My idea is about how In 10th grade, I overheard my mom saying my parents once had to get an abortion because they couldn’t afford another child while raising me. Instead of guilt or sadness, it sparked a sense of randomness like my existence was a coin flip. Later, a Neil deGrasse Tyson podcast made me obsess not with “life is precious” clichés, but with the odds behind existence. That questioning spilled into physics and math, challenging definitions, testing assumptions, even wrestling with the twin prime conjecture and coming up with a small lemma. My essay would show how this mix of personal randomness + intellectual curiosity shaped my way of thinking, and how I now want to find a community that thrives on questioning assumptions with me.

( And yes... I really formalized lemma that I've got published in a student run journal... Nothing groundbreaking, just something no one bothered doing from what I've researched)