February 28

Statement of purpose
The Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)

MASTERS IN COMPUTATIONAL AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS.

As a Latin American woman, I have multicultural roots and with vision very wide of the world., my

greatest strengths include my open mind, my high adaptability,

curiosity about the sciences, and especially my profound respect for multicultural

experiences and diversity. I was born and raised in a town of Antioquia, EL Bagre. I lived there until I

was 17, later I moved to Caucasia - Antioquia and I currently live in

Medellín- Antioquia. My experience started as a volunteer working in my municipality with young adults,

teaching them about different topics including education. This has helped me stayed active in my field of

study and committed to working on achieving my goals and fulfilling my dreams. As many Latinas and

women in sciences, we have

suffered in special ways as a result of the stridently machista character of our sub-cultures;

Therefore, as a woman and a mathematician, I have the responsibility to show that women

can contribute to science and do science. I hope to contribute to a greater awareness of

the role of women in society and Latina's challenges as students of exact sciences

and members of the community.

I started my mathematics degree at the University of Antioquia a year and a half after

graduating from high school. Of course, that year and a half I studied English and other subjects. At the

same time, I was looking for scholarships and other funding options to be able to pay for all my needs

while in school, in another town and far from home. what it was going to cost me financially to go to

university at that time for being the daughter of a couple of peasants with no money. In the end , I was

able to get a scholarship for good academic performance during my time at school. I started taking classes
at the university and my parents were happy, I breaking my family standards by being the first woman to

attend university and start a degree in the exact sciences.

Many things changed for everyone at that moment. My father died during my second year at the

university and that brought a lot of changes to my life and my mother's. I had to start working and looking

for other ways to support myself and help at home. I started

a small business where I helped school children with their math homework.

When I started working, I already had little time to study. In addition, my career has always

been very difficult and some of the teachers are not so kind to women. I went through the sad days; I did

not have time to assimilate to my father's death and I was also dealing with a lot of school related stress.

Many times, I wanted to not finish what I had started, University, since I came to believe that I had no

opportunity in the and that my aspirations were very high knowing my family roots.

But not all moments were l sad and overwhelming, at that time I made good friends at the

University and many families welcomed my business, thus being able to live many experiences. That's

why my Wanda business was my salvation at that time and it's my best personal project right now.

Other experiences that have helped me grow as a person. It was during my time in Caucasia, I was in

social groups defending the rights of different vulnerable communities, and I began to value my role as a

woman in society and in academia.

At the time of the pandemic, I was able to explore the multiple fields of action of the mathematics

undergraduate degree and I decided to focus on statistics, finance and computational mathematics. Since

2021 I have lived in Medellín, but I now study

mathematics at the main campus of University of Antioquia. I am currently doing me

degree work in Machine Learning applied in MLOps and I have a beautiful life in this city,

where I have met wonderful people and I continue working to pay for my degree and help

at home.

I still want to grow in all fields. I want to get a degree in applied computational mathematics at
the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) because I am convinced that your program is in the optimal

area for preparing me for a lifetime of service in the sciences, especially for women and population with

low economic resources. I see special business initiatives that are targeted to women around the world,

and especially mothers and youth who are especially hopeful to shield the next generation as much as

possible from the abysmal social problems of gender discrimination.

I am enthusiastic about new community scientific (mathematics) that are emerging in the area of

programming that are dedicated to help the sciences in different topics, especially in the statistics field. I

am convinced that the master in Computational and Applied Mathematics at the Rochester Institute of

Technology (RIT) is best tailored to my interests

and long-term aspirations with math and the application of the same.

The Master’s Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics will provide me with the

optimal tools to help me study scientific careers and thus overcome barriers and free myself from old

beliefs so that I can follow my true passions and make the decision to live the world of sciences as a life

option. I want to contribute to the scientific world in the best way, which for me is giving way to other

women to be mathematicians, physicists, chemists, etc. and thus be able to achieve higher levels of

education. I am a firm believer in lifelong education and I want to constantly grow professionally,

emotionally, and spiritually in celebration of our multicultural work environment. I want to help people

make decisions career wise. This is why I want to become a professional in sciences

and mathematics, working in the education sector and at companies of different levels,

growing with my mathematical consulting company that today is called Wanda and it is

my greatest source for motivating others to study mathematics.

I am convinced that the Master’s Program in Computational and Applied Mathematics at

the Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) is the key to the realization of my professional

aspirations.