My Personal Quest For Knowledge

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biology, I realized that I wanted to actually apply knowledge that is learned into the

I hold scholarship in high esteem, as education sparks the destruction of ignorance and the creation of a better world. I am driven toward knowledge in an effort to eradicate the hostility that has grown rampant in our world today, and I shall forever exercise commitment as well as diligence in my efforts to learn.

It is exciting to discover solutions to problems that affect others, as I am able to do this as I tutor students in algebra and chemistry at Montana State University Billings. I take an active interest in math and science and plan to get a degree in Chemical Engineering with a teaching options with the hope of being there to develop the next lithium ion battery, invent a new material to replace plastic, or develop a new liquid to replace soda. I love sharing math and science with college students and have specifically enjoyed helping out a disabled college student. Students are extraordinary in their own way. Finding out how to help them discover and share their gifts is

I am fascinated by the science field. It is constantly changing through new discoveries. I find it very interesting that everything in this field may not be true and can be proven wrong. There is nothing set in stone and through these new discoveries we are able to back up theories and hypotheses or prove them wrong and in turn opening up new areas of study. I also like knowing why things happen and the reasoning behind them. My favorite class right now is General Biology I because I am able to understand the body and why things happen. I am able to make connections about why things happen. We are currently learning about genetics and I am able to see that Down Syndrome also referred to as Trisomy 21. I can connect the two names together because “tri” means 3 resulting in 3 chromosomes of number 21. I loved being able to make connections where the “light bulb” in my head goes off. Another

I find that the most interesting thing to learn about in STEM is yourself. While we’re working to unravel the mysteries of the universe, we’ve hardly scratched the surface in our own bodies! That’s why I have a fascination with molecular genetics. Unraveling the enigma that is DNA is one of the most daunting tasks I could think of, and I want nothing more than to be able to make contributions to that in my lifetime. Molecular genetics can be applied in almost any field imaginable, from fighting cancer, to going into space! Understanding ourselves is one of the most fundamental thing that humans have yet to accomplish, and that simply is astounding! I’m very passionate about this particular topic, and have poured through hours after hours of

Although I am still just an undergraduate, I have had the great fortune to already participate in the academic community through research. Specifically, I have been worked for my P.I., Tim P. Szczykutowicz, within the medical physics department of the Wisconsin Institute

Learning how simple, everyday tasks are performed on a molecular level fascinates me more than anything else. Developing a higher understanding of things that seem so unadorned helps me bring sanity into this thing we call school. Building onto this at the collegiate level gets me giddy with excitement. My current grasp of things has helped me look at life after death in somewhat of a scientific way. Looking at the process of evolution, along with the cycle of minerals makes you look at things more simply, rather than theologically. So many processes are necessary to go about life, it boggles one's mind to think they all coexist well enough to create one single being. There is no way that conscious being just dissolves into the world that he was made from. I hope to find a happy medium here one day.

Since the beginning of life, humans and our ancestors have strived to make our lives better. Dawning from the discovery of fire to the invention of the phone, each idea and creation spark a revolution of curiosity. Beliefs build off each other, humans hypothesize, improve each other virtually creating a cycle of myths and beliefs waiting to be proven. These unproven ideas provoke curiosity within me stimulating my passion, and enthusiasm for STEM. Only realizing the fact of how much of the world we don’t know drives my craving. Whenever I look around, I always wonder how something functions, or how the system of gears goes on to support another mechanism to operate an activity. These systems lead to a whole new realm of interest, stepping towards a cycle. Learning also can be brought to a different level, making it a distinct way to understand our universal life.

Ever since I can remember, I have been obsessed with mechanical systems. Every birthday and Christmas I asked for a remote control car or plane, only to end up taking them apart the same day. I was passionately curious about how and why the world worked. My mother, a professor of Biology, recalls my insatiable curiosity and that I was always asking “why?” As I grew older that interest shifted more towards the mystery of life; how was it possible that everything we know is the result of a chance organization of molecules to form complex cell networks? It was about this time that I was filling out college applications and I decided to major in Bioengineering and minor in physics. I felt that this would enable me to understand the biological

My interest in biology stems from my inquisitive nature and love of discovery. Science is always changing as information is shared and people build on one another’s research. The field of biology is particularly dynamic as new technology gives scientists tools to conduct research in ways that were previously impossible. Biology excites me for the simple reason that there is always more to learn. It is amazing to think that the concepts we learn in class were unheard of when even my youngest teachers were in school. Take introns, segments of nucleic acid that do not code for proteins. We learn about them now as concrete ideas, as sure as the ground beneath our feet. It is hard to imagine that they were discovered just four decades ago. Even

At the end we got our win, not for a tittle, not for glory, but for our own joy. On the other hand, there is no better feeling than helping a fellow science aficionado who stands in the same ground I once was. It is that sense of wonder of the unknown that with certainty I can say they are in, that I just want to lessened in order to only substantially increase their admiration on the vast abyss of knowledge. I have not spent a second tutoring UIL science wishing I would be doing something else. In fact, I can honestly say I have not lived richer moments than those next to my UIL teammates, or better yet, my science family. Surprisingly, those who I thought I would be teaching, ended up illuminating me in ways a textbook never would. Firstly, in Einstein’s brilliant words, “if you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough”, there is not a quote that resonates with my own experiences such as the antecedent. By tutoring I have not only facilitated an individual’s understanding, but I have solidified mine. Lastly, they have enlightened me by making me see knowledge, or success worthless if not shared. What makes a person rich is not the quantity of currency possessed, but how has that person utilized his life to make someone else’s worth

Finding out how and why things work and discovering how products are made has always my passion. I regularly watch engineering and science shows on the television. From my childhood, I have always been a very curious person who would not believe just because someone told me, but I had to know the reason behind it. Science always fascinated me, and I always wondered how we remained on the ground and never fell off something that is spherical. In school I was more interested in maths and science rather than History or Arts and this made me choose Chemistry, maths and physics as my Higher subjects. This has helped me appreciate how Science has been utilised to improve man’s life and make it easier. It is because of this that I would like to

The lens of Natural Science awakened a desire to know more about the world around me and what makes it tick. I am learning to be aware of even the smallest thing. No, I have no plans in the immediate future to create experiments and test hypothesis, but I am intrigued by the concept and desire to know more about things like the cosmos and issues like solving

From an early age I used to read science books, journals, magazines and watch engineering documentaries driven by my eagerness to gain a better understanding of the mechanism by which our world system is working.