普林斯顿大学
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Art masterpieces, sitting at the top of ascending staircases, crowned our school library’s second floor gallery. The first student thematic exhibit on campus “Bond with Nature,” curated by Art Share Club, was born.
The show was successful, but when all the compliments I received were praising the techniques of the paintings exhibited, I suddenly felt out of power. My intention was not to curate a Technique display, but an ART exhibit. I questioned myself the meaning of art, beyond traditional color theory and handling of lights and shadows…...
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Art masterpieces, hanging on the wall of Yard Gallery, witnessed the birth of the exhibit “Life Beyond Life: On the Horizon.” Unfolding a storyline, these paintings celebrated the courageous journey to seek passion and love, even after recognizing a world with biases and injustice. One is not “enlightened” for blinding their sights of darkness, but for dissolving it with Lights. On the opening ceremony, seeing an audience slowing down her step in front of a painting to ponder its significance, I knew I found the meaning of art ultimately: it is the spiritual communication beyond words, it is a medium to share a voice, it is every singing soul behind every imaginative canvas. It is a power in my hand, where I exert my Lights.
纽约大学
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Since I was fifteen years old, I started to do the charity work with my mom. Through her influence, I know that millions of people in China are still facing the problems such as famine, coldness and poverty. After visiting a tiny village in Binghai, I was nearly not able to sleep during the night when I thought about those children who lives in a house with almost no furniture. The benevolence of my nature drives me to make a strong resolution that I will make as much effort as I can to help children out of suffering.
With that faith, I became a student of my mom, a seasoned charitarian. Our charity work has covered several cities in province, and we decided to go further to Tibet after we heard that children there even do not have a light for reading. Then I came up with an idea that I could advocate the students in my school to donate their old lights to children in Tibet. My idea was supported by my school so that I was permitted to deliver speeches about donation and post posters in the school. The whole process continued about two weeks, I collected about two thousand lights and sent them to the school in Tibet......
波士顿大学
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
When I was young, Frances Burnett presents me the power of imagination in A Little Princess. I see myself in her depiction of Sarah: "She was always dreaming and thinking odd things...... She felt as if she had lived a long, long time."
Only for me, “feel as if” is hardly enough. Enthusiasm for travelling in my soul has been strong and it drives me towards different corners of the world whenever there is a chance. The destination has always been decided by what I have read about. Works of Michio Hoshino urged me to ride from Reykjavik to Langjokull with a snowmobiling cavalry in stern weather. Acts in Lohengrin summoned me to the Neuschwanstein Castle, where I feasted my eyes with exquisite decorative styles and all kinds of swans. The Tale of Princess Kaguya introduced me to the powerful Fujiwara family and when I was in Nara, I took the liberty of walking around the Kasuga Grand Shrine, and showered myself in the sea of lantern in the evening. I always want to experience what I have read.
弗吉尼亚大学
What work of art, music, science, mathematics, literature, or other media has surprised, unsettled, or inspired you, and in what way?
I felt my soul brutally slashed by question “can you sense the beautiful prodigy in the poet’s playing of words?” in my first literature class. Ever since then, the question echoing in my mind, I felt a certain portion of nature shackled and voice mute by chains of rhythms and rhymes, denotations and connotations. While I incessantly searched the answer to my question of the essence of poetic beauty, it was unexpectedly answered by a set of more questions. As a lighthouse, Pablo Neruda’s Libro de las preguntas (The book of questions), a poem collection consists sheerly of 316 unanswered questions plotted in 67 poems, totally illuminated my world with countless epiphanies. In voice of childish naivete, the poem 21 asks in a line “And when you change the landscape is it with bare hands or with gloves?” The poet tackled my soul with the simplest wonder in life, yet most profoundly. Without lavish uses of words and arrogant rhetoric, his plain language reflects an idealistically pure yearn only aimed for answers to explore human’s vigorous existence in practical world. Regardless “bare hands” and “gloves,” the nobler essence lies in “changing the landscape”. It was the moment that I looked around and saw the surroundings cliffs and mountains that I never even realized I may change. Greatly inspire, I decided to make my voice that had been held in for years to be heard......
加州大学洛杉矶分校
What would you say is your greatest talent or skill? How have you developed and demonstrated that talent over time?Think about an academic subject that inspires you. Describe how you have furthered this interest inside and/or outside of the classroom.
The jigsaw puzzle of Vincent Van Gogh’s masterpiece “Café Terrace at Night” had been hung humbly at the entryway in my home throughout my childhood. For years never was I interested in that crudely-painted and boringly-themed painting, with winding zigzags amid cuddling puzzle pieces, until I truly got to know his psychopathic symptoms in his late years from the movie “Loving Vincent”. I wondered how in a schizophrenic world of distortion and grotesque, there exists such palpably genuine warmth, and whether without inner throes, Van Gogh’s creation would still be soul-haunting. Thence, the mild street lights in that painting have grown gradually warmer as my passion for entering human’s inner world……
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To add more texture to my portrayal of psychology, I went beyond mere fixed school curriculum. My initial exploration in psycho-pathology cuts into the topic of modern depression. Under the supervision of doctoral researcher……
加州大学伯克利分校
What have you done to make your school or your community a better place?
320 pounds of composts were collected, which translates to about 11-kilogram methane reduction and a sustainable garden free of synthetic fertilizers. Looking at the record of our accomplishment, I could be no prouder.
Our school dining hall has a separation of compost and waste bin, but I often saw students throwing their food waste into these two bins interchangeably, which made the composting process inefficient. So I decided to join the Compost Committee to address the issue on campus. I spoke on school assembly about the environmental benefits of composting—reducing landfill and thus decreasing methane emission— and encouraged students to adopt the practice of composting. To help students differentiate between compost and other waste, I created signs and posters for the type of food that should go to each bin.
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Moreover, the garden was our ‘lab,’ where I led participants to experiment the sustainable gardening practices besides composting. We watered the crops at night to reduce evaporation and save water. We rotated the plantation on soil beds so that different plants could absorb nutrients more efficiently. Gradually, the garden workday weekends attracted more people to enjoy while learning in the field, planting a seed of sustainability in their mind.
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南加州大学
Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family.
Yanqiu Zhenchan (Nystagmus in English), a condition of unusual eye movement that occurs only 4.2 times among every 10,000 people, happened on me when I was just born.
The statement is a definition of a professional medical word. However, during my childhood, I thought it would define me throughout my entire life. As far back as I can remember, my mother had to explain this condition to people who met me for the first time......
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Besides the gossip, switching my eyes’ focus between blackboard and notebook was also challenging during the first six years of classroom life. Because of that, I volunteered as the board cleaner for each class session so that I could have ten more minutes during the break to catch up on all the notes on the board. I usually would not clean up the board until the start of the next session......