helloloaf
Dec 1, 2010
Undergraduate / "personal diversions of singing and film" - USC short answer - academic interest [3]
Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
This is how it feels to skip through time. This is what evolution looks like: a small bowl of gleaming zinc trees. In an industrial sized oven, we had placed a bowl of zinc powder, topped by a layer of gold plated silicon. At 800 degrees Celsius, the gold plating had melted and, incredibly, the zinc had coalesced into a metal forest. Each tree's branches were brilliant and nano-thin. As minuscule as they were, they revealed a world of unimaginable depth--a world of creation, discovery, and possibility. That is what I like the most about science. Far from static, it is a field for exploration; there was a sense of adventure behind discovering the mysteries of the natural world. Just as I am drawn to the sciences for their offerings of adventure, I am drawn to USC for its potential to be explored. What I want most in pursuing my interests is the ability to do just that: pursue-- to continue to investigate that which interests and inspires me, while immersed in an environment that supplies me with the tools to do so. I want to be in a place where I am encouraged to explore and broaden my interests, be it in my academic tier of science or more personal diversions of singing and film. I desire an unrestricted education with the opportunities to pursue my interests and adventures--one I could get from USC.
To clarify, the beginning part is about a research internship at UCLA that i described previously in the application.
Please give suggestions and comments. I think the last sentence needs a bit of work. Any specific suggestions on how to end it?
Thank you!
Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
This is how it feels to skip through time. This is what evolution looks like: a small bowl of gleaming zinc trees. In an industrial sized oven, we had placed a bowl of zinc powder, topped by a layer of gold plated silicon. At 800 degrees Celsius, the gold plating had melted and, incredibly, the zinc had coalesced into a metal forest. Each tree's branches were brilliant and nano-thin. As minuscule as they were, they revealed a world of unimaginable depth--a world of creation, discovery, and possibility. That is what I like the most about science. Far from static, it is a field for exploration; there was a sense of adventure behind discovering the mysteries of the natural world. Just as I am drawn to the sciences for their offerings of adventure, I am drawn to USC for its potential to be explored. What I want most in pursuing my interests is the ability to do just that: pursue-- to continue to investigate that which interests and inspires me, while immersed in an environment that supplies me with the tools to do so. I want to be in a place where I am encouraged to explore and broaden my interests, be it in my academic tier of science or more personal diversions of singing and film. I desire an unrestricted education with the opportunities to pursue my interests and adventures--one I could get from USC.
To clarify, the beginning part is about a research internship at UCLA that i described previously in the application.
Please give suggestions and comments. I think the last sentence needs a bit of work. Any specific suggestions on how to end it?
Thank you!
