Personal Essay: Persistence and Learning Calculus

In any scientific undertaking only precision and accuracy are satisfactory, when faced with unique ordeals, it is only through dedication and extensive work can we achieve such perfection. This I believe was the underlying premise behind Einstein’s words, when he accredited not his great intellect but extensive focus and taught to achieving many of his accomplishments. I too fully embrace the merit of such principles and had experienced a period with which the practice of such ideals was pivotal to my success while in secondary school. In 2009 I had enrolled into Sixth form, because of the nature of the Caribbean’s educational system and the advantages it would deliver. There I had the opportunity to take on a rigorous advance curriculum that contained many perquisites helpful towards pursuing a chemical engineering degree. Since more students had now embarked on the Caribbean Advance Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) instead of the General Certificate of Education (GCE) and Edexcel programs, this posed a unique challenge for many teachers, more so mathematics teachers, who were versa...