Tufts is the only college that spoke about the importance of my future in the global world and how the academic community and diverse student population believed they could turn knowledge into meaningful change through their education. As I look through the academic classes offered at Tufts, the Peace and Justice Studies program immediately caught my attention along with the study abroad program for someone like me who is eager to explore the world...
I remember walking into the family room at the age of seven and curling up into my mom's lap in the big red chair in the corner of the room. I asked her why she was home early from the trip and asked where my dad was. She explained to me that he was not feeling well and was in the hospital. As days unraveled I learned that my father had a bike accident on their trip and would never walk again...
My father shares many stories about his years at the University of Florida. My favorite is about regular Frisbee and hackey-sack games during breaks at the Plaza of the Americas. He describes a diverse group of students from across the world having fun together in these pick-up games. I love that the University of Florida campus has a diverse community with students from many cultures...
Blackness enfolded us as Lilly bolted the door shut and I flipped the lights off. The darkness played tricks on my eyes when I glanced in Lilly’s direction and heard her muffled footsteps on the newspaper-covered floor. Suddenly, a dim red glow illuminated the room when she switched on the safety light attached to the wall above our heads...
Mathematics and I started out as good friends. Addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division were always rather pleasant and easygoing; I had a few feuds with algebra, but quickly made up with geometry. The real challenger was calculus and its various derivatives. Since first grade, I had thought of math as a simple undertaking: plug-and-chug. Now, for the first time, I found that I had no idea where to start, no clue what equations to use...
I stepped off the Beijing-Tianjin Intercity Railway after traveling seventy-three miles in thirty minutes; at barely past seven am, the line for cabs already curled around the parking lot. A sliver of apprehension crept into my mind. I was in a country where I spoke my second language and was headed to a place where I knew virtually nobody. Upon arriving at the hotel, the cab driver commented, “You’ve never been here before, have you?” I grinned and felt pleased that he had not realized from my speaking that I was not even from the country...
I use creativity to splash color across any blank canvas I face. This is demonstrated by my experience in Mathematical Modeling, a class revolving around modeling situations. I never considered a project “work”—rather, it was a challenge to stretch my mind and find an ingenious new solution for a problem...
The Computational and Systems Biology Initiative (CSBi) program at MIT is particularly appealing to me. My current research project with the Jackson Genomics Laboratory involves computational biology/bioinformatics and gene networks, and I would very much look forward to pursuing a similar line of research at MIT...
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