My love for math roots from starting in the house, with my mom constantly making us solve problems on a worksheet everyday like a routine. In addition, with a higher level of education in middle school, I took 2 levels above the average math curriculum level with all As. That took me to high school, taking advantage of the level I was already in and took the more rigorous levels of math courses at school. Although not all of my grades were As in high school, I tried my best to obtain the highest grades as possible. Towards the end of my sophomore year was when I applied to work as a Math tutor at Mathnasium, and through that I learned a lot teaching students ranging in grades from Preschool all the way to middle school. I not only love the subject, I love the way people teach and learn from it as well. Learning math was the easiest subject for me, and being an orderly person who follows rules, the subject satisfies many of my orders. At school, I started a club called STEM Support with my friends who also love math to help younger students with their math-related homework during lunch.

I strive to pursue Biomedical Engineering as a priority. It offers many opportunities for me as I work to achieve my goal, to create an open community to improve access to medical equipment and needs for those with less privileges. Throughout high school, I held my position in the NAF Engineering Academy to experience more about what the engineering field of our country accomplishes everyday for everyone. While obtaining many valuable academic lessons and meeting people who shared the same kinds of values as mine, I strive more and more to pursue a career as a clinical engineer. Although I was deeply involved in engineering, I always had interests in the medical field too. Being able to touch on both the medical field and the engineering at the same time as a clinical engineer working with medical technologies would satisfy my desire of wanting to help create better advancements in our society. I wish to guide myself through the vast field of medicine engineering in order to uncover and obtain solutions to the many medical challenges we share as a nation. In my entire life of 18 years, I have almost never seen my dad going to a hospital or doctor's appointment for his own needs. Due to the financial situation we were constantly being chased by, he selflessly decided to save his trips to the clinics, in order to provide more potential trips for his daughters. That being my reason, by generalizing the medical discoveries to make it easier for doctors to find solutions, I hope to lift off the burden of financial tacit commitment to help people like my dad. In contrast, another part of my “why” to major in Civil Engineering is to satisfy my long-term childhood dream of becoming an architect. My grandfather was an architect in South Korea, and my mom worked as an interior designer. Always enjoying spending time with my sisters to build lego pieces and miniature houses, my dream job for much of my early adolescence was to be able to design and build real-life buildings and other environmental resources, just like the role models I grew up with. The challenges the healthcare field faces for national advancement is most important to me. My dad and people like my dad, who have trouble affording costs, being one of the many reasons why, I hope to strive toward engineering better medical technologies and mechanisms. There are numerous people who hold no choice for treatment solely because of the fact that they cannot afford the process. If more and more treatment methods are innovated, generalizing the treatment to gain immunity to most of the small diseases can save hundreds, even thousands or millions of trips to the hospital. Supporting hospitals and providing them with more aid to save our lives will save your families’ and possibly even your own. Although sustainability is as important as well, I believe supporting the progression of medical treatments for anyone no matter the circumstances will support the world of humanity greatly. Through practice and emerging new solutions to many of the challenges we face in the medical field, we will be able to save lives faster and more efficiently. Additionally, I often watch K-dramas or shows that have storylines based on the medical side of society, and the struggles that follow most with those happen to be with financial needs and costs. Similar to my family, I hope to help those kinds of people through becoming a contributor to the biomedical engineering field. With these motivations, I hope to tackle the medical, as well as the engineering field of challenges that our nation face everyday in hopes to help create a better, stronger, more innovative country. This scholarship would support my first steps out of high school towards my goal of being able to study the biomedical engineering field in college, and I hope to receive it to make it worth it for all.