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As we both know, Penn State values, above all, Integrity, respect, discovery & community. As a possible
future member of this virtuous family, I have to say, I love it.
Back in Junior year (4to año for me), fresh out of quarantine, we were getting…
Demolished, for lack of a better word.
And while I did suffer the relentless aggression of my math and physics teacher along with everybody
else, chemistry was oddly easy and fascinating for me. While I had studied chemistry last year, that whole
online thing really didn’t give it the justice it deserved, plus the fact that we never even used the lab once
was some truly heartbreaking stuff. Now that we were back to actual school, I grew in love with
chemistry, while everyone else was dying at the thought of having to actually study again.
As the year went on though, I could tell that people weren’t just lazy and ignoring class. They were
genuinely not understanding, even when they paid their full attention to everything the teacher said and
jotted down.
At the request of a couple of my friends who were struggling, I asked to use one of the classrooms after
school and gave them a pretty in-depth summary on what would go on the test next week. Whole thing
lasted about 3 hours tops and it didn’t seem like a big deal, but as I got to school the next day, a whole
bunch of people came up to me asking if I was giving classes; when the next class was; could you explain
so & so.
Seeing the incredible demand for chemistry classes, I started giving classes every week in the main
classroom, for the low-low price of giving me a high-five and not being afraid to ask me about anything,
no matter how dumb. I thought only a couple people were serious and would show up, but every week an
upwards of 30 people came, asking if we had class today.
We covered from simple inorganic nomenclature, bonds, and stoichiometry to the harder orbitals, organic
nomenclature, and isomers (that class I actually gave this very week as a senior!)
Being a teacher, able to teach my friends and classmates about something I hold very near and dear to my
heart was oh so fun and I cannot imagine a better place to help me continue this trail than Penn State.
I look forward to studying more about chemistry, physics & math in Penn’s College of Engineering
materials engineering program, taking experimental chemistry in CHEM 111 & 113, learning about the
structure and synthesis of crystals in MATSE 400, & being able to be a mentor for someone with the
same passions as me, just as my mentor did before me.