Ever since I was a child, I've loved science. In elementary school, I delved myself in science clubs and experiments, from experimenting with water to making volcanoes and........ Since then, the thrill of learning science and its application was instilled in me. In middle school, I began to love solving intricate problems, and tried to delve even further; I started designing new experiments with my friends in science club (KIR) such as making paper speakers, investigating magnetic properties, and making batteries out of the lead. I realized that experimenting and trying something new with the knowledge I had are my passions. However, in high school, I haven't been able to explore these passions further. Even though I was able to do experiments …show more content…
This tenacity and self-motivation have been instilled in me, as coming from a third world country, there are a lot of difficulties in pursuing my dreams and passions. When I was in middle school, I wasn't given any physics textbooks. At that time, I yearn to know more about physics, so every week I would go to the local bookstore to look and scrutinize every physics books I came across. Since then, I was hungry for even more fun facts about physics, like how a Sprite was formed, or how airplanes and roller coasters seemingly operate "against" nature. In high school, I was hooked with physics, especially quantum and nuclear physics. Although the subject is not a popular and skipped in my school simply because they have "too many chemistry-related materials in them" (according to my physics teacher), I refused to give up because of my curiosity. I started looking on the Internet, and if that's insufficient, I went to Kinokuniya so I can read more books about quantum tunneling occurs during alpha decays, about betavoltaic and alphavoltaic batteries, the development of tokamaks, about the principles of quantum physics and how modern physics changed the world: from lasers to computers, smartphones, and