Statement of Purpose

I am Andrew Soebagio, from Indonesia. I’ve been a student at North for about a year and a half now. I’m planning to graduate from North this upcoming fall, with an AS degree. A major that I have in mind is Petroleum Engineering; hopefully this plan will stick with me till I graduate.

“An algorithm that resists brute force will never become obsolete, no matter how powerful code-breaking computers get. It would become a world standard overnight.” This quote from Dan Brown’s Digital Fortress caught my imagination in high school, and from that point onwards, I knew that this is what I wanted to do. I wanted to become a research scientist, who would decipher such algorithms, even more so break a cipher claimed to be perfect. Since then I have been studying cryptography, which led to a tendency of seeing patterns and codes in my daily activities. Routine activities such as reading a letter or looking at a sign, trigger connections in my mind. I have always enjoyed reading theorems and understanding their proofs. My interest in cryptography further burgeoned since every protocol, or algorithm

On the contrary, by utilizing intelligence, our world will have the power to advance impactful innovations, and ultimately continue to formulate a superior standard of living. This robust knowledge which our society proceeds to expand on, additionally allows individuals to originate their own ideologies and define unique personality characteristics. It is proven that a person is unable to be truly blissful without eccentric perceptions, so in light of this reality how could one claim that knowledge is not power? Thus, it is our duty to harness our scholastic opportunities, not only to assist society, but above all to reach an intimate euphoric

I hope you are well. I have been working on my graduate school statement of purpose over the last few days, and I was hoping you might be willing to look over it. I am contacting you because your comments on my personal statement over the summer were very helpful, and I know that as Director of Graduate Studies you read these types of statements frequently. I am not sure if I am on the right track and so this very rough draft may not be what they are looking for as a statement of purpose. Please don’t hesitate to let me know if you do not have the time.

It is my aspiration to develop software and products that meets the needs of those who use them. When you take a look at the makeup of the tech industry professionals, it is common knowledge that there is a substantial gap in terms of gender and race. As a result, the products and applications created for social, business, or personal purposes created with a male Eurocentric type mindset. One basic idea of creating user products is making sure the product itself represents and attests to the needs of people. When the group creating products shows lack of diversity in identity, this can neglect to meet underlying needs or wants of different groups of people.

Why is participating in the A Day in the Life at the VNA important to you?

With pure passion for scientific reasoning and some accompanying expectation, I chose Statistics as my major in undergraduate period at Hunan University nearly four years ago. Then, at this moment when my college life will come to an end, I am submitting my application to the Master of Science in Interdisciplinary Statistics and Operation Research program of The University of North Carolina of Chapel Hill which is exactly consistent with my professional interest and career goal in the interdisciplinary business consulting realm.

The rural community in which I grew up serves as the primary motivation for pursuing a community-based medical program. As a high school student, I participated in a youth court for the Chippewa County. One court case in particular really opened my eyes to the struggle for health that individuals in my own community faced.

I first got involved in theatre when I was 7 years old. It was never something I thought I would be doing for the rest of my life. I had first done gymnastics as a little girl for a few years. Then, I started playing soccer on a soccer team in my community. I started acting at classes down at my local rec center. Then, I auditioned for the musical my first year in middle school and fell completely attached to putting on a big production. Throughout the rest of middle school, I took choir all three years and was a part of all the productions and participated in Drama Club. At the end of my 8th grade year, I was inducted into the International Thespian Society. I decided to get serious about my training after my sophomore year of high school. I started training programs at the Denver Center of Performing Arts with Allison Watrous and other faculty members. The

As a child of an immigrant mother and father, I was expected to attend school, expected to be academically successful, and expected to achieve financial success. When I was younger, all of my classes seemed like chores and something that I was incapable of enjoying. When I took chemistry in the second year of high school, I went through a spiritual cleansing. I had never learned about the topic before and the idea of the arrangement of molecules and the idea behind their existence in this world brought forth a newfound fascination, almost obsession for knowing more. Since then, my love for chemistry has instilled a sense of discovery within me as well establishing a purpose for learning all similar topics in order to understand more about chemistry and its foundations. For instance, math, which I had previously considered to be a mindless chore transformed into a subject that I enjoy learning about because I can connect my newfound insights in mathematics to chemistry.

We are not short of hearing about the significance in creating goals, merely having a vision is enough to steer someone into a reality long imaged. Long before The Secret and vision boards, I read Gloria Steinman’s book, A Revolution Within. She postulates imagining meeting oneself in the future. I have visualized a young vibrant, powerful woman with a number pinned on her chest, her face chafed from the wind, triumphantly passing the finish line.

The importance of knowledge imbues me to be passionate and motivates me to pursue my inquisitiveness. I’m studious; I enjoy absorbing information because I find it riveting. Knowledge is what you structure it to be. Knowledge can be a tool to comprehend the world, innovate and succor people. Not only does education bestow prowess, it also gives the freedom to choose a path to follow. Through education, we can choose to become doctors, lawyers, or professors.

The live production that I chose to attend was The Weird at The Herbert and Nicole Wertheim Performing arts center in FIU’s Modesto Maidique Campus. The Weird was a Tragic comedy, portraying a variety of sketches based on the struggle between love and fear. After The Weird finished my reaction to the play and quality were extremely positive, through the collaboration effort conducted by the playwright’s collaborative artists and craftspeople it helped me understand and enjoy the plays’ ongoing struggle of love and fear in life and in the future it’ll make me think of how my life and I are full of things that we love and things that make us

A personal mission statement is a philosophy or creed that one plans to follow in daily life. It is usually designed with positivity, purpose, and with personal goals for every aspect of life such as career, finances, etc. It also focuses on personality traits that one would like to possess and the accomplishments that one wants to achieve, both short-term and long term. It also houses the individuality of the person writing it. Every person writing a personal mission statement is will produce a different statement. This is primarily because people value different things, characteristics and have different goals. The purpose of this paper is to explore my mission statement (Covey, 2013, pp.113).

My decision to pursue MS (Electrical Engineering) is indeed one of the most significant decisions of my career. There are myriad of factors that have influenced me to come about with this decision. From school days, I used to speculate on how various devices work; different questions always used to strike on my mind: how it is possible to hear the voices from FM radio? How two people are communicating being at distant places? However, the important phase that turned my interest into ultimate