Why Lafayette?/ Difference between being busy and being engaged

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1) Why Lafayette? (20-200 words)

Since I was very young, I have always wondered how the worlds go around. Why do I lean forward when the car suddenly stops? Why does the ball fly in a curve pattern when I throw it? That's the reason why I chose to study in a Physics specialised class in high school.

It was in a textbook where I met a difficult exercise. After a hard time struggling with it, I'd finally been able to get the answers. When I looked up the solution for it, I was very surprised that although I'd got the right answer, my solution was very long and the book's solution was much shorter and its idea was very clever. I found out that this exercise and solution was proposed by Doctor Andrew Dougherty at Lafayette College. I went online to search for more materials and found a lot of useful things especially Newtonion Physics. He has also posted a very organized sheet of common equations that I found very useful during my class. Studying in Lafayette gives me a chance to see him in person and study more about and excel at mechanics and thermodynamics.

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2) There's a difference between being busy and being engaged. Lafayette comes alive each day with the energy of students who are deeply engaged in their academic, co-curricular and extracurricular explorations. In response to the second prompt, keep it simple - choose one activity and add depth to our understanding of your involvement.

What do you do? Why do you do it? (20-200 words)

It was great pleasure to see our team's water rocket fly high into the sky and finally won the contest. After several months of preapring the rocket, it all worked out so well. I was in charged of the launch mechanism and the base of the rocket. It took me the whole morning to look for an appopriate pipes the fit well to the rocket and many other days of try and failure with the launch mechanism. Sometimes I pulled the string but it didn't take off, sometimes I hadn't pulled but it still took off. Finally, I'd been able to create a mechanism that can be pulled from a distance so the puller didn't get wet.

It's been a long desire to create something that can really fly high. After all, space is the final frontier. The water rocket is a simple way to get closer to that frontier. It also helped me to understand more about fluid mechanics and mechanics as well as making new friends with people who share the same interest with me.

[i][i]Since I was very young, I have always wondered how the worlds go around. Why do I lean forward when the car suddenly stops? Why does the ball fly in a curve pattern when I throw it? That's the reason why I chose to study in a Physics specialised class in high school. I think that this is too cliche, so show in creative way how did you become interested in physics.

Try to write why you were interested particularly in Lafayette , coz I think that your example about Professor is not clear .
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Please , also help with mine, this is urgent.