The Riddle of Life

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„Lidan, that is not what you should be looking at!“, my teacher says with a somewhat understanding smile. He can never be angry with me for being curious. Unwillingly I close my book about Christian religion and return to the genetic code I had finished working on half an hour ago. My teacher and I both know, I left a mark where I had stopped reading and will direct to it when he pretends to not watch. A single word can describe my existence: Curiosity. Having been contained for the last seven and a half years, it is like a beast by educational policies. Once unleashed there is no way to stop it.
A little riddle: 56784=4; 11111=0; 88811=6; 62257=1; 75213=?
I have spend frustrating hours trying to find the right solution. I could have looked up the answer but I wanted to figure it out on my own. I wanted the challenge. That is why I want to be a Benjamin Franklin Scholar. The program challenges me to understand the mystery humans are and their place in this world and the BFS seminars require me to emerge deeply into a topic. “Introduction to Experimental Psychology”, for inst...

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