Personal Statement for Computer Science Master Application

The purpose of the personal statement (sometimes referred to as a statement of purpose, or “the essay”) is to provide a narrative of your approach to the PMP (https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/pmp/?utm_source=pce.uw.edu&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=(not%20set)https://www.cs.washington.edu/academics/pmp/?utm_source=pce.uw.edu&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=(not%20set)). This is also where applicants can share particular strengths that might not appear in their other application materials, or where they can provide context for any aspects of their academic or professional backgrounds that they feel might be of concern.
Please craft your statement around the following prompt:
Please describe your academic and professional backgrounds and qualifications, the areas of study that most interest you, and how the PMP will help you reach your professional goals. Please limit your response to ~750 words.

My background:
I graduated as Aerospace Engineer from University of Washington in June, 2018. Because of the downside of the job market at that time and my non-citizen identity, I have trouble to find a Aerospace related job offer. However, the computer science market was growing, plus my interests in this filed. I decided to be a bootcamper and spent most of my time to self learning. In the meantime, I was running a food truck to maintain my financial needs. Finally, I got my first cs job offer in early 2020 as an SDET till now. (can refer my linkedin profile https://www.linkedin.com/in/wenfu-norman-lei/https://www.linkedin.com/in/wenfu-norman-lei/). Due to AI and ML field getting more and more popular now. I want to enhance my skill in these field by attending UW cs master program.

Journal/personal reflection

For each week, in addition to the lecture, you will be give an appropriate reading (included in the Outline) and AV site (TBA) for your review. Your task (Part 1) will be to identify the most important idea(s) from each of these modalities as they contribute to your learning. Once identified you will briefly explain why they are important to you. You will record those conclusions in an electronic course journal.

Responses should be no more than 250 words each, it is not necessary to meet this word limit. It is simply a personal reflection on what you have grasped from the lectures.

No need for citations, lecture transcript will be provided.
Discussion topics are listed below:
1. Algorithmic bias
2. Can privacy rights conflict with free speech and expression?
3. Privacy and your rights
4. Big brother is watching
5. Government surveillance
6. Totalitarian surveillance
7. The impact of human rights when it comes to surveillance
8. Is your personal privacy that important?
9. Mass surveillance is where we are.
10. How can we balance the need for national security with the right to privacy?
11. What are the risks of sharing personal information online?
12. How does the use of facial recognition technology infringe on personal privacy?
13. How can we educate individuals about their privacy rights and protections?
14. How do privacy concerns impact the use of healthcare technology?
15. Should governments have the right to monitor individuals’ online activity and communication?

Midterm Essay for Fiction

This is a midterm essay for my course, fiction. we have to choose a work of fiction and write an interpretive argument regarding one of the core themes of a single fictional text. I am posting the instruction that my professor has given us because that has all the information. One of the important things would be to provide evidence of your interpretation:

Instructor instruction about the essay: (just follow this, if any questions please let me know)
For your midterm essay, construct a close-reading-based analysis that advances an interpretive argument regarding one of the core themes of a single fictional text. You may write about one of the texts we have looked at this semester, another selection included in An Introduction to Fiction, or a different work that you clear with me. Consider the formal elements of narrative fiction covered in class this semester and draw on the critical terminology we have covered – as appropriate. Also, remember that your interpretive claims need to be grounded in engagement with evidence from the text in question in the form of short quotations or paraphrases. Again, the heart of your essay needs to consist of providing a detailed analysis of the development of a single major theme; if you are just summarizing the work in question, you are not satisfying the criteria of this assignment.
Your essay should draw meaningfully on at least two scholarly secondary sources – that is, these sources should be woven in substantively to your line(s) of argument to advance your interpretation, provide cultural or socio-historical context for your analysis, and/or offer a contrastive analytical take on the text(s) in question. These sources should not be used to throw random quotations into your essay as “garnish,” draw on biographical author data that isn’t connected substantively to your analysis, or introduce ideas that you don’t connect up within your analysis. You may use peer-reviewed books and articles (in print or from the online databases our library subscribes to), but no webpages—though copies of print articles made available online are acceptable).

Please run your proposed topic (text and analytic focus)

Thank you so much!

What might cause the fall of Big Brother?

In a well-organized essay, answer the following question:
We know from the evidence in the appendix that Big Brother eventually fell from power. Assuming that Goldstein (or O’Brien and the group of Inner Party members who O’Brien claims wrote this book) is right, which of the four causes is most likely to have been the primary cause of the downfall of Big Brother?
Support your argument with evidence from the novel.

Module 13: Discussion

After the Kingdom of Judea fell to the Babylon, the Jewish people went through centuries of Empires ruling over them, from the Babylonian rule, to the Persian rule, to the Greek rule, the brief Maccabean period, and finally the Roman period, which of course is where we pick up in the New Testament. While every ruling empire was different, and not all the ruling empires put the Jewish people in captivity, all oppressed, repressed, or suppressed the people of Israel in some way. Please discuss what it would feel like if you were Jewish person during this time of great uncertainty. How would you feel if your people were constantly being conquered by another empire? Before you respond, please read and watch the videos earlier in this module, as they will help you get a better grasp on what was going on during the Intertestamental Period.

