My best (and favorite) subject in school is Math. Ever since I was very little I have loved math, and worked very hard at it. When I do not fully understand topics I do extra problems to make sure that they become clear to me. I spend a lot of time working on math to make sure I understand the topics throughly. I have been in math clubs since 4th grade, and in 7th grade I represented my school at the MathCounts® competition where I won a two silver pins. I won the Virginia State Math Award in 7th grade, and this year I got an 800 in math on my SSAT. As a result of my hard work I am currently one of three students in my school to be in the highest math group, Precalculus. My greatest talent is my ability to follow up on topics that I am interested in, usually by reading about them. For example, I became interested in how people become famous mathematicians so I read Men of Mathematics, a very long book that illustrates the lives of 30 different mathematicians. Also, a character on House is afflicted with a degenerative disease, Huntington’s chorea, a disease caused by having too many of a certain chromosome. This sparked my interest in genetics. To learn more about genes I read a book called Genome, which had a chapter on each of the 23 chromosomes. Finally, in Physics we are learning about motion and vectors, but nothing abstract, so I decided to am reading A Brief History of Time. If I could spend a day learning about one topic, it would be geolocation. I became interest in geolocation when it came up as one of the applications for conics in my Precalculus class. When I realized that conics could be used for geolocation I went home to my father and asked him to teach me more about it. Eventually, I got him to come into o... ... middle of paper ... ...ssey of the Mind for four years now and have won several awards. In 5th, 6th, 7th, and 8th grade our team has one 1st place at the Thomas Jefferson Invitational Spontaneous competition. In 5th grade we one 3rd place at regionals, in 6th grade we won 2nd, in 7th grade we one 1st at regionals, advanced to states where we won 1st, and eventually won 10th place at worlds (out of about 60 teams.) We have not competed yet this year but hopefully we will do well. I would love to go to a school with a math, science, and technology focus because I have always been better at math, science, and technology, and a school with this kind of focus would be able to provide me the best. Most other schools would not be able to compensate my math level, and not have the proper facilities to assist in my many experiments. Also, if I get into such a school, I am certainly going.
I am an avid reader who gets a lot of inspiration from reading books and articles. My selection of reading materials cuts across a host of topics, from personal development, philanthropic philosophies, business acumen to leadership. One of the most inspiring books in my shelf is titled “The Essential Drucker” written by Peter Drucker. I also believe in sharing what I learn with my staff members as this can go a long way to motivate them and move to a particular direction.
Mathematics will always be a part of my life, it helped me establish my reputation as a good student and hope it will always be a part of me. In High school I participated in the competition for Rockland, I was very please with my accomplishment. I took second place in the Ramapo School District and placed first for my school. As a result, I received a math rewards during which was extremely helpful. I was absolutely overjoyed to have represented my school and be the first student in my school who actually take a math trophy. I am very much looking forward to this class.
There are a lot of reasons why I chose to pursue pharmacy as my career and they all point to the most important reason: pharmacy is a great fit for my life and is something I have become increasingly passionate about. It started when I was researching careers with my parents and my dad suggested pharmacy and, simply put, it sparked my interest because at the time it was one of the few things I thought I would not hate doing. A healthcare career has always been where I put myself in the future, mainly because most of my family members are in the healthcare field. However, I have never been one that could directly help the wounded or deal with anything gory, but am very intrigued by the growing science of pharmacy. As I continue exploring pharmacy, the more I enjoy learning about it and feel like I could excel in this career.
I have a great affection for math. I enjoy math, since it is challenging and requires a lot of thinking. There are always multiple ways to solve any type of math problems, and I always get a feeling of accomplishment when I find the correct solution. In sixth grade, when I first heard of the Math Club, I immediately registered. The teacher told me that I was the only one and she needed more members or the club would have to be cancelled. Worried, I recruited about ten of my friends to join the Math Club. Hence, she named me as the team leader. Participants in the Math Club competed in multiple math competitions. I was chosen one of the ten students that represented my school at the Torrance Regional Middle School Math Competition. That year, I received a certificate for the highest point total for the Math Olympiads competition at my school. In addition, I placed third in the AMC 8 and my score was among the top five percent of all participants. Participating in math competitions has given me the challenges that I am always looking for, taught me good study habits, and how to handle pressure.
