Write five sentences describing yourself, your life and your experiences that form an accurate portrayal of who you are.


  1. As a child, who bore the treachery of chemotherapy for the rare blood disorder Histiocytosis from the age of eleven months to eight years old, I view the world and the suffering of others through a lens of empathy and experience.

  2. By sixth grade, I had established myself as a tinkerer, due to my personal work in automating many of the utilities in my room including the blinds, fan, ceiling fixtures, and closet door.

  3. Another one of my hobbies is astronomy, an activity that embodies the discoverer in me; when I am outside on a crisp, cool night, peering through my telescope at mysterious, ancient, yet marvelous worlds, a sense of serenity and awe washes over me, the likes of which no other activity can replicate.

  4. Looking at my profile, one could characterize me as various things: a scientist, an inventor, a student, a tennis player, a social worker, an environmentalist, and a polymath; but, most of all, I see myself as an idiosyncratic wayfarer. 

  5. Neither do I possess the hubris to be one such great man presently nor can I claim to have that restless gene I like to think I have, but as surely as E = mc2, I strive to be my own atypical lunatic that the world will have the privilege of meeting.