Physics and mathematics were the only subjects that I ever excelled at during my school

years. I never really thought about what is it that I was most passionate about, but for
some reason physics and mathematics just sort of came naturally to me. First I was
planning on majoring in pure mathematics, but due to the fact that Zewail city of science
and technology doesnt yet have a mathematics major, I had to settle for a physics
major, and to be honest, I am glad I did.

I have also always been interested in programming, mainly due to the fact that I enjoy
video games, and on a quest to try and build my very own video game, I tried learning
several programming languages. Python was the first language I learned, it got me
familiar with the basics of coding, and building algorithms from scratch, then I started
learning Ruby, which wasnt really that much different from Python. During my college
years however I started learning C# and I built a couple of video games using a program
called Unity, and this helped me realize how much I enjoy programming.

During the summer of my 3rd year of college, I had the pleasure to be a part of the
CERN summer student program, where I was given a series of lectures on subjects that
touch both theoretical and experimental physics. I was also given the opportunity to work
on the CMS experiment. My work mainly consisted of running simulations using Geant4,
which is a toolkit that uses C++. The experiment was concerned about the effects of
adding an additional timing detector in front of the ECAL (Electromagnetic Calorimeter)
on the energy deposited in the ECAL crystals, after the simulation I would use ROOT to
analyze the data by graphing the energy deposited in the ECAL crystals. This trip helped
me get familiar with yet another programming language, C++, and it also helped me get
a glimpse of how work would be like in the field of computational physics.

I am currently working on my senior thesis, where I will be working with one of my

colleagues under the supervision of one of my proffesors on discussing the classical and
quantum properties of magnetic monopoles. I chose this topic because I find
electrodynamics to be one of the more intuitive subjects, and while I first intended to
choose a topic that was completely classical (without any quantum mechanics or
quantum field theory involved), I decided to choose a topic that had a little bit of quantum
theory in it, such that it will help me get a more clear understanding of the topic, basically
I wanted to gvie quantum theory a chance.

After graduation, I am looking for a diverse scientific community to work on my post

graduate studies, and that's why I am applying for X, for I believe that it can provide me
with such an environment. I am mainly interested in working on either topics in physics
with heavy elegant mathematics such as String theory, or computational physics