What is Leadership and why is your own leadership development important to you?

The Forest Service’s Middle Leader Program supports the Leadership Succession Plan intended for high performing GS 11 and GS 12 employees interested in enhancing leadership skills and abilities. High performing GS 9 employees will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
Focus areas include:

Developing self-awareness around personality preferences
Creating conditions for robust dialogue
Leveraging conflict to improve team effectiveness
Team/program leadership
Developing emotional intelligence
Creating a personal/professional vision.

Please consider these items as you prepare your essays in the nomination package:
Are you receptive and interested in personal growth?
Do you seek feedback and desire to increase your self-awareness?
How will this training make you a stronger leader?
How might you use the benefits of this program to enrich and benefit others?

Correspondence Packet Memo

Memos are a kind of “informal” report because they are designed for internal audiences, but that doesn’t
mean that they are truly informal. Your memo should follow the guidelines in this module’s PowerPoint.
Additionally, the memo should be a follow-up to your email. Since your email is a problem-solution email,
consider this memo to be an announcement to a team, or a company-wide memo, that explains the
problem and its solution.
Length: Approximately 400 words
Problem: Must be realistic but not necessarily real.
Solution: Should be your own.
Audience and Authorship: Must represent a real company/organization and be written for an audience
outside of this class.

The role of the state in economics in that ideology.

In this course, we have surveyed several political ideologies that attempt to address the problems that we see in the world today. From the list below, pick two ideologies and answer the following question from the perspective of that ideology: how should the state address climate change?
Potential Ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism.
You may also substitute any ideologies that you’d like! Whichever ideologies you pick, you may want to consider some of the following:
The role of the state in economics in that ideology.
The moral mandate of the state to the future of the nation.
Political rights of individuals and groups under that ideology.
Which of the two ideologies that you chose develops the most compelling solution to climate change, and why?
2. We have studied several ideologies in this course. You probably have well-founded disagreements with at least one of them. With that said, it is important to carefully consider the merits of ideas while evaluating the reasons and histories behind our preferences. Choose an ideology (ideally, one that has been at least attempted in a nation-state) with which you disagree. What are the merits of this ideology? What are the drawbacks? Do you think that a more compelling version of this ideology could be developed and implemented? If so, what changes would need to be made? In this course, we have surveyed several political ideologies that attempt to address the problems that we see in the world today. From the list below, pick two ideologies and answer the following question from the perspective of that ideology: how should the state address climate change?
Potential Ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism.
You may also substitute any ideologies that you’d like! Whichever ideologies you pick, you may want to consider some of the following:
The role of the state in economics in that ideology.
The moral mandate of the state to the future of the nation.
Political rights of individuals and groups under that ideology.
Which of the two ideologies that you chose develops the most compelling solution to climate change, and why?
2. We have studied several ideologies in this course. You probably have well-founded disagreements with at least one of them. With that said, it is important to carefully consider the merits of ideas while evaluating the reasons and histories behind our preferences. Choose an ideology (ideally, one that has been at least attempted in a nation-state) with which you disagree. What are the merits of this ideology? What are the drawbacks? Do you think that a more compelling version of this ideology could be developed and implemented? If so, what changes would need to be made? In this course, we have surveyed several political ideologies that attempt to address the problems that we see in the world today. From the list below, pick two ideologies and answer the following question from the perspective of that ideology: how should the state address climate change?
Potential Ideologies: Liberalism, Conservatism, Fascism, Communism, Socialism.
You may also substitute any ideologies that you’d like! Whichever ideologies you pick, you may want to consider some of the following:
The role of the state in economics in that ideology.
The moral mandate of the state to the future of the nation.
Political rights of individuals and groups under that ideology.
Which of the two ideologies that you chose develops the most compelling solution to climate change, and why?
2. We have studied several ideologies in this course. You probably have well-founded disagreements with at least one of them. With that said, it is important to carefully consider the merits of ideas while evaluating the reasons and histories behind our preferences. Choose an ideology (ideally, one that has been at least attempted in a nation-state) with which you disagree. What are the merits of this ideology? What are the drawbacks? Do you think that a more compelling version of this ideology could be developed and implemented? If so, what changes would need to be made?

trial procedure

This week’s assignment will allow you to use some creative freedom. You will create a Trial Procedures Flow Diagram/Chart that will help you visually identify the process of how a trial proceeds.

Format: Just about any visual presentation medium can be utilized. For example, you can use PowerPoint or Prezi, a Word document, use Adobe programs, or any program with which you are familiar.

Contents: Include all the steps in the criminal jury trial, a minimum starting point is the Opening Statements and a minimum ending point is the Closing arguments. You can include points in the system before and after the trial, but they are not required for this assignment.

How Graded:

Accuracy – are all the steps included and in the correct order?
Presentation – is the format visually appealing?
Clear and Concise – is the information clearly and concisely written?
Free of Errors – are there minimal errors regarding spelling and grammar?
Creativity – is the content displayed in a creative manner?This week’s assignment will allow you to use some creative freedom. You will create a Trial Procedures Flow Diagram/Chart that will help you visually identify the process of how a trial proceeds.