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Pursuing A BSE Degree In To Kill A Mockingbird By J. Penn

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Do you ever get goose bumps when you are really excited about something, or when you just somehow know that whatever is going to happen in the next few seconds is going to change you? I do. It happened the first time I read ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’. It happened the first time I listened to ‘Hey Jude’ by the Beatles. It happened because I knew that those next few minutes or few hours were going to be life-changing and phenomenal. It also happened when I first saw Penn when I began to research colleges. It was sort of a tingling feeling, a shiver up my spine, an indescribable feeling of excitement that was only heightened when I actually opened the university website and saw all that Penn has to offer me. I’ve always known that I want to go into the field of computer science. Both of parents are software engineers and I wanted to …show more content…

Although both are equally important, as a high school student, I always enjoyed my practical classes more than the theoretical ones. This is why I think that SEAS’s top ranking engineering program and its eminent faculty combined with its hands-on approach to learning would benefit me greatly. Furthermore, Penn’s focus on interdisciplinary education will allow me to receive a BSE degree in my intended major, Computer Science but at the same time, pursue other areas of interest such as cognitive science. In addition to this, I hope to take advantage of the extensive undergraduate research opportunities that Penn has to offer. I am especially fascinated by some of the research being undertaken in the field of bioinformatics. The application of computer science into the field of molecular biology in order to facilitate the extraction and analysis of useful biological data is of utmost importance in the solving of complex biological problems, and it is something that I hope to be involved

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