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The things:
1. The statement should explain what it is about the speciality you have chosen that most appeals to you.
2. Present carefully selected information from your background which provides evidence that you have acquired the skills, traits or abilities desired.
3. Aspects you are a looking for in a program. Long term goals .
Finally:
Summation line which lists strengths you would bring to the program, and a thank you for being considered.
Letters of Recommendation
Please have your recommender write candidly about your qualifications, potential to carry on advanced study in the field specified, intellectual independence, capacity for analytical thinking, ability to organize and express ideas clearly, and potential for teaching. In describing such attributes as motivation, intellect, and maturity, specific examples are more useful than generalizations.
Looks like I'm going to start negative again:
Bad Grades.
As an undergraduate there are a number of classes in which I under performed. Most notable is my repetition of Introduction to Abstract Mathematics.
If you were to look at my years studying upper-division classes at UC Davis. You could find classes in which my grades where
After college I worked as an underwriter for 1 year and as a teacher for another year. Working in my first year, even in a job the required a bachelor degree and in a job many would find sufficiently difficult due to the multitude of changing rules and procedures I found myself unchallenged and empty on a day to day basis. In my second year, I found job in teaching. Teaching demanded creativity and creative problem solving on a day to day basis. However, I was only teaching English. In fact, I feel math, and studying math has made such a great difference in my life I incorporated it into my English classes as much as possible. Whether it was discussing math homework in English, or explaining the logic consequences of using statements like, and, or, if and therefore.
While teaching I appreciated not the students who knew every answer, but the students who took what they learned and attempted to use it in their lives as much as possible. For my students, sometimes that was talking while I was talking in class, discussing video games, or coming up with creative ways to use language. These independent minded students were perfectly capable of being successful
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Ok, I was a bad student. At the time I was going on my 17, 18, 19th year of school. And while I heard it would
I feel math is important for resolving problems. I feel studying math improves my life. Math has the ability to solve problems in the world.
I think the application of math to real life situations can be immensely beneficial. For example when I was coaching the ultimate frisbee team at Davis. I modelled simple situation that had been the source of much argument between coaches and confusion for players. In mathematical terms the model which essential was about the shortest distance to a point from a single point versus a group of points was quite simple but its implications for how I played that game, and how I explained it to players was tremendous. As time went on I found the simple truths had repercussions in other areas of the game. Like this example, I believe the potential for math to improve the decisions we make everyday is extremely high.
Argh,, fail. Enough for today.
1. The statement should explain what it is about the speciality you have chosen that most appeals to you.
2. Present carefully selected information from your background which provides evidence that you have acquired the skills, traits or abilities desired.
3. Aspects you are a looking for in a program. Long term goals .
Finally:
Summation line which lists strengths you would bring to the program, and a thank you for being considered.
Letters of Recommendation
Please have your recommender write candidly about your qualifications, potential to carry on advanced study in the field specified, intellectual independence, capacity for analytical thinking, ability to organize and express ideas clearly, and potential for teaching. In describing such attributes as motivation, intellect, and maturity, specific examples are more useful than generalizations.
Looks like I'm going to start negative again:
Bad Grades.
As an undergraduate there are a number of classes in which I under performed. Most notable is my repetition of Introduction to Abstract Mathematics.
If you were to look at my years studying upper-division classes at UC Davis. You could find classes in which my grades where
After college I worked as an underwriter for 1 year and as a teacher for another year. Working in my first year, even in a job the required a bachelor degree and in a job many would find sufficiently difficult due to the multitude of changing rules and procedures I found myself unchallenged and empty on a day to day basis. In my second year, I found job in teaching. Teaching demanded creativity and creative problem solving on a day to day basis. However, I was only teaching English. In fact, I feel math, and studying math has made such a great difference in my life I incorporated it into my English classes as much as possible. Whether it was discussing math homework in English, or explaining the logic consequences of using statements like, and, or, if and therefore.
While teaching I appreciated not the students who knew every answer, but the students who took what they learned and attempted to use it in their lives as much as possible. For my students, sometimes that was talking while I was talking in class, discussing video games, or coming up with creative ways to use language. These independent minded students were perfectly capable of being successful
=
Ok, I was a bad student. At the time I was going on my 17, 18, 19th year of school. And while I heard it would
I feel math is important for resolving problems. I feel studying math improves my life. Math has the ability to solve problems in the world.
I think the application of math to real life situations can be immensely beneficial. For example when I was coaching the ultimate frisbee team at Davis. I modelled simple situation that had been the source of much argument between coaches and confusion for players. In mathematical terms the model which essential was about the shortest distance to a point from a single point versus a group of points was quite simple but its implications for how I played that game, and how I explained it to players was tremendous. As time went on I found the simple truths had repercussions in other areas of the game. Like this example, I believe the potential for math to improve the decisions we make everyday is extremely high.
Argh,, fail. Enough for today.