Julian Pullo Research Paper

I am Julian Pullo. I was born in Boston and after visiting it in 2009, I made it my mission to return when I grew up. I was astounded by the weather, urban setting, stores, and all the things to do overall. Another passion of mine is math. I’ve always been good at math but I never realised just how good I was until I took both Geometry and Algebra 2 Honors in the 10th grade and got over 100% in each class. These two passions are what drew me to the movie Good Will Hunting. Not only was this movie a cocktail of all my passions, the character Will Hunting felt relatable. Before high school, I had wicked bad grades because I couldn’t focus and I didn’t trust medication to help. But after overcoming my stubbornness for trying medication, I was able to get on Concerta (a stimulant medication to help me focus) and start high school with a fresh start and use my potential to get good grades. I draw a parallel between my
experience and that of Will Hunting’s in which he had to overcome his stubbornness with getting therapy and his potential in math to do better work than laying brick. I took my love for Good Will Hunting further by attempting to learn how to solve the two blackboard problems.
I figured with my math skills, I could learn how. While I didn’t learn how to write a generating function for walks i to j, a function for one specific node to another, or why there are only ten different homeomorphically irreducible trees for ten nodes, I did learn how to write an adjacency matrix, matrix for a number of step-walks, and how to draw homeomorphically irreducible trees of any number of nodes. This experience taught me that what I can do is only limited to what I can learn. While I love math, I don’t just sit around doing math in my free time waiting until I’m old enough to move to Boston. I have other passions that I spend time on. For example, I’m also passionate about retro games. I collect retro games because I like how they’re more diverse, shorter, and generally cheaper than current games. I have also been in a club at my school called Game Club since the 10th grade. There, we discuss and play video games of all
ages. Should I get into college, what could I bring? I would be happy to do math tutoring for students who need help. Also, I would be willing to start a retro game club. I would be happy to help with mathematical research. This is because living in Boston gives me my personal ideal weather, variety of colleges, historical sites, and more. I owe it to Boston to use my skills to improve it. Boston has problems with traffic, overpopulation, need for new buildings but also need for historic preservation. I should apply my math skills to satisfy these needs.