User talk:Gundamfrecrisis

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My Personal Statement
My father has told me many times that what one gets is what one pays. Keeping that in mind, I have set up my mind to work in engineering related fields in the future when at primary school and then kept absorbing knowledge of related areas so that I can get a cumulative advantage in this area. I determined to be an engineer at high school because I have a strong background in mathematics since primary school and have always been developing that till now in college. My school Shanghai Jiao Tong University is a famous school for engineering in China which ranks among the top two engineering schools. My institute is a joint institute founded by SJTU and the University of Michigan encouraging creative thinking and emphasizes practical experiment experience in an English-only teaching environment. I determined to be engaged in the Radio Frequency circuit field which requires most math ability. Since then I have carefully arranged my courses such that they all apply in my future career. From the sophomore year to the junior year, I have taken up to ten courses in Radio Frequency circuit design and related fields. They consolidated my foundation and creativity. To go under the hood I took a Partial Differential Equation course and an Advanced EM theory course, crucial for sophisticated devices. But most problems must be solved by numerical analysis. So I learnt numerical analysis as well as the ADS software in detail. Always keeping a skeptical eye on new things, I even discovered a small mistake in a paper called “Miniaturized Wilkinson Power Dividers Utilizing Capacitive Loading” published on IEEE MICROWAVE AND WIRELESS COMPONENTS LETTERS, VOL. 12, NO. 1, JANUARY 2002. Under the guidance of my professor, I modified the mistaken formula and made simulation by ADS. The results corresponds perfectly to theoretical results. To be practical I participated in a project about wireless power transfer. In this project I first learnt the Vector Network Analyzer. Our team began from simple coils then to sophisticated data analysis through gradual transition. We made sure the electrical field intensity satisfied the safety requirements. But after that we faced a bottleneck since the efficiency reduced inverse proportionally with distance between coils. So I translated several papers in Japanese to have more guidance. After we had done some additional research on the Internet, our professor gave us a paper about resonant frequency power transfer by a team in MIT. We then did experiments following their paper. I learnt equipment operation, data analysis, teamwork and collaboration in this project. This firsthand experience is my treasury. In my graduate project of operational amplifiers, We divided the projects into four phases with each one as a controllable amount of work and responsibility, making the schedule and progress more clear and risk management easier. We first assigned to each task workload credits then divided our works and responsibilities voluntarily like a free market. We gained praise from the teacher. We had been extremely careful with references to our sources and consulted professors frequently so as to avoid plagiarism. I gained confidence from the smoothness of the project. In this autumn semester I volunteered to be an after-class teacher in the Afutong Organization for children of migrant workers in Shanghai, poor but still quite busy with their low income jobs. The discrepancy between advanced teaching methods from international children organization for kids and those in China let me feel responsible to contribute more for the young. I was also impressed by how globallization can make a difference in every corner in the world. In other fields, I have a minor in law and have self-studied all courses in math minor. I am also interested in studying economics materials from books, RSS feeds and podcasts. In a presentation in economics law course, the professor mistook me as an economics student as I did a professional economics analysis about market definition. I have taken two TA positions of differential equations and probabilistic methods out of 143 eligible potential competitors in my grade. For that I made slides every week for the recitation classes and kept the score recodes online updated on time. My recitation classes have had higher attendance rates than my peers since I have not only presented academic knowledge methodologically but also integrated communication skills and give tests to consolidate their knowledge. After the TA job, I volunteered to hold a complex variable seminar for sophomore students having trouble to be enrolled in that course. About ten students finished the study within a spring term. I also know Japanese well with a top level credential of Japanese Language Proficiency Test, and have taken two courses in French and Korean. I have integrated speed reading and mnemonics into daily study, improving my GRE verbal score from 490 to 650 above 93% test takers as a non-alphabetical language speaker. Also I have organized my study life by my GTD system methodologically by MS outlook in which I even created a revolutionary hierarchical task project management tool. It greatly reduced my mistakes and emergent occasions as compared to my sophomore academic year. My efforts have won me four dean’s lists and an academic excellence scholarship out of 143 peer students, and a “three good student” award out of 34 classmates. UIUC rank among the top 3 research and engineering schools. I heard from one of my senior in your school currently that teachers there are all quite professional and the coursework is quite challenging, which are both desirable for me. Probably I can even get another TA job there. He told me there is abundance of intern chances since many IC companies are around there and also a high chance to get a PhD degree. Through all my college years I have been working hard on my major and minor; so I’m sure I can withstand the pressure at UIUC and finally succeed at UIUC. Aptitude is everything. I have even accelerated it by a methodological study system. I wish I can realize my dream by hard work at UIUC.