U. C Personal Insight Questions

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U.C Personal Insight Questions
Describe the most significant challenge you have faced and the steps you have taken to overcome this challenge. How has this challenge affected your academic achievement?

One of the most significant challenge I faced was during my junior year in highschool. During this year I took a math class known as trigonometry/precalculus, this class is taken before any calculus or high level math class. When I was taking this class as we began to progress into the much harder math material I started to loose track on the new material the teacher was teaching and didn’t really understand what we were doing or what we had just learned. The only way to get a better understanding of the lesson was to stay in after school and
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I really love math because you deal with loads of different formulas and another reason i love math is because we use it in our daily lives. Everything we do in this world has some sort of math involved in it, think about it even your breakfast lunch and dinner has some type of math involved in it. Another reason why I love math so much is because it's the only subject we can use to solve any sort of problem in this world. Math is the only subject in a school class that is fun, for example in an english class or a language class there rules and certain things you have to get right in order to succeed and understand the class. But in a math class there isn't just one way to solve a problem there are multiple different formulas you can use to solve one problem. This is what makes the class more fun, you can find different and new ways to solve problems. For example, once in my math class the teacher taught us a one way to solve a math problem which took many steps to get to the answers, a fellow student discovered an easier way to get the same answer using less steps. Math has been a very influential subject because it not only taught me how to solve problems but it also has helped me find out what I want to become in the future. Math has influenced me to become a mechanical engineer in the future because they deal with lots of math and have to use many formula to figure out the efficient solutions to the development of machinery and products, ranging from small component designs to extremely large plant, machinery or