When I was really young, I was the stereotypical curious child - always asking questions about the world around me, and always asking “why?” after my ex… read more

Since middle school, my life has revolved around math. After I joined my middle school’s Mathcounts club, it became my home within my school. I loved pa… read more

Growing up, math was by far my favorite subject in school. The clever manipulation of numbers exerted an irresistible attraction on me, and I soon began… read more

My physics journey began not with physics, but with math. As a young kid, I loved learning about math. When I was about three or four, my grandparents t… read more

As a child, I was fairly lazy and reluctant to do anything academically related. At the direction of my parents, I tried to do well in school, but the n… read more

I remember being fascinated in elementary and middle school with how the math I learned tied so easily to the physical world around us. That a quadratic… read more

As a kid, I constantly bombarded my parents with questions: “How does electricity make a fan turn? How does a refrigerator keep food cold?” I’m sure my … read more

I formally started learning physics in high school, but my first interaction with physics actually started when i was much younger, when my parents firs… read more