User:Bentheredonethat

I've finally updated this page since graduation...whoo.

When considering my perception of the Missouri Academy in retrospect, I am tempted to idealize my experiences, but I realize that this is neither accurate nor beneficial to anyone who may be browsing this to get a perception of what the Academy is like. As a result, let me put it another way -- the program provides a lot of opportunities, but there are plenty of sacrifices to go along with them. For me, these sacrifices were minimal, and my academic and social growth at the Academy far surpassed anything I can possibly conceive could have resulted from staying at my high school.

As a random side note, I highly encourage graduates to join the Missouri Academy Alumni and Friends Association as soon as possible. Seriously, just do it.

I will be attending the University of Missouri-Rolla (like every true Academy graduate does) starting in the fall of 2007 to complete a Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science. Options after this include graduate study in mathematics (at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, hopefully), professorship, and employment at the National Security Agency. I've recently started to more fully appreciate fields in applied mathematics, but I'm still leaning toward having a pure/theoretical research focus in graduate study.

To all of the now second years out there, maybe I'll see some of you at UMR (scratch that, the Missouri University of Science and Technology, or MO S&T) soon.