thesuggestion
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I do not want to sound too optimistic or too full of crap, but to be honest as a kid I have always loved science. Below is a mini biography if you are curious to know why.
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It was through my childhood that I found my love for astronomy and it was through some of my earliest epiphanies that I became an atheist at a very early age of 8. I have had family problems since I can remember. My dad was an alcoholic and well, not too take up too much time you can guess how that worked out for me and my mom. To escape from the torment at home everyday after school, since kindergarten, I would walk straight to the library. There I would spend all day reading books and doing my homework. I would be there until it was closing time and I continued going there up until the 4th grade. During that time my curiosity exploded, I learned about dinosaurs(technically not dinosaurs but including all the previous extinct eras) and all the extinctions that had occurred within Earth's history. Then I learned about our planet and the other planets in our solar system(Revolve in peace Pluto). I started to become aware of distances as I would always look at the signs in the freeways and tried to grasp what a mile was, then tried to imagine what a million to a billion miles would be(I had little comprehension of how vast space was). So I was curious for more..
Because of my early self education I became an honor student and stayed that way through most of my life up until the 11th grade. I was going through some trouble in that time and was having so much stress(family problems, financial problems, and the list goes on) that I fell into a depression. When I fell, my academic grades fell. I was eventually kicked out of honors half way through the 11th grade and it only got worst in the 12th grade. I somehow managed to crawl out of it and graduate. It is funny because I have such a great memory(I have memories as early in life as when I was about a year old.), yet somehow I cannot recall anything from those years that I was in the depression. Even after I thought I had succeeded I fell again to depression. This time for 2 years, after high school.
While I was thinking to myself during the depression time and I began to think statistically about things. I had realizations after realizations until I came up to this conclusion: I am one out of nearly 7 billion other humans on this planet. When compared to humanity as a whole I am indistinguishable amongst the masses. My problems where in simple words trivial along with my life. I realized there were bigger things in life and I remembered how massive the Universe was and how even bigger things existed outside of Earth. How even light which we perceive as instantaneous has a speed limit in the Universe and how even as fast as it seems it takes tens to thousands of years for it to cross distances just within our cluster and galaxy, Even our Earth which seems so vibrant with life is so silent and lonely outside our solar system or even past some of the outer planets. Then the sheer size of galactic objects overwhelmed me. So far there seems to be a near endless amount of galaxies out there. Where am I at this point, I said to myself, I was non existent. So then I asked myself, what was keeping me down? Even other things which had previously fascinated me began to recapture my curiosity. I admire how we are all made of inorganic matter, how energy is captured and converted here on Earth. Its like a switch which was previously turned off was turned on again. Since I was a kid I have always looked up at the night sky and watch in awe how funny life is. I fell in love with the idea of how the night sky was in essence a time machine. So here I am now and I feel that I must attempt to distinguish myself amongst the masses, because even amongst this vastness or near nonexistence I do exist. There is no one else like me and it motivates me to push myself to the limit.
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There are countless things I love about life and beyond it. I am driven by this tremendous curiosity to learn more and more about how everything works. I cannot explain it, but it feels like it is my only reason for being. To think less is impossible at this point, I cannot think simple anymore. Due to my life's misfortune I have had to restart from scratch. After I recovered from my last depression I put myself in school. I have talked to my counselors and have gone over the requirements for my major. I am at the point where I am about to take Trigonometry and Linear Algebra this Summer, then Pre-Cal and Chemistry in the Fall. I still have a long road ahead of me and am ready to take it on. I am still young, just 21 and have years to go before I can fully achieve this dream.
So, to all those who are currently in the field or are still majoring, how difficult has it been? Care to share the reason or your passion for it?
START OF BIO
It was through my childhood that I found my love for astronomy and it was through some of my earliest epiphanies that I became an atheist at a very early age of 8. I have had family problems since I can remember. My dad was an alcoholic and well, not too take up too much time you can guess how that worked out for me and my mom. To escape from the torment at home everyday after school, since kindergarten, I would walk straight to the library. There I would spend all day reading books and doing my homework. I would be there until it was closing time and I continued going there up until the 4th grade. During that time my curiosity exploded, I learned about dinosaurs(technically not dinosaurs but including all the previous extinct eras) and all the extinctions that had occurred within Earth's history. Then I learned about our planet and the other planets in our solar system(Revolve in peace Pluto). I started to become aware of distances as I would always look at the signs in the freeways and tried to grasp what a mile was, then tried to imagine what a million to a billion miles would be(I had little comprehension of how vast space was). So I was curious for more..
Because of my early self education I became an honor student and stayed that way through most of my life up until the 11th grade. I was going through some trouble in that time and was having so much stress(family problems, financial problems, and the list goes on) that I fell into a depression. When I fell, my academic grades fell. I was eventually kicked out of honors half way through the 11th grade and it only got worst in the 12th grade. I somehow managed to crawl out of it and graduate. It is funny because I have such a great memory(I have memories as early in life as when I was about a year old.), yet somehow I cannot recall anything from those years that I was in the depression. Even after I thought I had succeeded I fell again to depression. This time for 2 years, after high school.
While I was thinking to myself during the depression time and I began to think statistically about things. I had realizations after realizations until I came up to this conclusion: I am one out of nearly 7 billion other humans on this planet. When compared to humanity as a whole I am indistinguishable amongst the masses. My problems where in simple words trivial along with my life. I realized there were bigger things in life and I remembered how massive the Universe was and how even bigger things existed outside of Earth. How even light which we perceive as instantaneous has a speed limit in the Universe and how even as fast as it seems it takes tens to thousands of years for it to cross distances just within our cluster and galaxy, Even our Earth which seems so vibrant with life is so silent and lonely outside our solar system or even past some of the outer planets. Then the sheer size of galactic objects overwhelmed me. So far there seems to be a near endless amount of galaxies out there. Where am I at this point, I said to myself, I was non existent. So then I asked myself, what was keeping me down? Even other things which had previously fascinated me began to recapture my curiosity. I admire how we are all made of inorganic matter, how energy is captured and converted here on Earth. Its like a switch which was previously turned off was turned on again. Since I was a kid I have always looked up at the night sky and watch in awe how funny life is. I fell in love with the idea of how the night sky was in essence a time machine. So here I am now and I feel that I must attempt to distinguish myself amongst the masses, because even amongst this vastness or near nonexistence I do exist. There is no one else like me and it motivates me to push myself to the limit.
END OF BIO
There are countless things I love about life and beyond it. I am driven by this tremendous curiosity to learn more and more about how everything works. I cannot explain it, but it feels like it is my only reason for being. To think less is impossible at this point, I cannot think simple anymore. Due to my life's misfortune I have had to restart from scratch. After I recovered from my last depression I put myself in school. I have talked to my counselors and have gone over the requirements for my major. I am at the point where I am about to take Trigonometry and Linear Algebra this Summer, then Pre-Cal and Chemistry in the Fall. I still have a long road ahead of me and am ready to take it on. I am still young, just 21 and have years to go before I can fully achieve this dream.
So, to all those who are currently in the field or are still majoring, how difficult has it been? Care to share the reason or your passion for it?