. Family pressure drove me to follow their footsteps. But within me, that passion for mathematics and physics persuaded me to be very clear in making my final move and this is exemplified by the CERTIFICATE OF DISTINCTION IN SCIENCE which I got from UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES, AUSTRALIA for being among the top 4% of the participants in the region in the International assessment conducted for Indian schools. Since I had always loved and learnt physics and math at ease, I picked up computer science with Math, Physics and Chemistry. I loved the world of algorithm...

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