Undergraduate / Science Club; STANFORD SUP- INTELLECTUAL VITALITY. [2]

Prompt:STANFORD STUDENTS POSSESS AN INTELLECTUAL VITALITY. REFLECT ON AN IDEA OR EXPERIENCE THAT HAS BEEN IMPORTANT TO YOUR INTELLECTUAL DEVELOPMENT

Everything started with my attendance to science club. In the club, students could attend three different braches: math, biology and physics. Before I heard that, I was planning to attend computer science branch, physics or math. I was into physics and math but in the school, those braches were poorly supported. At the end of the process I ended up with biology.

At the beginning, I thought I would give up to study because biology didn't require any intelligence. As I learned genetics, animal physiology, plant physiology and other topics, I realized I was wrong because genetics required math skills; animal physiology, and plan physiology required intelligence, in order to understand how an organism lives. The more learned, the more my horizons broadened because it wasn't just biology I learned but the whole world. As I learned more, I became realization of how countries, social relations between people and so forth work and realized how they were similar with how living organisms live. If there were a problem in one of organs in an organism, everything would get affected.

As I became sophomore at my high school, I elected as president of science club. After that point, my responsibility was not just to study but also help other members in academic and social ways. It was a milestone for me. In three-year period, science club, presidency and responsibilities provided me to cover a lot of ground because the club administration and I made a lot of innovations for current members and next generation members. Throughout in my high school career, all I have done by now have been a great experience for me and I can never deny that biology and presidency have an enormous effect on my life and my intellectual knowledge.

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Undergraduate / My father gifted me a computer; Cornell/My ideas and interests [5]

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Prompt: Tell us about an engineering idea you have, or about your interest in engineering. Describe how your ideas and interests may be realized by - and linked to -ï€ specific resources within the College of Engineering. Finally, explain what a Cornell Engineering education will enable you to accomplish.

My interest in engineering was sparked with a computer my father bought as a present to me in 1998. The computer had 128MB RAM, Intel Pentium III processor and Windows 98 operating system. In the first week, the computer was the victim of my curiosity. At the time, one of my friends at the preschool had told me little green men worked inside computers. Even though I did not believe him, curiosity led me to open up the computer's case and disassembled the computer. However hard I looked, I could not locate the promised little green men. Instead, I found an intricate jumble of colorful wires and weird green boards. I was delighted for having such an interesting toy. However, I had to reassemble all the parts because I had the strange feeling that my father would not want to see the new computer in pieces. But, despite all efforts to put back the pieces, I could not get the computer to work again. When my father saw the computer in pieces, I thought he would get angry, but surprisingly he didn't. He told me "Son, I love that you are curios but next time you open up it, you're going to tell me." It was such a relief for me because I did not expect such a response. In retrospect, I realize this was the first step that led to a future in engineering.

As I grew up, I became increasingly aware of my role in this world. Who was I and what was I to become? I realized that if I studied abroad, I could receive a better education with which I could excel in whatever I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I would also acquire a unique viewpoint on events and problems by looking at them from the perspective of different cultures. When I finally arrived abroad to my new school, my college counselor told me to research universities that best represented my personality. As I started my search, I contemplated on an answer to whom I was. During my research, I saw a motto: "Any person... Any study..." It was what Ezra Cornell envisioned-so did I. The more I researched about Cornell College of Engineering, the more I became interested. Then, I had a chance to visit campus and saw the countless opportunities in every area: academic, social and so forth. I visited Phillips Hall, Thurston Hall, Lester B. Knight Jr. Laboratory and Carpenter Hall. Each of them offers different opportunities; however all have one main aim: to raise well-rounded engineers that could exceed in the social arena as well as in engineering.

While conducting my research, I learned about international engineering internship programs, research and service opportunities, leadership development and countless other opportunities at Cornell University. One thing that I learned which really affected me deeply is that students at Cornell move beyond the particular area of academics that they want to excel in. This is extraordinary because students are allowed to follow their curiosity and choose what they want to learn instead of being bottled up in their area of expertise. I believe that the concerns of an engineer should transcend that of engineering to encompass global problems. Otherwise, How could an engineer be expected to work towards a more sustainable world?

Throughout my research I discovered one simple but crucial fact: Cornell offers all that a well-rounded engineer could need and want. What prompted me to choose Cornell is that it is unparalleled in the opportunities that it provides to its students in discovering their area of expertise, the world and above all, themselves. Cornell University's all resources are going to give me opportunities to accomplish not being just an engineer but well-rounded adult.

Undergraduate / '.. enough of an artist' - Stanford- What matters to you and why? [2]

Imagination is the most precious thing I have because without imagining, exploration in any meaning would be impossible. When I was freshman in high school, I became increasingly aware of my role in this world. Who was I and what was I to become? I started to read books and journals from newspaper in Turkey because throughout my life, I had experienced what education system in where I was born taught and had understood that education system in Turkey pushed students to learn pure knowledge-only formulas and knowledge a student needs in an exam- without thinking. When I was reading a book about Einstein's biography, I came across with a quotation from Albert Einstein: I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. It affected me deeply because I had just started my journey to myself. For a while, I studied science really hard because I thought science was open to imagine. After a while, I started to read a book called The Alchemist. It opened my understanding to world more that ever and I started to try to journey within myself- As the book said. After all, I understood Imagination was not to dream something depended on what you wanted but to create an ideal world within your knowledge and to journey in it and then to try to make your world possible like Einstein did with his Relativity Theory.

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