An Advanced Degree in the Field of Engineering or Applied Science at Columbia - Personal Statement Example

My duties as a teaching assistant include recitations, holding office hours, grading home works, and exams in probability theory. As a teaching assistant in Linear Algebra and Differential Equations, my duties included holding office hours, grading exams, and conducting workshops.  I was enrolled for leadership in teaching an advanced writing class to enhance workshop learning for students. I am working as a personal tutor and as a tutor for the university-tutoring program at the University of Rochester; my courses as a tutor include Introduction to Economics, Economic Statistics, Econometrics, Calculus I & II, Theoretical Linear Algebra, Probability.

This experience has improved my knowledge requirements in the interdisciplinary subjects of the course. I have thus the strong knowledge and skills for mathematics, economics, and interdisciplinary subjects like econometrics, economic statistics that I deserve admission for the course. I published one article per day on a local business page in Chinese Taipei in the summer of 2005; I also attended press conferences and wrote some reports in special columns. I participated in some copy desk editing work and helped with translating between Mandarin and English.

I also made money by doing online business especially in the advertising field for different Internet sites. In this course once in a week seminars are conducted with the people from the financial world like Wall Street etc, to know about the happenings in the financial world. My skills will be highly helpful to understand the situations. I worked for a library as a Circulation Desk Student Supervisor, Project Supervisor, Stack organizer, this is helpful to complete the assignments related to the library work fastly.

I have a bachelor of science degree in mathematics, a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics and a minor in philosophy with a GPA of 3.93, 3.91,3.9 respectively. These are the basic requirements of the course. I have a good GPA for the subjects. I have a GRE score of 630 out of 800, which is relatively a good score to get admission. In addition to this, I have done some research papers in the mathematics of political modeling, on measurements of power, and fairness of voting at the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY.