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Dec 24, 2017
Undergraduate / Personal essey: Apply for New York University in Shanghai [2]
Prompt: Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete with it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
Before I wrote this essay, I asked my parents and my close friends, "What do you think of me?"To my surprise, all of their answers were that I have a special love for creatures and nature. Then I was lost in thought. I looked into myself. I found myself a person commune with nature. So I'd like to introduce myself from my communication with nature.
When it comes to my love for nature, it evolves from my innate curiosity about creatures and I'm always keen on exploring the origin of things. Once I was young, I found out that apples, oranges or other fruits I'd eaten have seeds but bananas don't. I wonder where bananas come from if they don't have seeds! So I asked my mom and I got the answer that banana tree will grow a new one through its stalks under the ground. I kept on asking why only bananas grow like that but others not. I seemed so serious about the doubt that my mom drew a picture for me and explained how gene usually be passed on from generation to generation. But bananas is a kind of plant called triploid so it can't pass down the gene in a usual way, which lead to its special way to grow. It is my curiosity and keeping on asking why that lead to such full of spirit of exploration. So I every time I learn a new thing or discover something new, I will guess and then explore. If I can't get the satisfied answer temporarily, I will keep it in my heart and search the answer through my everyday life.
I'm fascinated about creatures' structures and their working theories. I'm patient to observe their procedure of working and interested in doing experiments to test my hypothesis. I first noticed human imitating animals' structures when I was in primary school. I tried to drag a gecko from the wall but failed. I found it incredible that such a tiny body should has such huge power. I asked my father and I knew suckers' inventor was gecko! I was interested in how flytraps could catch insects so I bought a pot of flytrap and carefully put an insect onto its trap with a camera filming it. At first, nothing happened. Suddenly, the flytrap closed swiftly and tightly. After reviewing countless times of the video tape, I guess it might be the sticks on the trap that play the tricks. The flytrap closed for too long time so I bought a new pot. Unfortunately, it rained on my way home and the flytrap got wet. To my surprise, its trap didn't close when the rain fall on it. After I got home I first use water to dripping respectively on its bare trap and its sticks, it remained open. I suspected my previous guess but I still used a wooden stick to test my hypothesis, it indeed close when I touched its sticks. This result seemed show that flytraps can tell water from other things. Then I learnt that flytraps have accurate working system that makes them can avoid trapping wrongly because of the rain or others. This kind of patience and carefulness makes me be able to discover more things from normal things or situations no more than usual, which enables me learn much from the same thing.
I also like observing creatures around me. For example, when I go out with others, they always find me suddenly stop at somewhere and fix my eyes on a tree or something seemingly no more than usual, while actually, I was observing a bird or discovered some insects or just finding out something unusual on it. I pour my love in nature, thus I am also loved by nature. I once observed parent birds feeding their children; one bird flew into my sight with the fish in its mouth and the fish was disappeared among its children almost the moment the parent bird stopped at the edge of the nest. Then the bird flew away and returned after several minutes. What were waiting for it are the ever-hungry children. I kept my body unmoved, observing them for about an hour and that parent bird also kept flying into and out of my sight without resting for even a second. Looking at the ever-unsatisfied children birds always asking for food from parent bird, I found myself just like them. I, from my heart, felt I must do what within my power to repay my parents. I also deeply felt the tenacity of life from a vulnerable butterfly which bumped into a spider net but finally escaped and flying freely among the flowers though its wings were incomplete. I didn't understand some of the truth taught in class genuinely until nature taught me. I think maybe it is my original emotion that makes me appealed by emotional nature rather than the truth instilled into our mind without emotion. The teaching method now we receive is too inflexible: we learn everything from the books or pitifully few pictures. But from our feelings we can easily know that we feel the emotion, feel this world not only through the cold, boring words, but also the art, the music, the practice we ourselves carried out and many other forms. Anyhow it should be various and colorful. That's the reason why I like observing creatures around me. I It brings much fun to me and it makes me really feel life and teaches me how to learn truth of life from nature.
Prompt: Some students have a background or story that is so central to their identity that they believe their application would be incomplete with it. If this sounds like you, then please share your story.
my love for creatures and nature
Before I wrote this essay, I asked my parents and my close friends, "What do you think of me?"To my surprise, all of their answers were that I have a special love for creatures and nature. Then I was lost in thought. I looked into myself. I found myself a person commune with nature. So I'd like to introduce myself from my communication with nature.
When it comes to my love for nature, it evolves from my innate curiosity about creatures and I'm always keen on exploring the origin of things. Once I was young, I found out that apples, oranges or other fruits I'd eaten have seeds but bananas don't. I wonder where bananas come from if they don't have seeds! So I asked my mom and I got the answer that banana tree will grow a new one through its stalks under the ground. I kept on asking why only bananas grow like that but others not. I seemed so serious about the doubt that my mom drew a picture for me and explained how gene usually be passed on from generation to generation. But bananas is a kind of plant called triploid so it can't pass down the gene in a usual way, which lead to its special way to grow. It is my curiosity and keeping on asking why that lead to such full of spirit of exploration. So I every time I learn a new thing or discover something new, I will guess and then explore. If I can't get the satisfied answer temporarily, I will keep it in my heart and search the answer through my everyday life.
I'm fascinated about creatures' structures and their working theories. I'm patient to observe their procedure of working and interested in doing experiments to test my hypothesis. I first noticed human imitating animals' structures when I was in primary school. I tried to drag a gecko from the wall but failed. I found it incredible that such a tiny body should has such huge power. I asked my father and I knew suckers' inventor was gecko! I was interested in how flytraps could catch insects so I bought a pot of flytrap and carefully put an insect onto its trap with a camera filming it. At first, nothing happened. Suddenly, the flytrap closed swiftly and tightly. After reviewing countless times of the video tape, I guess it might be the sticks on the trap that play the tricks. The flytrap closed for too long time so I bought a new pot. Unfortunately, it rained on my way home and the flytrap got wet. To my surprise, its trap didn't close when the rain fall on it. After I got home I first use water to dripping respectively on its bare trap and its sticks, it remained open. I suspected my previous guess but I still used a wooden stick to test my hypothesis, it indeed close when I touched its sticks. This result seemed show that flytraps can tell water from other things. Then I learnt that flytraps have accurate working system that makes them can avoid trapping wrongly because of the rain or others. This kind of patience and carefulness makes me be able to discover more things from normal things or situations no more than usual, which enables me learn much from the same thing.
I also like observing creatures around me. For example, when I go out with others, they always find me suddenly stop at somewhere and fix my eyes on a tree or something seemingly no more than usual, while actually, I was observing a bird or discovered some insects or just finding out something unusual on it. I pour my love in nature, thus I am also loved by nature. I once observed parent birds feeding their children; one bird flew into my sight with the fish in its mouth and the fish was disappeared among its children almost the moment the parent bird stopped at the edge of the nest. Then the bird flew away and returned after several minutes. What were waiting for it are the ever-hungry children. I kept my body unmoved, observing them for about an hour and that parent bird also kept flying into and out of my sight without resting for even a second. Looking at the ever-unsatisfied children birds always asking for food from parent bird, I found myself just like them. I, from my heart, felt I must do what within my power to repay my parents. I also deeply felt the tenacity of life from a vulnerable butterfly which bumped into a spider net but finally escaped and flying freely among the flowers though its wings were incomplete. I didn't understand some of the truth taught in class genuinely until nature taught me. I think maybe it is my original emotion that makes me appealed by emotional nature rather than the truth instilled into our mind without emotion. The teaching method now we receive is too inflexible: we learn everything from the books or pitifully few pictures. But from our feelings we can easily know that we feel the emotion, feel this world not only through the cold, boring words, but also the art, the music, the practice we ourselves carried out and many other forms. Anyhow it should be various and colorful. That's the reason why I like observing creatures around me. I It brings much fun to me and it makes me really feel life and teaches me how to learn truth of life from nature.