College Admission Essay

There are many attributes that I could bring to the UW Platteville campus. To start, I am a Christian and I put my faith and my family above everything else. This means that I also uphold the morals and standards set by my faith and family. I love my family and both my parents and my siblings have helped me grow tremendously. I have four siblings ranging from four to fifteen and helping them grow up has also helped me to mature as well.

I also do my best in everything that I do. I try my hardest in school and I have many awards and achievements from my hard work that I am very proud to have. My favorite subjects are science and math because I love the problem solving and the thought that has to be put into the questions. An example of a component of math class that makes me enjoy it so much is having the satisfaction of proving a complex mathematical statement or understanding the complexity of the trigonometric identities and how they are developed.

I also have a deep love for science. Throughout high school I have taken the advanced science courses and, after understanding the complicated material, I have excelled in my grades of the

My two recent science teachers, Mr. Johnson and Mr. Lawry, have been very influential and very helpful in developing my love for science. Mr. Johnson was my first high school science teacher and he had actually taught science in college before teaching at my school. He devoted much of his life to science and soon after I got to know him, he encouraged me to pursue science as well. It didn’t take me long to appreciate science as much as he did, and before I knew it I spent all of my free time, both in and out of school, with him. Mr. Johnson was the first person to teach me to use a soldering iron and he helped me to disassemble almost anything I could find. Once apart, he would show me how it worked and how the circuits functioned together to make the device