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I believe that math and science always held promise to both me and the world around me. In less than sixty years, man has come from riding horses on wagons to placing a man on the moon. Even today, the condense studies of math and science help revolutionize society through technology. I want to be apart of this revolution that is heavily integrated into our lives today. From this appreciation of our world, I always had a personal connection to math, science, and even history. And I knew that this appreciation would attribute to my success. For all of my life, I always think in a logical, linear pattern that helped me through learning complex subjects. It also helped me understand the rational decisions and outcomes that comprise our history. …show more content…

I was up for the challenge for more. And when I entered high school, I thought that I would challenge myself early on and skip a full year of algebra, right into geometry. I was actually doing really well in the class. The content was easy and understanding it was just as simplistic as I had expected. While this did not hold true to AP Environmental Science at the time, the class nonetheless turned out to be a lot more fun and less intimidating than what the title "AP" had suggested, to which, I ended up getting an A in the class. However, having excelled in these classes, I felt that it wasn't enough to satisfy my success. Junior year, I really wanted to challenge myself. I doubled up on math with AP statistics and pre-calculus honors, along with taking two extra social science classes conjointly with my AP US history class. I was integrating multiple courses in math, science, and social studies in the hopes that I find something that can engage me for the rest of my life. And although it had been one of the toughest and most stressful years of school I have ever had, but I felt that I was more enlightened than I ever was

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