Computer Science, to me, has never been a field that stays in its lane. It spills into medicine, into economics, into biology, into every corner of human experience where there is a problem worth solving. That is exactly what excites me about it, and exactly what drew me to Reed.
Reed's CS program does not treat computation as an end in itself. It treats it as a lens, one that can be turned on questions far bigger than any algorithm. The CS-Interdisciplinary major is proof of that. It tells me that Reed believes what I believe: that the most important work happens when disciplines stop being polite and start colliding.
I have felt that collision first-hand. During my internship, I was part of the development team responsible for bringing FeverApp to Cameroon, a mobile application designed to help parents track and manage fever in children, originally funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Sitting inside that project, watching code become care, I understood something I had only theorized before: Computer Science is not a static field. It is one of the most alive things I know. And I want to spend my next four years somewhere that treats it that way.
Honestly? When I think about Reed, I feel the way I imagine someone feels right before opening a device they have been waiting for all year, that barely-contained excitement of knowing something extraordinary is about to begin. I already picture myself in Professor Anna Ritz's Computational Biology course, completely absorbed, scribbling questions in the margins of my notes faster than I can answer them. I picture showing up at New Polytopia buzzing with an idea I cannot stop thinking about, finding the one person in the room who immediately gets it, and the two of us staying there way too long trying to figure out if we can actually build it.
That is the contribution I want to make at Reed not just receiving its intellectual energy, but adding to it. I want to be the person who drags a health problem into a CS conversation and refuses to let go until we have figured something out together. I want to collaborate on projects that are genuinely hard and genuinely meaningful. Reed is where I want to do that work, and I am ready to show up for it completely.
And one day I hope not too far from now I want to sit on the bed of my Reed dorm room and laugh at how obsessively I searched every corner of the internet for anything Reed. The Reddit threads, the course catalogs, the faculty pages, the virtual tours watched more than once. I want that moment of finally being on the inside of the place I spent so long looking in at.
Reed's CS program does not treat computation as an end in itself. It treats it as a lens, one that can be turned on questions far bigger than any algorithm. The CS-Interdisciplinary major is proof of that. It tells me that Reed believes what I believe: that the most important work happens when disciplines stop being polite and start colliding.
I have felt that collision first-hand. During my internship, I was part of the development team responsible for bringing FeverApp to Cameroon, a mobile application designed to help parents track and manage fever in children, originally funded by Germany's Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Sitting inside that project, watching code become care, I understood something I had only theorized before: Computer Science is not a static field. It is one of the most alive things I know. And I want to spend my next four years somewhere that treats it that way.
Honestly? When I think about Reed, I feel the way I imagine someone feels right before opening a device they have been waiting for all year, that barely-contained excitement of knowing something extraordinary is about to begin. I already picture myself in Professor Anna Ritz's Computational Biology course, completely absorbed, scribbling questions in the margins of my notes faster than I can answer them. I picture showing up at New Polytopia buzzing with an idea I cannot stop thinking about, finding the one person in the room who immediately gets it, and the two of us staying there way too long trying to figure out if we can actually build it.
That is the contribution I want to make at Reed not just receiving its intellectual energy, but adding to it. I want to be the person who drags a health problem into a CS conversation and refuses to let go until we have figured something out together. I want to collaborate on projects that are genuinely hard and genuinely meaningful. Reed is where I want to do that work, and I am ready to show up for it completely.
And one day I hope not too far from now I want to sit on the bed of my Reed dorm room and laugh at how obsessively I searched every corner of the internet for anything Reed. The Reddit threads, the course catalogs, the faculty pages, the virtual tours watched more than once. I want that moment of finally being on the inside of the place I spent so long looking in at.
