At the time that I started to consider possible careers, I knew that Mathematics was by far my favourite subject. I really enjoyed how everything fitted together perfectly in a set of rules, allowing us to solve incredibly large amounts of problems, but I also enjoyed the challenges and strange problems I came across in Maths Olympiads and Additional Program Mathematics classes. On the other hand I also really enjoyed drawing cartoons, painting and photography. I suppose you could say that I got the perfect balance between the genes of my mother, the artist, and my father, the actuary. The one thing that I knew for sure was that I didn’t want to get involved in the financial field and simply replicate processes such as in accounting. I wanted to be involved in creating something new, creating something that was mine. In the purest form I wanted to be an inventor. I used to have designs of various contraptions, ranging from a claw machine for Market Day at school to outrageous hydraulic powered green cars, on scraps of paper lying in a pile on my desk. With creativity and a love for science in mind, I eventually decided that I wanted to either study Computer Science or Electrical Engineering. For the second half of Matric I was relatively sure that I would choose Engineering due predominantly to a major interest I had developed, and still have, in renewable energy, particularly solar energy, which was sparked by a Geography research essay I wrote in Matric. I even began playing with ideas for self-sustaining batteries and algorithms for optimising solar energy gathered by solar panels in a very basic yet hopeful manner, in my head this time. Eventually though, I came to the conclusion that I was better at solving theoretical problems than the more physical problems I would face in Engineering, and I chose Computer Science. This I coupled with sufficient amounts of Mathematics electives, Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, Fundamentals of Mathematics and Statistics. I now have a little notebook in which I write down all my ideas for programs and algorithms that I think of along the way, including computer games, sports applications, education applications and a continuation of my renewable energy ideas. Although I have not yet learnt all the techniques needed for these codes, I attempt creating the code of my more simplistic ideas when I have free time.