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I decided to come to Western because I really like the campus and the environment. 

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I chose to be a math major because I loved the curriculum I was working with and I enjoy the students and the faculty. 

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This term I am taking advanced calculus. 

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Today I presented and evaluated a function and its limit and proved that the function approaches a limit L. 

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I'm also taking Ring Theory and in Ring Theory we can describe this as a form of abstract algebra 

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where we look at sets and operations on those sets.

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The best thing about our WOU Mathematics Faculty is that they are very student oriented. 

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There's a lot of one on one interaction with all of our professors. 

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I'm also involved in a softball program and I've played center field here for four years. 

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Right now as I finish my degree I'm helping in being an assistant coach. 

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As an assistant coach I work with the outfielders and I take what I learned from the game, 

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and help them develop as players. 

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I have found that my work on the softball field has helped me in the classroom to be disciplined 

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and keep on top of my work as well as maintaining structure. 

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My career goal is to be a math teacher. 

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And I plan to get my master's degree in teaching in the summer after I graduate. 

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I would absolutely recommend Western to other students because my time here as a student athlete has been exceptional. 

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And the math department has been incredible and allowed my math skills to grow and prepared me to be a teacher. 

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Western Oregon University is exactly what I was looking for. 

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