The hardest decisions often end up being the best ones to make. After seven years away from school, choosing to return to finish my degree was not an easy thing to do. I expected to be unprepared for the college environment and the rigors of formal education. To my surprise, I discovered that thanks to the skills I obtained outside of school, I was now the best student I had ever been. Once I had made the choice to put my full effort into my schooling, I saw how rewarding challenging myself can be. Now I am ready to face even harder challenges to reach even higher accomplishments studying at the UW, and then as I build a career after that.
My top majors of choice at UW are Computer Science and Informatics, both of which I am on track for meeting the prerequisites for at the end of this spring. I am lucky to live in an area which is not only filled with career opportunities in my field of interest, but is also home to one of …show more content…
Over the past five quarters, I have earned a 4.0 grade in every class I’ve taken, and have been placed on the Vice-President’s List the past three consecutive quarters. I initially tested into the lower of two algebra courses, which put at least seven quarters of math ahead of me before I completed the prerequisites for UW’s Computer Science program. I was eager to move forward as fast as I could, so I took a self-paced math class to test out of both algebra classes in one quarter. I also took a full time 15 credit course load in the summer quarter in order to be on track to transfer to UW as early as possible. I started Japanese classes as electives after studying the language on my own in my time off from school, and I received permission to skip straight to second year classes after an interview with the professor. Seeing myself consistently excel through progressively more advanced classes has given me confidence that I can continue to succeed in upper level
My top majors of choice at UW are Computer Science and Informatics, both of which I am on track for meeting the prerequisites for at the end of this spring. I am lucky to live in an area which is not only filled with career opportunities in my field of interest, but is also home to one of …show more content…
Over the past five quarters, I have earned a 4.0 grade in every class I’ve taken, and have been placed on the Vice-President’s List the past three consecutive quarters. I initially tested into the lower of two algebra courses, which put at least seven quarters of math ahead of me before I completed the prerequisites for UW’s Computer Science program. I was eager to move forward as fast as I could, so I took a self-paced math class to test out of both algebra classes in one quarter. I also took a full time 15 credit course load in the summer quarter in order to be on track to transfer to UW as early as possible. I started Japanese classes as electives after studying the language on my own in my time off from school, and I received permission to skip straight to second year classes after an interview with the professor. Seeing myself consistently excel through progressively more advanced classes has given me confidence that I can continue to succeed in upper level