Questbridge

I’m talking about my experiences with origami and how that plays into my career choice. Origami has a lot of application in satellites, solar rays and other technology. In my college match application, I talked about the James Webb Space Telescope, which is upcoming technology for observing the universe. I talked about the first experience I had with discovering that and the effect that it had on...

When I first learned about Questbridge, I thought it was meant for me. It was so easy to not go forward with the app, but I feel like I would've regretted it so much. I had someone tell me that I shouldn't do Questbridge because she had other students that had applied for Questbridge with the same background as I did that didn’t get it, so she didn't see why I would get it. So the day I was...

Submitting my app made me feel very vulnerable, just because I was sharing a part of myself that I usually never shared with anyone before. I feel like in my whole four years here nobody really knew who I was. Nobody would be able to tell just looking at me what kind of struggles that I had to face growing up. Putting yourself out there as low income is really hard, so I feel like my opinion going...