Improve and enhance my essay based on the reading of admissions that would read. **After high school, I took a gap year, partly with the hope of finding my passion for my further studies. Overall, compared to last year, I believe I am now more mature and ready for college. I am also glad that I had the opportunity to explore and learn more before joining college. My society was just 12 years of straight brute force education. I know I'm good at science, but I hardly know about myself and am I really passionate about science? Am I really want to become a person that makes research?**

This time of change gave me the opportunity to thoroughly contemplate if I was truly ready for the next phase in my life. Whenever possible, I made decisions that I believed would benefit me in the long run, guided by the potential for long-term benefits. The gap year allowed me to do work experiences that I wouldn't have been able to do if I had continued with my studies.

At the beginning of 2023, I had the opportunity to teach math at the A+ Edu Center to over sixty students from first grade to college level, all struggling academically. I created comprehensive weekly study guides aligned with the Cambridge entrance exam and national entrance exam curricula. I also conducted review sessions and tutored individual students, and was glad when most of the students passed their exams.

After I took some coding courses such as fundamental levels of Java and Python, I wanted to learn how to build websites. I learned it by watching YouTube tutorials. After that, I got an internship at Erxes LLC, where I had the opportunity to gain practical experience in creating user-friendly websites. As an example, I developed a static website for a tourist camp which incorporated details from brochures and also included a gallery of photos. While I was at Erxes, I took a tour guide course, and my interest toward the tourist field and website that I made intrigued me to work as a guide.

In May, after completing a tour guiding course, I applied to ten different tour companies, and eventually received an offer to guide a group of thirty-five elderly Singaporean tourists. We visited museums, and saw various historical sites through our travels in the countryside. I thoroughly enjoyed sharing the cultural heritage and history of Mongolia with them.

During the summer, I also interned at the Asia Leadership Development Networking (ALDN), a company that develops Christian e-book applications, where I helped produce podcasts, reels, and posts to advertise our applications and e-books, highlighting their benefits and ALDN's mission and values. It's really good to see that I'm working along with my faith.

Since September, I have been interning at the Mongolian Health Initiative (MHI), where I am learning about conducting research and the importance of data. My main work is to create social content to make complex research easier to understand. It's surprising to note that the content creating skills that I learned at ALDN were connected to what I am doing now. And also the chemistry academic background helped me a lot to make it familiar to understand the research concepts and what's really happening in details. I am now taking a data science and machine learning class, excited to analyze the large-scale data gathered at the MHI and identify patterns and trends to improve public health in Mongolia.

**My gap year experiences have helped me to explore my interests, develop my skills, and learn more about myself. I am now more confident and prepared to pursue my goal of becoming a science engineer. I believe that my passion for science and my commitment to helping others make me a good fit for this field.**