I am a student that doesn’t want to sit in a classroom and copy notes about a subject; I am a curious individual who wants to understand subjects and their overlap in a way that is applicable to my ambitions of changing the technology field. My goal is to have an interconnected appreciation of multiple subjects through experiences that exist outside the classroom and tie my learning to the real world, all while developing my leadership skills. This is no easy feat. The Honors College at Stony Brook University is a great place to continue my progress towards this goal, because it shares these motivations. I am a great fit for this program because my existing educational values closely match those of the program, which will help both me and the program excel in our respective ambitions. I appreciate the Honors College’s focus on an interdisciplinary, liberal-arts style education. This is the best way to learn because it creates a practical, layered understanding difficult to achieve otherwise. Nothing exists in isolation, so how could it be comprehended that way beyond artificially? I …show more content…
Programming practices proper term and operation usage to articulate an algorithm with eloquence, just as writing does. Over my high school career, I’ve grown fond of computer science because of this unorthodox skillset it indirectly requires. I am fascinated with how logic and eloquence turn thoughts into ideas into accessible explanations. This has led me to love math alongside programming and literature. A return to the original principles of mathematics resembles philosophy quite closely, with its prose being more succinct and categorized as theorems or laws. Math is rich, nuanced, and beautiful, just like philosophy or literature. Studying computer science has given me a deeper appreciation of theoretical math, through creative application of concepts like graph theory and asymptotic