Kelly Zou: Mathematics, Statistics, Data Science, and Dreams

摘要

I entered an election for the first time when I was in High School Affiliated to Fudan University in Shanghai, China. Our homeroom teacher and a wonderful mentor, Mr. Dehong Wang, encouraged the students to volunteer by taking charge of student activities. There were multiple roles to be filled, and I entered the race to become a league representative. I discussed with my boarding-school roommates, wrote a speech with solid suggestions about how to improve our organization and connectivity among students, and gave a speech in front of all my classmates. Then the ballots poured in ... Probability became an extremely useful tool that my classmates can still recall tallying up and counting the ballots one-by-one on a blackboard. It was a gut-wrenching moment between the two fierce candidates. After being declared the winner, I helped other class officers on events such as celebrating the New Year, other national holidays, and traditional cultural events such as the Moon Festival.