University of California

PROMPT: What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time? I’ve always strived to find connections among the dissimilar. It started when I was a kid and my dad taught me Sudoku. As he explained the rules, those mysterious scaffoldings of numbers I often saw on his computer screen transformed into complex structures of logic built by strategy. Gradually, puzzles became a constant in my life. In elementary school, I began searching for patterns in the world around me: thin, dark clouds signaled rain, the moon changed shape every…