Physics Personal Statement (Lancaster)
I was always a top student at school and I liked my subjects. Iquite suddenly found my greatest interest in Physics and secondly in Maths. AsI started to study Physics further, this passion was strongly confirmed when Ivisited some top universities' Physics departments. I watched TV programs suchas "Engineering Connection"," Bang Goes the Theory" , andthen I went deeper through "The Big Bang Machine" by Prof. Brian Cox,the book "The End of Time" by Mr Julian Barbour, and a meeting I hadwith Dr Laura Kormos from university of Lancaster which gave me a betterunderstanding of Particle Physics. Then it started to develop. My mind was fullof questions about how does the LHC work? Time? Gravity? The Big Bang? DoesHiggs Boson really exist? as a consequence of that how everything relating tothem can be understood, or how can model a explain everything. I do like todiscuss physical phenomena. Therefore quite often when I am talking to myFurther Maths or Physics teacher I end up with long discussion about Physics.Also as a result of this interest I am tutoring AS Physics to my friends withthe College's approval which is a great opportunity for a Physics debate. Ilove researching the topics that I am interested in, and gathering bits ofinformation from the Internet, books, tutors and videos. My main interest is"The Theory of Everything" and how the best scientists in the worldsuch as, Albert Einstein with his theory of relativity, try to explain amechanism for everything. When I search, I feel that I am getting lost, andit's because I see while the universe is significantly complicated, it has beendesigned in such way that its complexity does not increase its entropy, as itmakes everything work in the most harmonic way. Thinking about all of thismakes me feel where actually I am and each time I try to discover new things inPhysics I feel like I have a clearer picture of the universe. I have learnt oneimportant lesson from Physics : initially it does not matter that we areable to understand what different things are, but it is important how to usethem. For instance, we do not know what light is but we know how to use it, andthe same thing with gravity. After that you are approaching the absoluteunderstanding of it, thus you should be brave enough like Gerolamo Cardano andnot be afraid of its difficulty. During my school time I was involved in manyactivities. These activities includes a student robotic team that I joined andwe won several national awards including the first place in the roboticcompetition of the Iranian Inventor's Society in the field of "FighterRobots". Team work is also very important for me; I established a magazinepublication in my secondary school, which taught me cooperation and management.Working on magazines opened up a window to the world of IT and the Internet.Thanks to the opening of the IT section of my high school, I started to helpthe school as the head of the section. This was a great opportunity to improvemy IT knowledge, which I then used to join it with Physics by the idea of avirtual Physics lab through linked computers in IT lab. As a consequence I wasable to participate in upper level Physics activities. I am also interested inBasketball and listening to Classical music and Dance music. I do like to watchcomedy shows or films as I am a cheerful person. I strongly believe that Ishould make goals and aim to achieve them. These goals motivate me to follow myplan. My general goal in my life is to learn to use my knowledge of science inorder to help others.
I was always a top student at school and I liked my subjects. Iquite suddenly found my greatest interest in Physics and secondly in Maths. AsI started to study Physics further, this passion was strongly confirmed when Ivisited some top universities' Physics departments. I watched TV programs suchas "Engineering Connection"," Bang Goes the Theory" , andthen I went deeper through "The Big Bang Machine" by Prof. Brian Cox,the book "The End of Time" by Mr Julian Barbour, and a meeting I hadwith Dr Laura Kormos from university of Lancaster which gave me a betterunderstanding of Particle Physics. Then it started to develop. My mind was fullof questions about how does the LHC work? Time? Gravity? The Big Bang? DoesHiggs Boson really exist? as a consequence of that how everything relating tothem can be understood, or how can model a explain everything. I do like todiscuss physical phenomena. Therefore quite often when I am talking to myFurther Maths or Physics teacher I end up with long discussion about Physics.Also as a result of this interest I am tutoring AS Physics to my friends withthe College's approval which is a great opportunity for a Physics debate. Ilove researching the topics that I am interested in, and gathering bits ofinformation from the Internet, books, tutors and videos. My main interest is"The Theory of Everything" and how the best scientists in the worldsuch as, Albert Einstein with his theory of relativity, try to explain amechanism for everything. When I search, I feel that I am getting lost, andit's because I see while the universe is significantly complicated, it has beendesigned in such way that its complexity does not increase its entropy, as itmakes everything work in the most harmonic way. Thinking about all of thismakes me feel where actually I am and each time I try to discover new things inPhysics I feel like I have a clearer picture of the universe. I have learnt oneimportant lesson from Physics : initially it does not matter that we areable to understand what different things are, but it is important how to usethem. For instance, we do not know what light is but we know how to use it, andthe same thing with gravity. After that you are approaching the absoluteunderstanding of it, thus you should be brave enough like Gerolamo Cardano andnot be afraid of its difficulty. During my school time I was involved in manyactivities. These activities includes a student robotic team that I joined andwe won several national awards including the first place in the roboticcompetition of the Iranian Inventor's Society in the field of "FighterRobots". Team work is also very important for me; I established a magazinepublication in my secondary school, which taught me cooperation and management.Working on magazines opened up a window to the world of IT and the Internet.Thanks to the opening of the IT section of my high school, I started to helpthe school as the head of the section. This was a great opportunity to improvemy IT knowledge, which I then used to join it with Physics by the idea of avirtual Physics lab through linked computers in IT lab. As a consequence I wasable to participate in upper level Physics activities. I am also interested inBasketball and listening to Classical music and Dance music. I do like to watchcomedy shows or films as I am a cheerful person. I strongly believe that Ishould make goals and aim to achieve them. These goals motivate me to follow myplan. My general goal in my life is to learn to use my knowledge of science inorder to help others.
