I was first drawn to math at a young age because of the challenge the subject provides with being able to find a solution. Through my experiences within academically challenging summer camps and classes, math began to be the building block of many exciting opportunities in my education. Programs like the PreFreshmen Engineering Program have allowed my advancement in math and science to continue challenging myself. One particular moment in my life, in my junior year of high school, was when my science and math classes began to overlap with the learning material relating to one another. My calculus, physics, and chemistry class started to have intertwining topics showing math is the basis of our knowledge in understanding the world around us. The realization of being able to piece together how derivatives and integrals were one of the most valuable missing pieces in the puzzle of beginning to comprehend the formulas to generate the functionalities of our universe was a first step in deciding my future career. The insight into a future pursuit of being a professional in the mathematics and scientific world began to finalize as I started college. My majors of study of mathematics and physics will aid in planned goals in analyzing space and everything residing in the space-time continuum. The material I have learned so far has further broadened my knowledge and sparked the desire to learn more in the world of math. Questions like: about how math is applied to computer programming, what kind of math would you use when calculating the curvature of space-time, how math and physics progressed over time, and what research needs to happen to solve unanswered questions; are provoked as the semesters goes on. Throughout my education so far, the more I realize how math is everywhere. Math is present in the construction of the house you live in, the bridge you drove on to get to work, and the currency you pay for your favorite food is naming a few. The ability to swim in the water and walk on land is possible through the mathematical explanations of physics. Much of our daily life is achievable from the wonders of engineering; the discovery of math allowed society to advance from before civilization existed to putting technology outside our solar system. As time progresses, math will continue to be a meaningful part of my life as I hope to aid in researching aspects of planetary astronomy and astrophysics. The ability to utilize programming to calculate the processes of black holes or the collisions of galaxies might be in my future as a mathematician.