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As a college student coming from a now single-parent household that was constantly moving to new area's in my early childhood, each stage of my formal education was presented with new obstacles, due to circumstances that were beyond my control I was not able to take advantage of some the opportunities my early education had to offer. To elaborate bouncing around from school to school made academic affairs such as getting into extracurricular or obtaining awards a bit more complicated or at times even impossible.Upon entering college I was fairly outmatched by most of my pairs who already had honors courses in respective subjects such as Physics, Mathematics, Biology, etc. It was due to these factors that made me motivated to struggle and eventually succeed in my first year of college. *I will pursue a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics/Applied Math/Theoretical Physics followed by postdoctoral research and eventually a research position at a Government lab or private company.*

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\textbf{Intellectual Merit}
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Having been going jumping from school to school throughout my childhood, I knew coming into college I wanted to learn more about Applied Math research since in school I would always play around much of the examples, and try to derive any meaningful connections in the various Math classes I took. Over the semester when I took Calc I-II, I would spend much of my time doing extra problems(which often involved proofs) that I found interesting or that were challenging. Eventually towards the end of the semester during Calc I, I was able to secure a recommendation letter for securing REU positions. During the winter break, I would embark on the painful tasks of applying to various REU's as a freshman at the time of applying I knew my chances were essential as a freshmen were slim to none. But by a stroke of luck, I was accepted into the MSU's R.E.U(Research Experience for Undergrads) as well as NAC(National Astronomy Consortium). Upon arriving at NSCL the research project that I focused on was a Statistical Analysis on data coming from Mona-Lisa, through Monte-Carlo methods I wished to better understand the behavior of a Nucleus after undergoing scattering. Upon beginning the problem I quickly began to realize that I was missing some key important tools such as Probability Theory, Scientific Python, Matplotlib, Statistics, Computational Mathematics, etc. So I had to quickly absorb some basic results from these areas to attack the problem. For a month I struggled with errors and bug's within the code I was writing, also at various times during the research, I find myself being lost in the forest and not grasping the bigger picture this was cured by having a helpful discussion with my advisor and other Graduate students. Every day felt like an uphill battle frustrated by lack of deep continuous insights in my research. Further, into the experience, I would at times have small victories such as gaining intuition on a new piece of Math or getting a piece of code working. It's from this experience of being exposed to the harsh landscape of research that has made me understand that failure is an inevitable part of the job and that the joy's of discovery only comes after multiple failures.
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I entered university with some sort of game plan on how to succeed but there was some things within my plan that were to be realized I needed additional help, I'm thankful to my mentor's and organizations that I've been apart such as WHAMP(Women and Minorities in Physics), NAC(National Astronomy Consortium), Mona Collaboration, and finally MSU's REU program. Through being a part of these organizations I learned the value and importance of guidance in one's Academic career, to help with scientific outreach I purpose making a TV series on the reality of scientific research and kind of struggles individual's have to go through to succeed.

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\textbf{Future Goals}
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As I move forward in my Mathematical career I will continue to develop my research attend conference's with the Mona collaboration and survey other research opportunities in different Math-related area's as well as continue to take more Mathematics courses to strengthen and diversify my background. I eventually hope to enter graduate school , and eventually join a research group/lab outside of academia. From my experiences I understand that Mathematics in all forms whether pure or applied is essentially a social activity therefore one has the responsibility to reach those form all backgrounds in order to advance the subject itself.


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