Graduate School Application Essay

My Yemeni heritage combined with living in the UK has given me a unique perspective and exposed me to aspects of the world that most people never experience. Particularly, the empowering ability of technology and innovation to improve and change people’s lives.

I have always been curious and driven to investigate how and why things work. As soon as I was able to, I would disassemble my games consoles to understand each of their component’s functions and how they interacted together. This natural passion escalated to looking at coding languages and the logical way which code is written. Hence, my decision to study maths and computing at A Level was an enriching, enjoyable and valuable one, which has prepared me well for university.

Studying maths throughout school has given me an understanding of logic and different approaches to problem solving. When learning maths, you often feel like you’re learning a natural blueprint that can take you anywhere, and there’s nothing more satisfying than when you reach that ‘a-ha’ moment when the different aspects you’ve learnt fall into place - similar to writing code.

While we may refer to coding as a ‘science’ which gives a rigid and somewhat philistine preconception, it is in many ways more of an art form, only limited by one’s own creativity and imagination - an exquisitely

The application is a peer-to-peer ridesharing and courier service that will give the public more choice and reduce costs. The application is written in Java, and has furthered developed my coding and maths abilities, which are so crucial to a computer science degree. I have also created a number of websites, for myself and external clients. Each instance taught me new aspects of thinking and how to approach problem solving as well as successfully working within a