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Scholarship Essay A few days ago, as I was eating lunch with friends, I entered a heated debate a bout the worth of education. ?I should not have to learn algebra and calculus because it will have no influence on my life,? my opponent angrily shouted as I tried to defend the usefulness of mathematics. Three days later, I still mu...
University of Washington Admissions Essay The challenging family situation I would like to share with you is our move from Korea to the United States. In 1989, my life was changed when my family immigrated to a new country, hoping for a better future. My life in Korea was hopeless, because I was a failing student with not much in...
Challenges are when one tries to attain a certain goal(s), when one commits to a quality and aim and strives to achieve that goal. My biggest challenge in life was coming to America and adjusting to this strange land. Coming here to America was very exciting for me. I did not realize all the hardships I had to face in my early...
Lead and Manage People Leadership is the key dynamic force that motivates and co ordinates an organization to accomplish its objectives. A leader creates a vision for the others and then directs them towards achieving that vision. To be a leader you must have followers who have confidence in you and who give you their support and...
It was easy to empathize with Andy Dufresne and the other prisoners in The Shawshank Redemption as they suffered in their prison cells, I suffered while watching the movie. It was not because I disliked the film far from it. But while the prisoners in the movie were serving their sentences in Shawshank Prison, I served my own three...
It?s unbelievable how each year, since the beginning of high school, my perfectly laid plans for myself have unavoidably deteriorated. When I entered my freshman year, I had aspirations of being a doctor (something I had wanted to be since I was a child). Now, here I am entering my senior year in high school without any idea of wh...
8:02 a.m. Saturday. It?s still dark, as usual, on these cold, winter days. Everybody else is still sleeping and enjoying the comfprting heat of their beds. I crack open the locked window by my bed, an act some deemed downright idiotic. I strip off my pj?s, throw on my robe, and head for the shower. Drying off, I think about where...
The Panuluyan was a real eye-opener for me. It made me become aware of the things, which I have normally taken for granted. It was so surprising to see how much little they have, yet at the same time they cherish each little blessing they receive and they never cease to be grateful for what is given to them. It made me see that...
I think I?d want someone who was really intelligent and was after the meaning of life. Someone who?d had insights that I hadn?t who could really bounce ideas back at me in a conversation. Someone who wasn?t afraid to break with the norm and who didn?t care if he was a ?nerd?. Someone with a subtle wit that most people would need to...
Multifaceted Background' University of Illinois Writing a self-reflective tirade is perhaps one of the most difficult tasks to perform. I have found myself pondering this topic for an unusually long time; no one has ever asked me to write about my culture' the one thing about myself which I understand the least. This question which...
A significant part of effective leadership is the close connection between the leader and the follower, which often determines the success of the leader?s mission. Unfortunately, this leader-follower relationship cannot be created according to some simple formula. Young leaders of today face special challenges as they try to commun...
In response to the question ?what has been your biggest mistake?? My biggest mistake is everyone?s biggest mistake, that no one can help. We all take on assumptions throughout our lives, and when we finally come to understand this, we spend our lives undoing all of them in order to approach the truth with assumptionless intellige...
An automobile, a vibrant yellow sportscar, pulls up to the front of the school. Its mirrored windows reflect the faces of a large crowd, waiting breathlessly for the car door to open. A man steps out of the driver?s side, dressed in a formal suit, with the roguish appeal and smile of James Bond, the famous 007 agent. He walks aroun...
?? This quotation is from a rather outspoken mathematician named Scott Buchanan, who has studied the style of human thought right along with its mathematical accomplishments. It is meant to describe our style of thinking when approaching mathematics. Yet it seems to me that it has a larger meaning: that it applies to the human st...
