... but was also offered a place in one of the best high schools in Jakarta, where my interest in mathematics was heightened. My parents, realizing the benefits an overseas education will bring me, decided to send me abroad for college. Unfortunately, as Indonesia was facing serious economic crisis, I decided to attend a community college first before transferring to a four-year university, so as to lighten my parent's financial load. Hence, I have been studying in the Diablo Valley College for one and a half years ......