Blog Response #1: Option C

           

The epiphany of when I decided to follow a career with a mathematics foundation was in the 7th grade. I was on my school's math league team and we were killer; we were the four smartest math kids in our grade and had great teamwork flow. We took first place at the district competition and headed to States in Tampa. There had to have been well over 50 teams from Florida schools, most of them magnet or private schools. There was an intimidating aura because we were surrounded by hundreds of child math prodigies just like us. We were phased by that though, because we murdered the team portion and ended the competition in 4th place! I was also the only person in the room of over 300 to get one of the questions right and the commentator called me out for it. The shining moment of doing as well as we did made me feel like I had a God-given talent of excelling at math. I felt like I could use my powers to do good for society. Thus, the engineering dream emerged.

               Looking back at it, I feel like that moment was a prime example of my math skills. I kept up with math league until 10^th grade and won a good amount of them. That was probably one of the main reasons I got into UF in the engineering school. So all in all, what I thought would take me far in life was a gateway into a hopefully successful math career.