Hi I am Daniel, I live on Long Island but I was born in South Korea. At Baruch College I am planning on studying Actuarial Science. I have the typical two parent two child household in which my mother is a teacher, my dad a custodian, and my sister and I work in the restaurant industry. We need to get our money somehow to be able to go through college. Throughout my life I had done a lot of different extracurriculars that have made me who I am today. Starting the summer before Kindergarten I remember my first piano lesson on an upright piano my parents were lucky enough to find on Ebay for two hundred dollars starting my career as a musician. I have been playing piano ever since and have joined the band and the jazz band at my high school. Throughout my life like many other kids in music, I have gone through the treacherous levels of NYSSMA trying to make your parents happy while you spend countless hours practicing your one piece of classical music, scales, and sight reading. This is just one part of me though. Although I do not exactly look the part, I love sports. I spend too many hours watching Soccer, Football, and Basketball, but I tell my parents maybe I’ll be doing sports analytics one day so maybe this is important for me to be watching. During high school, I played basketball and soccer in which our Soccer Team won the country championship in my senior season. Although it is sad to say goodbye to that part of my athletic career, I plan to pursue powerlifting in the winter. With my genetics, my squat is extremely strong, but we do not talk about the deadlift. Academically I have always been interested in mathematics and philosophy, weird combo right? I have loved the definite answers of mathematics and mainly just because it is interesting to learn the different methods we can solve problems in the world as mathematics is in all aspects of everyday life. With philosophy I have been interested in the ambiguity of the answers about how we look at life in which we do not have the answers to everything. This picture is of my mom and I before prom. The most important thing in my life I believe is family, and that is why I treat the time I have with my parents very important.