Essay:
This personal statement helps us become acquainted with you in ways different from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself. We are looking for an essay that will help us know you better as a person and as a student.
Describe an experience that you have had or a concept you have learned about that intellectually excites you. When answering this question, you may want to consider some of the following questions: Why does this topic excite you? How does it impact the way you or others experience the world? What questions do you continue to ponder about it?
I have done it! After hours of assiduous work and much frustration, I have finally achieved the answer. Excitement vibrated throughout my body, and I felt as if I might melt from the intense happiness. Unable to contain my new explosion of energy, I paced around the room, grinning widely. I sat down in my chair and rechecked my solution for the sixth time. It was correct. I have just found the largest prime factor of six hundred billion eight hundred fifty-one million four hundred seventy-five thousand one hundred and forty-three. My computer algorithm worked.
My passion for computer science started during sophomore year when I explored this enriching subject independently. I was soon entranced by all the intricacies of many algorithms and the hidden potentials of raw information. Much seemingly dead information can be brought to life and be masterfully weaved into useful material. I especially enjoy analyzing algorithms that produce powerful and valuable information for real-world situation. In one case, I marveled at the ingenuity of the Djkistra's algorithm, which finds the shortest path between two locations in a large network of interconnected cities. Many difficult computer science problems have many correct answers, but only a few efficient answers. But that is why computer science never fails to amaze me. There is always a better answer! Much freedom is involved in programming algorithms, and I indulge in that creative openness every single second when I am working on a difficult program.
Efficiency is a key in computer science, so I decided to implement an idea I've been thinking about for a while. I took the initiative and offered the Math Team advisor a better way to select teams. I am currently working to bring the math team's monthly registration online and to create an algorithm that will automatically generate our 5 teams based on previous achievements and preference. This will save the advisor hours of valuable time of sorting out the teams manually.
I have already dreamed of many ways that computer science can improve people's lives: most efficient distribution of wells in villages for convenient access, best placement of solar panels for most sunlight, and most appropriate assignment of doctors to rural areas to avoid unequal distribution. I aspire that my ideas will be put in place to benefit people who are less fortunate.
Despite my financial hardships, I have never given up my passion. I want to be an innovator in this world rife with opportunities and unopened frontiers; a world with so many people waiting to be helped; a world with so much to improve. I wish to use my creativity and passion for computer science to make the world more efficient, more interconnected, and more accessible to those who have been left out of the beautiful advancements of the new millennium.
This personal statement helps us become acquainted with you in ways different from courses, grades, test scores, and other objective data. It will demonstrate your ability to organize your thoughts and express yourself. We are looking for an essay that will help us know you better as a person and as a student.
Describe an experience that you have had or a concept you have learned about that intellectually excites you. When answering this question, you may want to consider some of the following questions: Why does this topic excite you? How does it impact the way you or others experience the world? What questions do you continue to ponder about it?
I have done it! After hours of assiduous work and much frustration, I have finally achieved the answer. Excitement vibrated throughout my body, and I felt as if I might melt from the intense happiness. Unable to contain my new explosion of energy, I paced around the room, grinning widely. I sat down in my chair and rechecked my solution for the sixth time. It was correct. I have just found the largest prime factor of six hundred billion eight hundred fifty-one million four hundred seventy-five thousand one hundred and forty-three. My computer algorithm worked.
My passion for computer science started during sophomore year when I explored this enriching subject independently. I was soon entranced by all the intricacies of many algorithms and the hidden potentials of raw information. Much seemingly dead information can be brought to life and be masterfully weaved into useful material. I especially enjoy analyzing algorithms that produce powerful and valuable information for real-world situation. In one case, I marveled at the ingenuity of the Djkistra's algorithm, which finds the shortest path between two locations in a large network of interconnected cities. Many difficult computer science problems have many correct answers, but only a few efficient answers. But that is why computer science never fails to amaze me. There is always a better answer! Much freedom is involved in programming algorithms, and I indulge in that creative openness every single second when I am working on a difficult program.
Efficiency is a key in computer science, so I decided to implement an idea I've been thinking about for a while. I took the initiative and offered the Math Team advisor a better way to select teams. I am currently working to bring the math team's monthly registration online and to create an algorithm that will automatically generate our 5 teams based on previous achievements and preference. This will save the advisor hours of valuable time of sorting out the teams manually.
I have already dreamed of many ways that computer science can improve people's lives: most efficient distribution of wells in villages for convenient access, best placement of solar panels for most sunlight, and most appropriate assignment of doctors to rural areas to avoid unequal distribution. I aspire that my ideas will be put in place to benefit people who are less fortunate.
Despite my financial hardships, I have never given up my passion. I want to be an innovator in this world rife with opportunities and unopened frontiers; a world with so many people waiting to be helped; a world with so much to improve. I wish to use my creativity and passion for computer science to make the world more efficient, more interconnected, and more accessible to those who have been left out of the beautiful advancements of the new millennium.