 Berkeley has completely transformed me and I really think that I can hardly recognize a person I was four years ago. I feel more confident in being able to do the things that I want to do. I found this tremendous passion for math and I've also been involved with community service and more service activities than than I would have ever expected myself to be. You look at the triangular decomposition into U-minus. When I look at an interesting math problem I think first of all like anybody it can be intimidating depending on the problem but then if the problem is sufficiently interesting I think it just kind of like takes over your mind. Walking along campus when you're like in the middle of a conversation even like in the middle of your sleep it's basically if there's one problem that you want to solve that's it's basically all you are. When I was in high school and I was a teenager I think I really struggled a lot with self-doubt and anxiety issues that you know kind of crippled me to some extent and really prevented me from you know seeing a purpose or like seeing a motivation to do the things to do anything really. As soon as I came to Berkeley it was like an immediate click I was just so engaged by the kind of academic discourse that happens here. I was you know just kind of in awe immediately of the professors and how much they knew and I would just try to soak up everything that that I could. One of my favorite things about playing the harmonium is the style of music is completely improv so the complete creative freedom you have when you're playing is one of the greatest of fields to me and I think in many senses it makes it very similar in many ways to research mathematics and science in that there's you know no clear rules no definite bounds or nothing like that it's you know more or less all open frontier and yours to discover and explore. Most of the campus community here is so you know invested emotionally personally and there's a passionate about social issues and you have a community of students here who really feel like they can make a difference and and actually go out and do make the difference in the world. From my freshman year I've been volunteering at Bahia which is an after school program for elementary school aged Hispanic and Latino children and we sort of been working with them on like English and language arts activities and that's been undoubtedly one of the most meaningful experiences of my time at Berkeley. What does this sequence converge to point wise? Then the GK's my next plan is to begin a PhD program at MIT in mathematics and my dream after that is to hopefully one day become a professor and be doing math research full-time. I'm certainly very sad to be leaving Berkeley but I think I'll definitely leave a different person I'll leave to some extent always carrying Berkeley with me.