Whoosh!A bed whizzed by, surrounded by about 6 medical personnel. “What’s going on?” I thought immediately with apprehension. I knew whatever was happening it was not ideal. Ensuring I was not in the way, I stood on my toes to see what demanded so much attention. To my astonishment, I saw a coin sized hot-pink little girl. She could not have been bigger than two quarters lying side by side.She was struggling! Even with all the procedures the doctors were executing to save her life, she was performing the most work.
After his visit to a Shell Research Laboratory, my high school teacher in math told us in class that he was so happy with his education, because mathematics had helped him to understand the explanations and demonstrations that had been given by the Shell researchers. He said, "If you master mathematics then you can understand everything." That was certainly an exaggeration, but it nevertheless sounded like a golden message. Since I definitely wanted to have a better understanding of what was going on around me, mathematics seemed the obvious way to go. Also, if it was not much beyond high school math, then it was pretty easy in addition. What could one wish more? So I enrolled in every advanced math class offered in our high school. Pretty soon I discovered that mathematics was much more than a set of principles that helped one to solve intellectual riddles. It was not a finished system that one could aim to master after some limited time, but it was really a way of thinking, a means of expressing creativity: endless, an old established science, but still fresh and with undiscovered green meadows, nearby and far away.
For some reason, you want to know about my math life. It's about as interesting as my social life, which is pretty non-existent (this is my attempt at humor. I’m trying, I really am). I took Algebra 1 Honors at Frost in 7th grade. My teacher was Ms. Healy. I liked her as a teacher because she taught efficiently and she was funny. I took Geometry Honors at Frost in 8th grade; my teacher was Mrs. Beach. I hated Geometry mostly because I had an awful teacher. I ended up teaching myself from the textbook. I took Algebra 2 honors because I didn't feel like taking a regular course because I have some sort of dignity I feel I have the need to maintain. I've always liked math to some extent, so I chose honors. In Algebra 2 Honors, I hope to get at
I really don’t read much. But when I find a book I like I read it a lot. I mostly read sports books because I really like sports. My biggest
In early years, my mother exhaustingly tried to jumpstart my passion for reading with every Dr.Seuss and Disney book available once my attention span surpassed five minutes. In older years, literary attempts were made with Jeff Kinney, Roald Dahl and J.K.
Besides this immersion into a world of books, I credit my love of reading to the fact that my parents only let me watch an hour of TV a day. I learned to use my mind and imagination to entertain myself. It's not really surprising that literature became my vocation. When not reading or writing, I enjoy watching films, baking, going to the city to eat Thai and Ethiopian food, walking, and relaxing with my friends.
always enjoyed math and science throughout my education and I have recognized that I can
As I mentioned earlier all my experience with books and reading were not bad. I was in middle school when I read two books that I really captivated my attention. One was a biography of Harriet Tubman and the story of the Underground Railroad. I admired Harriet Tubman for her selfness and dedication to freeing slaves.
My enthusiasm and the strongly committed teachers I have encountered in my life have attributed to my success in math and science. Prior to going onto ninth grade, my Math classes dating back from middle school were never mentally straining. Math appealed to me because in eighth grade, my math teacher, Dr. Christopher, would encourage her class by recognizing our achievements with small rewards such as candies and ice cream passes during lunch. Her actions sparked my interest in math. I have a natural regard for math and science. By breaking down math problems step by step, I can better understand them. ...
My parents instilled a passion for reading in me even as a toddler; years later, an excellent,
Math is a subject has always and will continue to pulled my interests. This was because it was a subject that would lead me to a single unique answer. Once I started to attend high school, physics then opened up another interest, not only with math, but an interest in Math with actual application into the real world. With physics, it allowed me to see how math could be used to predict events. The classes that I have taken that has shaped my interests for my major of science in mathematics are Physics, and Computer Science.