Undergraduate / 'to explore the fantastic world' - my PS, any suggestions? [3]

In a hot and restless afternoon, hundreds of cars are running on a street. A "Cadillac" is just behind our "Blue bird". Suddenly, Cadillac crushes into the right-hand bend line and becomes in front of us. We keep the constant speed in the original straight ahead line. A brunch of sunlight reflects from Cadillac's mirror, and glares our eyes. However, Cadillac's "success" is just temporary. When we get near to the crossroad, Cadillac fails to get back in the straight ahead line since there is no space for it. We can easily continue on our way, while Cadillac is forced to go into the wrong way.

It reminds me of a deep autumn, my first wild-hiking to see a scene of waterfall hidden in the mountain. At the very beginning, I was very anxious of being the first one arriving at the splendid waterfall, so I jumped onto a stone far from me instead of two close stones. As a new visitor, I fell into the cold water. My shoes, even socks were wet. Eventually, I became the last one in our group. A rush decision, I thought that would make things faster, turned out slowing down my whole process. "More haste, less speed!"People all know it, however, people always tend to choose the cut way in the exact situation. So did me. After the terrible experience, I thought about my step firstly before every move, and chose the most efficient and safe way to go.

My motivation got enlarged when I heard the sound of water falling on the stones stronger and stronger. Finally, I arrived at the foot of the waterfall. It is so glorious, huge number of water gathering together, falling from the top and moving constantly. I began to wonder where the waterfall comes from. Our team leader told me that there is a spring on the top of the mountain, which offered continuous water to form the waterfall and pour this area. It's amazing. To see the spring, there would be more way to go. I had to go cross the waterfall which was at the top of my head. It was so steep and scared me off. Our leader asked "don't you want to see what it really is? If you looked forward to it, you have to give effort for it." Then I cleared up my mind and started my journey again.

On the way, I forgot about the tire and thirsty and just longed to the magic I was going to see. After another one hour of hiking, though getting sweat wet, I finally reached the very top of the mountain and saw the source of the waterfall. On the top of mountain, the final meet with my dreamed spring was not so fancy to what I expected. It was just a small hole in a tough stone. But it did lead me to see a great scene. Standing on the highest point, I felt the world was not so vast for me reaching every corner of it if I concentrated to walk step by step.

Indeed, the one, who clearly knows where he is going and insists in it, often achieves his dream in the long run. However, the one, who easily gets distracted by lures and decides to change their direction temporary, usually be farer and farer away from his original goal. As if I, sitting on the blue bird's back, safely flies into sky to explore the fantastic world.

Undergraduate / 'run like a winner' - UC prompt #2 for UCLA [13]

Thank to my gene, I have a pair of keen eyes to find problems in my life as well a sound creative mind to solve them.

My mother is an excellent diagnostician with ultrasonic in the biggest hospital in Tangshan. On average, there are 60 to 80 patients needing my mother's examination per day. Sometimes, it is hard to find fat patience illness for the thick axunge. To get a clearer picture to diagnose their problems, my mother sometimes needs to maintain a same gesture for quite a long period that her body will find reluctant to take and push patients' body with much effort. So, when she finishes work, her carpus would be stiff and inflexible and this made me worried a lot. At the right time, I just learnt about mechanics in physics. Then a mechanical arm to push instead of my mother came into my mind. I began to study on inventing it to make my mother's work easier.

I asked my physics teacher if my idea was possible. His words encouraged me a lot, "Of course, it is possible, only if you have a general idea. But it won't come true until you have a specific plan." I looked through kinds of physics books to look for the samples of different machines. After some study, I decided to take advantage of hydraulic pressure to make a tool as the probe. Then I made a design drawing and showed it to my mother. She liked it very much and said one of her patient is a medical treatment engineer who can help me to turn the design to be true. Next, I worked with the engineer to make the model at every weekend. My mom proved it was really helpful, but it's not convenient as we expected since it cannot turn directions. It would take time to restart it while changing directions. So we added a direction roller on the connection between the mechanical arm and the probe. Finally it showed that my machine worked effectively after several successful trails. I was so proud of it because it can help my mom and others with the same work.

I consider myself a perfectionist. When I am confronted with problems, I would try my very best to work it out. When I get an idea, it just like to conceive a baby, I would sacrifice whatever it would cost regardless of the pain in previous ten months. I am born to run and run like a winner. Personally, the world's development depends on those like me, who would take challenge to create something new to solve current problems.