Name: Jing Hu
Department: Computational and mathematics engineer Master program in Stanford university
To whom it may concern
This is Jing Hu, who has an actuary dream.
I still remembered I watched a Hong Kong drama called “economics crisis in Hong Kong” when I was 7 years old. In the drama, there is an actuary called Stephan who is very profession in investing the stock market and he can earn lots of money in just a few seconds. Stephan can even construct different mathematics model to predict how the stock market will go. I watched this drama for many times. I like how confident Stephan is when he is presenting different stock purchasing strategies in the conference, and I like how knowledgeable he is in the stock market. Even though I was really young at the time I watched the drama, but I knew Stephan’s life is the blueprint of my future. I want to be confident when I present my data in the conference and be able to construct any kinds of mathematics model from tons of number I got from the stock market.
I believed every person may just good at one specific thing, and I will call this specific thing as a “soul job”. People who found their “soul job” is very lucky and they will spend their life on it and love it until the time they die; unfortunately, many people did not find their soul job until the time they die. Fortunately, I found that working with mathematics model is my soul job. I realized I love constructing math model and want to work with it in my life after I studied math in last two years. I have took math classes in high school, and I thought math was just punching numbers in the calculator, even in the college level math classes. Nothing is interesting and challenging in math classes. However, I took a stochastic process course last year, and this class blows my mind and makes it clear on what I want to do in my life. This course focuses on how to construct the probability model with the data you had. This course really opens my mind on what is model constructing and how this will be done. At the time I am constructing the mathematic model, I felt like I am walking towards my dream and creating the future I want since I was 7 years old. In the past year, it was the hardest year in my life, because I did not have enough time to sleep and I needed to prepare for midterms and quizzes everyday. However, I felt I was the happiest, since I got the chance to work with the thing I like and have passion on.
I had worked in a CPA firms in the tax season when I was a college sophomore. This job is the greatest job I have ever had in my life. I prepared, finalized the tax forms and prepared the balance sheet for companies. Honestly, I worked in the CPA firms just because the CPA firms paid better than any other firms, and I did not expect to learn anything from it. I thought working in a CPA firms has nothing to do with model constructing. Obviously, I was wrong. On the first day I worked in the CPA firm, my boss gave me many stacks of paper with many numbers on it and asked me to prepare a balance sheet with my coworker. While I was processing the data, I learned how much liability they had, how many assets they owned and where major revenue is from. I thought preparing financial statement and balance sheet seems unrelated with model constructing, but actually, they are tightly connected. Financial statement and balance sheet is like the X-ray for either a patient or a normal person, and the modeling is the prescription to make a patient becomes healthier or how to improve a normal person’s health. Without knowing what’s going on in the company or in the specific industry, it is impossible to construct the best financial model that benefits the company or the industry. Working in the CPA firms taught me what financial statement is and what is included in just a few sheets of paper. I also learned how important a financial statement is related to the model constructing. In addition to that, I realized I love working with numbers and I did choose a right career for my life.
Base on the working experience I had in the CPA firms, I realize I still need more knowledge to handle the math model, and this is the core and only reason I want to go to graduate school. I know two years of upper division math classes are not going to prepare me to be a good math model constructor and even an actuary. I believe the future world is all depends on math modeling, and math modeling is going to be the key for most industries in the future. As a result, in order to be successful in life, I have to be master in math modeling. Being an actuary who works with math modeling is my goal in the future. I love predicting future with the number I got in the present, and I love the future follow the way I predict it will be. Obviously, with only undergraduate math knowledge is not enough to fulfill my dream and become an actuary, going to a professional school and improving my math knowledge is the next big step in my life.
After getting the advance knowledge in graduate school, I will be knowledgeable enough to handle the math model. If possible, I will move to east coast to get some working choice. As an international student, the U.S. working experience is precious. I want to learn the career skills which are not developed in China. Afterward, I will go back China with my knowledge and skill, to start making my dream come true. Following Stephan’s step, I am going to be an actuary as well.
However, first of all, I hope you could give me the chance to learn the knowledge so that I can make my dream come true.
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