Scholarship / A journey in reaching my future goal - Essay for Korean Scholarship [13]

I am applying Korean Government Scholarship and one of the requirements is this introduction essay. I never write any kind of personal statement essay before so please help me correct the grammar and give me your opinion for creating a better essay. Thank you so much.

working for possessing

Born in my family is such a great blessing for me. I came from a minangnese family and I am the third of four siblings. It is common for a minangnese to make a living trading goods, so does my father, he goes to small town selling shoes everyday while my mother is a full-time mother. My parents raised me to be independent and hardworker by not spoiling me. I was taught that to get something, I have to work for it first. I had been selling stationary stuff to my school friends since I was in elementary school and earned additional money from it. Growing up in this family, I grew up as a strong individual which helped me getting through my life obstacles.

My name is xxx and I am a mathematics graduate. My interests in mathematics simply started from the facts that I found myself thrilled to mathematics problems and riddles and playing with logic. In my school period, I was acing this subject and always having got nearly perfect scores. The desires to immerse myself into mathematics led me to take mathematics as my major. In xxxx, I managed to get into xxx university, which is one of the most prestigious university in Indonesia, and started my journey with mathematics.

Mathematics major is not as popular as engineering or medicine. However, I have never regretted my choice. In the process of studying mathematics, I kept attracted by the way it taught me to seek out patterns, to think analitically, and to think logically. It was when I took mathematical modelling course that the first time I involved in a mathematical research project, constructing a mathematical model to predict the amount of bacteria in wastewater. The feeling of being able to use what I have been studied for a real application to a physical phenomenon was incredibly great. This experience has opened my eyes to the high importance and powerfulness of mathematics and its application in many areas. For those reasons, I decided to focus my study on Applied Mathematics. In order to gain more exposure to this field and to people with the same interests, I joined 'Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) XXX Chapter', which students scheduled regular meetings to discuss topics in applied mathematics. I was also engaged in student organizations and took a role in organizing campus events as well, which hold an important role in shaping my interpersonal skills.

During my undergraduate study, it was not rare that I got inspired by my professors. I was fascinated by how they dedicated their life to knowledges and became extremely good in their field. In addition, what a professor or a lecturer do is not only taking part on research and teaching students but they actually educate future generations, this could not be more noble profession. As I aspired to be like them, I took the opportunity to be a Lab. Assistant of Numerical Mathematics course and it let me experienced the feel of teaching and dealing with college students. On my senior year, a year full working on my undergraduate final project certainly let me gained a deeper insight into mathematical research. It familiarized my self to the study of mathematical journals and papers with its complex mathematical formulas as well as enhanced my mathematical reasoning and critical thinking. Furthermore, the other important part was I found out that doing research is something I totally enjoy. Based on the processes I have been through, I became more convinced that to be in academia is my goals in the future.

I believe that dedicating my self to research and education in mathematics will be my perfect chance to take a part in improving the quality of education as well as the development of science and technology in Indonesia. As a concrete step in reaching my future goals, I planned to immediately pursue a higher study on mathematics after I graduated. For the sake of better education and self-development, I am very keen on studying in foreign country which would let me experience different new challenges. On July XXXX, I managed to graduate from XXX with highly satisfying academic qualifications. As soon after I graduated, I was intensively improving my English skills and also gaining experiences by working as Calculus and Business Mathematics tutor. Six months of being a tutor for math subjects, I learned of how to communicate and deliver the concept of mathematics in a simple way to other people which was also automatically demanded me to have a well understanding on these subjects. Since I do have a big concern on education, I also volunteer my self as educator of pre-school kids in my area, it does fulfill my desires of helping others as well.

Korea undoubtedly has a rapid development on science and technology. The quality of education in Korea is among the best in the world as well. Moreover, Korea and its rich culture also have captured my special attention for years and been such an appealing study destination for me. KGSP, which provides higher education in Korea for international students like me, will open my way to experience outstanding research opportunities offered by Korean Universities especially for the study of sciences. These reasons make me sure to pursue my higher study on Mathematics in this country through KGSP. I believe that studying Mathematics in Korea will be my opportunity to develop further my research skills through the best facilitation and research environment it provides and equip me with skills and experiences which could take me closer to my goal as a future mathematician. Furthermore, due to my attraction to Korea, since I was in highschool I have been starting self-study of Korean Language. So, being able to gain an intensive and compact education of Korean Language through the 1-year Korean language program is something I am eager to.

Scholarship / Epidemiology Study Plan for Korean Scholarship [2]

Hello, this is my study plan essay for Korean Scholarship.
I need your advice regarding the content of this essay. Thank you very much

mathematics' application to biosciences

Considering the efforts that it will take in my pursuit of a master's degree, I do not come up without a clear goal. My study goal is expanding my mathematical knowledge so that I would have a stronger base to take a part in enriching mathematical science as a lecturer and mathematician. I am eager to pursue my higher study at xxxxx where there is School of Mathematics with Mathematical Biology Laboratory that I am very interested to join. Hence, by learning more about mathematical biology, I wish it could bring a greater benefit for biosciences as well.

In my period as a master student at xxxx, I am interested do a research in mathematics' application to biosciences especially epidemiology, which is related to the transmission of infectious diseases in populations. I am aware that such area of mathematical research is important to be conducted, considering the fact that infectious diseases constantly pose a threat to human beings. The emergence and re-emergence of infectious diseases have become a significant worldwide problem, including xxxx and South Korea. In the last two decades, mathematical research has been overwhelmingly increasing in this area and many mathematicians have successfully modeled the transmission of various infectious diseases caused by viruses, such as HIV, H5N1, etc. but such research on disease caused by Zika virus (ZIKV) is still limited as this disease has just re-emerged in the past couple years with its outbreaks in Brazil and Americas. Furthermore, in the end of 2016, the 16th Zika Virus infection in South Korea was confirmed. This fact triggers me to do a further mathematical resaerch on this particular disease. The aim of this research is to formulate a mathematical model in order to reach proper understanding of transmission mechanisms of the Zika disease and also may facilitate public health organization in predicting the future dynamic of the disease and deciding intervention strategies.

Zika, like malaria and dengue, is a mosquito-borne disease which is transmitted by mousquito bites. In addition to its vectorial transmission, Zika also could be transmitted by sexual interactions. Bonyah and Okosun [1] proposed a model of Zika transmission which introduces optimal control strategies that is useful to learn about the effects of intervention strategies but, in the construction of the model, the possibility of sexual transmission of Zika was neglected. Meanwhile, Agusto, Bewick, and Fagan [2] have formulated a Zika transmission model which incorporates both vectorial and sexual transmission routes. Therefore, in my future research, I would like to combine the idea of Bonyah and Okosun [1] with the one of Augusto et al [2] to propose a mathematical model of Zika with optimal control strategies which incorporates both vectorial and sexual transmission routes. In the model, compartment model SEIR will be proposed where both humans (male and female) and mosquitos will be considered and each of them is classified into the four subclasses (susceptible, exposed, infected and recovered). Furthermore, Pontryagin's maximum principle will be used to characterize the necessary conditions for the optimal control of Zika where the controls are including prevention and the use of insecticide, since there is no vaccines or treatment available yet for Zika. Then, in order to illustrate the results of the analysis, numerical simulation of the model will be carried out.