Undergraduate / 'Exuberance' -- Common App Essay #6 Free Choice [6]

My Common App Essay -- appreciating your generous advice!

Exuberance

"I want to be like a single cell." said I, at a natural science class when my teacher asked for the creature to make an analog of me, "It seems simply fresh and alive, but it has an elegant and metamorphic structure; it is ephemeral, compared with the globe, while it keeps transforming, duplicating, covering all around with the most exuberant power."

Wide spread in natural science, my interests once granted me with the label as "versatile", merging physics, astronomy, biology, geology, environs--and the most, chemistry. Totally fascinated, I considered it as the sorcery of nature. Ever since, my vitality kept flaming: either libraries or labs had my marks of figures; I learned, questioned and affirmed, and in a desirable return, I could have a view of the living magic created by tubes and chemicals. Once I even rushed, with an extra-size lab-coat, heavy-and-muggy boots and partly-worn gloves, to class--a performing course--so I told about my "fashion" vividly and made another fun, then kept rambling in the mysterious world with inspirational, changeful imaginations with unextinguished sparkles. And I again engaged myself in labs, again learning, questioning and affirming, in alacrity.

"Oh, dear, your DNA must be composed of convoluted polymers named fancy and truth." said my teacher. Yep; I loved envisioning the splendid view I had kept in memory since absorbed in photography; I enjoyed the scenery revolving ever in daydreams at a sunset on the coast side; for the chemicals as if invoked to act by wizards but also certified to react by founded properties, things were even more alluring since I could grasp the underlying and have a lucid insight.

Thus I was going to bring about the integration. I studied the "sorcery", the visual effects of chemical reactions, and tried to deliver a selection of them in a flowing show. At first the abundant types of reactions dazzled my eyes as I could not make an aesthetic interlock; fortunately, I got a finesse. I asked for electrolysis to evoke the reactions, and used knowledge about materials and apparatus--electrodes, batteries, glass, graphite, PET & PEDOT--to build a special equipment by which one could move a electric-transmissive brush at will to switch on or off any unitary electrolysis baths arrayed in lines and rows with thin bulkheads, whereby the colors of pH indicators in solutions varied in control and only water and electricity was consumed. After operation when units accorded to the landscape, the pictures on the water-made screen--once a symbol, a flow of waves, then the image of laurels along a lake--seemed a reunion of scenes hosted by water. The series of scenes exulted as the water vibrated, recalling me of all the imaginations drawing near to reality.

"Yeah. I love them both." I exhibited my live-scenery show in lab suit, and found the integration influencing my thoughts and pursuits, exerting the exuberance of inspirations like a blossom which derived from a single cell with double helix. A thirsty dreamer seeking for truth. An imaginative researcher enlivening his fancy.

Thank you in advance!

Undergraduate / 'Inspiraducation' - Emory Supplement [2]

1.
Prompt:What are the unique qualities of Emory University, and the specific school(s) to which you are applying (Emory College of Arts and Sciences, Oxford College, or both), that make you want to become part of Emory University? In what ways do you hope to take advantage of the qualities you have identified?

Text:(limit 250 words)

'Inspiraducation'

It is the excitement due to distinctive educational environment and research opportunities for students since first year that keeps me envisioning myself at Emory College of Arts & Sciences, especially in the Interdisciplinary Science Program for Integrating Research into Education. I'm seeking an education at 'a major research institution with the close student-faculty interaction of a small liberal arts college', as descriptions of INSPIRE indicate. INSPIRE exhibits Emory's insights and supports for innovations, which draws me the most. I'm ebullient to have this aim, for I can get devoted promptly in interdisciplinary researches.

For instance, I plan to carry out a research on factors and brain cell functions relating to human cerebral recognition of beauty and clown in my first or second year at Emory. The sense of beauty is mysterious and universal, and for years I have wondered whether a method could be applied to measure this emotion probably determined by biological processes. Both arts and sciences charm me a lot, and for years I have learned in natural sciences. I am curious about the potential interrelations of them. I believe the supposed biological processes would be directed by electro-biological effects on human nerves and influenced by individual distinction. Hence, the research will cover neuroscience, psychology and electromagnetism.

Even though the faith stands that mystery is one nature of arts and sciences, inspiration is another. I am looking forward to prospects of researches as academic treasure hunts, which stimulates my desire in education at Emory College.

Haochuan Wei

(250 words)

2.Optional
Prompt:What is your favorite ride at the amusement park? How does this reflect your approach to life?

Text: (limit 250 words)

Adventure Uncertain

'Such certainty is beautiful, but uncertainty is more beautiful still.'
View with a Grain of Sand, Wislawa Szymborska

I suffered agitation at the edge of precipice for a bungee jump. 'How can I hold my body when dropping as if on an air crash? Would the landscape change a bit when I look downward? What if a bird occurs when I am rushing with nothing but a nylon?' Much seemed enigmatic while daunting, and I could not balance an appetite for bungee, the mission of a ton, the adventure uncertain.

As I leaped forward, insecure impulses scanned my nerve in a mere flash; then, for the first time, I saw the charming city skyline this way. My eyes got dry by the wind, but I remained goggling. Air flowed into my sleeves, collars, and socks; I was captivated by this sense, literally. As my body was revolving, the scenes varied to skyscrapers in the central business district, cedars in the through greenbelts, blocks in the colorful estates, and Roller Coaster and Ferris Wheel a mile away, along a resolute leaping-out, a dormant stay in suspension, a breathtaking descending, a delicate curve in air, and a buoyant, sweet scent of land.

City was the city, rope was the rope, and air was the air, while life was not just the life; it felt like digressing into an ineffably kaleidoscopic dream, of which I was a devoting active, a willing captive, with an uncertainty divertive, a detachment sensitive.

Haochuan Wei

(250 words)

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