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College Admissions Essay: The Cosmos

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It was like following the legacy of my human ancestors, how they once stood beneath the heavens, contemplating, wondering about the grandeur of this majestic cosmos, I too stood under that grand design, peering through the eyepiece of my telescope, watching, completely awestruck by its majesticity, as the great city unfolded in front of me. That day I truly understood or rather I should say, I felt the real deep meaning of the quote I once read -“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science”. From that day, my passionate and unstoppable journey to know this universe started. The Cosmos is bursting at the seams with known knowns, known unknowns and unknown unknowns; all complying with baffling mysteries. There is a captivating charisma in its sole; and its components completely ravishing. And I started experiencing it as I started to climb the ladder to acquire knowledge about this cosmos. It was my birthday, and as special as the day was, a rather more special gift was …show more content…

At that moment when I was reading about it, I was like ‘this is it! My life’s work is going to be on black holes, dark energy and dark matter’. And then I started working on a theory side by side my high school studies, that could easily explain the working of a black hole. And my greatest accomplishment in that theory was that I was able to prove the preexisting equation for the radius of black hole. As it used classical mechanics and was incomplete, therefore I never showed it to anyone, except my physics teacher, who greatly appreciated my theory, but suggested me to focus on my 12th first. So, I did as I was told, thinking that after this I will be able to continue my quest. But who knew at that time that one more obstacle was still left that had to be

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