Undergraduate / "the Moika Palace in Russia on December 17, 1916" - going back in time [3]

5. Imagine that you have the opportunity to travel back through time. At what point in history would you like to stop and why?
I would be at the Moika Palace in Russia on December 17, 1916 because Moika Palace is the place of Grigori Rasputin's death. Grigori Rasputin was a peasant who claimed to have healing and premonition powers. Prince Felix Yusupov decided to murder Rasputin. On December 17, 1916 Prince Felix served Rasputin cake filled with enough cyanide to kill five people but was unaffected after eating the cake. Felix then shot Rasputin on his back. Rasputin didn't die so Yusupov shot him two more times. Rasputin was shot on his back and on his head. He was thrown into the Moika River. His body was recovered and an autopsy revealed that the cause of death was drowning. Rasputin's death is one of history's greatest mysteries because he was shot three times and poisoned but still didn't die. This essay represents me because I am intrigued by mysterious events/places that have not been explained. Mysterious events/places such as the disappearance of the Indus civilization, the pyramids, the Loch Ness Monster, and others excite me because they have not been explained and it always makes me think of what really happened. There are endless possibilities which is why I am fascinated by mysterious events/places.

Undergraduate / "Math comes naturally to m" - help me and revise my UMD essay [6]

According to Henry David Thoreau, "One is not born into the world to do everything, but to do something." What is your something?

My something is math. For as long as I can remember, math has been my favorite subject. Every time I go to school, I get excited whenever I go to my math class. Math comes naturally to me and is easy to understand. The reason I love math is probably because I came from India which teaches higher level math at a young age. I remember when I was taking Trigonometry, everyone in the class was struggling because they didn't understand it. I ended up doing well in that class since it wasn't very hard for me. I tried to do really good in other academic subjects but they didn't come naturally to me. Right now, I am taking calculus and even though it is a hard course, I still love doing problems. Since math is easy for me, I am thinking of pursuing a major that involves math.