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I hope I can contribute in english. I went to an ivy league school, and when I finished my first year, I was very determined to not study a stem field. I had done a lot in math and biology in high school and I felt that now was my time to explore other topics that were important to me. I had very encouraging english teachers at the time, and thought that I wanted to write poems and study english. I also felt that college math was so much harder than high school math, and that so many of my classmates were better than me and I couldn't catch up.
However, at the end of my freshman year, my math teacher, who was a post-doc at the time, gave his final lecture to the class. In the last 10 minutes, he began to cry, and explained that he would not be returning to my school to teach, and that he wanted to let us know how even though math can seem different at the time, all you need is to be passionate and work hard at one part of mathematics. I felt very inspired by his speech and wanted to reexplore the possibility of studying math further. ..
During my sophomore year, I spent a lot of time changing majors and trying to make sense of my interest in both math and english. I ultimately got my major in mathematics, and am very grateful to all the teachers I had that encouraged me this far. I was pretty nervous making the decision at first but am so happy now. I work as a quantitative researcher now and really like being surrounded by a community of mathematians. Also, the older I get, the more I find it interesting to see connections between different fields that I am interested in. I hope that more people can share my passion for multidisciplinary education! |
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