Why I Came First In A Research Paper

It makes me smile to think of what my mother would say about my studies. As a teenager, I was studying maths during the nights and early mornings either in quiet or while listening to music from the 80s, and she would sometimes knock on my door and smile. I wasn't good at maths, but I liked studying a topic from the basics to understand it. It's why I came first in a maths contest: not because I was good at maths in general, but because I had an interest in the understanding of each step. You would expect a maths contest paper to contain a lot of numbers, but mine was all paragraphs: I was explaining the rationale of solving the exercises, quoting the theorems in words and writing my thoughts in paragraphs justifying why it was a way or another.