Bard College Application Research Paper

I think it is safe to say math has always been a passion of mine. I remember learning to count to 1000 in first grade. When I was finally able to do it without any help, it was like swimming for the first time, eating the ripe tomatoes I grew myself, or putting together a new song on the guitar. The feeling of accomplishment cannot be recreated. As we get older, this feeling becomes more difficult to achieve. This only increases my motivation and determination to learn something new. AP calculus has been a roller coaster of learning. Despite the struggle and rigor, I learned valuable skills that will help me in my future aspirations. Taking the AP Calculus exam gave me a rush of accomplishment. I have built a knowledge base because I am constantly

After a semester at Auburn, I was not so sure of my dream. I had realized that Architecture was not all fun and drawing. Math is not a favored subject for me even though I am good at it. I had always been in Honors Math classes and was on math team in junior high until I

As a student at CMU, I believe this is the ideal environment for me to achieve my dreams. I believe I do not have the typical aspirations of others, I just have one goal that may seem simple yet also slightly daunting: to be happy. I believe by obtaining a degree in something I am passionate about would help me achieve this lifelong goal. I don’t believe that one day I will randomly wake up and feel very passionately about something, but I believe by becoming more involved in something that I have a small interest in, could blossom into a passion. Although I have not declared a major, I have found my happy place at CMU in the lab, which honestly shocked me. It is a way to apply my knowledge learned in lecture to real hands on experience which helps solidify the information. Currently I am an undeclared major, however, I have definitely narrowed my major selection down to a science. College hasn’t just advanced my academics, but it has also helped me gain valuable life experiences. I have learned how to shop on a budget and learn how to manage my time. With these valuable life experiences I believe I will be more ready to enter the real world after I graduate.

Math is a subject that I have struggled with for a very long time; it is something that I always set aside. Math is something that I never saw myself using in my future and I thought if I put it off it would just disappear. When I came to the University I had to take Math 100 and Math SAX, which, unfortunately set me back on finishing math quite a bit because I did not put in the effort as much as I should have, and the amount of work they gave, was quite an overload. I took those courses twice and was still not put into a Math course at the University. That is when I started to push math away, but I have realized I cannot put it off and math is definitely important and we do need to know the subject no matter where we go in life or regardless

but I still didn’t consider it one of my favorite subjects or even realize how interested in the courses that I was. When I got into high school I began to see that I really enjoyed my mathematics courses. The material interested me and I enjoyed the solving

Since elementary school, I have always found myself fully engaged in math classes. In third grade, I began to speed up my education by completing two courses in one year. I repeated this in fourth grade to get even further ahead of my classmates. Due to my passion for math, I continued to pursue the subject throughout middle school and ended up at the very top of my class in math upon graduation. I also continued along this path in high school and by my senior year I will have taken every math course that has ever been offered to me. I enjoy the subject because it fosters inventiveness and challenges me to find new ways to solve problems. Math has allowed me to think in a logical manner in all situations and is the reason for my success in

Mathematics and several forms of science is involved in the several careers that I want to work in, and the sciences can explain the universe around us; because of that, I am extremely interested in studying life. Also, mathematics is a very logical and precise subject, and I am very dependent upon logic to make good decisions.

I have always been interested and achieved at math. I push myself to experience all types of math like calculus and statistics

As a child, math has been one of my greatest interests. As a freshman, I took Algebra 2 which is still, till this day, one of my favorite classes to be enrolled in. While taking this class, I learned how much someone can do with math and all of the possibilities with different formulas and values. This year, I am enrolled in math analysis and trigonometry. With this class being more challenging than Algebra 2 I am able to differentiate the different types of math I can use in my current school

“Are you sure you’re in the right class? This is AP Physics.” Engineering was no longer my dream, but I still loved mathematics and physics. I maintained high grades in advanced level courses within these disciplines, while learning painting and three dimensional modeling. I spent half the school day in the office, having to get

Until I started middle school, I never really felt like science or math were something I was interested in. I didn’t even know what engineering was, to be exact. Sure, I did well in my science and math classes, but I never saw them in my future. During my first year of middle school, at a STEM middle school nonetheless, I really started to enjoy it. I liked the discipline of putting things into systems, I liked organizing and categorizing, and I liked the more hands-on aspects of creating and conducting experiments to test hypotheses.

Part 1: We all sometimes wonder why math is required for any field, but what about math being required for Engineering? I wondered the same thing. While researching the degree prior to enrolling into Grantham University, I came to realize that math plays a huge part. From structural plans to reporting a geological finding, they both require mathematic skills. The diversity of Engineering is what drew me to explore this type of degree. After considerable research, I came to the conclusion that regardless of my fears with higher levels of math, I will face the challenge and go for my goals. I feel good with learning higher levels of math and look forward to that as well. Life's a journey and I plan on taking it with every bit of passion and humbleness. With math being a part of the liberal arts curriculum, I, without looking into that on the educational side, I hear, open to a standard general knowledge. Looking in the dictionary it reads, concerned mainly with broadening a person's general knowledge and experience, rather than with technical or professional training. I

Math has always been my favorite subject in school and I will always be curious about how the world worked that is how science will capture my attention. I was in a program in middle school called AVID that prepared me for high school and got me to start thinking about college. This program is what introduced me to a high school program called Project Lead The Way (PLTW). It was an engineering program that taught me what engineering is and the different types of engineering. Once I knew it involved math and science, I was eager to join the program, it seems interesting and fun to be a part of. I submitted an application to be part of PLTW and I got accepted, I have been part of Project Lead The Way for 3 years. As a matter of fact, I became interested in Civil Engineering when we build bridges in PLTW. With your partner,

In junior High School, things started to turn around for me. Although I was still placed in lower level classes, I developed a love for learning. In the years to come from Junior High to High School, I had a strong urge to make up for lost time. One class I started to excel in was the one I used to have the most trouble with, Mathematics. It seemed as though the once boring and complex equations now seemed meaningful and simple. As I progressed into 8th grade, I was able to advance to normal classes. I felt that the hard work I put in was finally paying of. At this point, I felt that I could handle a higher level. At the end of 8th grade, I took the necessary procedures and tests to try and get into honor - level courses in 9th grade. After taking a summer course of Algebra 1 and several tests I was able to succeed and take the classes. The experience was great. I felt that I was finally going the right direction

It was the first time I played a card game with my grand-parents, when I knew I had a liking for numbers. Since then, my love for numbers grew with every math course I took and it continues to grow even to this day. At thirteen years old, someone mentioned to me the possibility of being an Actuary. From the time I researched exactly what it was, I knew it was what I wanted to pursue. I understood that it is a difficult career path but my determination has led me to this point and hasn’t wavered since the first day. Graduate study is just another step in the career path I chose and the fact that I come a Caribbean family, where none of my immediate family has gone to grad school only motivates me even more.