Scholarship / Being an urban researcher will always be my lifelong passion; Special reasons [4]

To me, choosing a graduate school always plays a significant role in long-term career development. Therefore, my decision to choose X University depends crucially on three factors: my research interests, the considerable prestige of X University through academic courses and close connections between my interests and those courses.

My childhood dream was to be a scientist. When I enrolled on Ho Chi Minh University of Architecture, my passion for urban planning has been truly inspired through the cooperation with German researchers from University of Y. They taught me research methodologies for systematic in-depth analysis of urban problems that I could not learn in my home country. Accordingly, I have gradually realised that my ultimate goal is now to study abroad.

With that goal in mind, I choose Z programme at X University. With seminar-style lectures combined with hands-on practical professor's experience, the self-directed curriculum of this programme would allow me to customise to fit my academic interests in urban planning. Furthermore, studying at X University, which is one of the best technical universities in Germany, would give me invaluable opportunities to collaborate with leading experts in urban planning. That would not only benefit my academic research but also my future career.

In short, being an urban researcher will always be my lifelong passion. First and foremost, I strongly believe that X University would be one of the most appropriate universities for me to fire that passion with great enthusiasm. (248 words)

Writing Feedback / IELTS 2: Too much exercise is bad for one's health [4]

TOPIC: Too much exercise is bad for one's health. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your own knowledge and experience.

Growing concern is now expressed over that having heavy training adversely affects people's health. To be more precise, it has been claimed that people who train seven days a week, especially athletes, usually have a tendency to have aches and pains of muscles. In this essay, we will discuss these issues in great detail.

Initially, the athletes suffer from muscle tension when sporting events are coming. It can be generally accepted that having to practice every day, most athletes do not have good control over their exercise, which does usually cause them to get into bad health. One further piece of evidence is that people have a tendency to practice beyond their capacity when international sporting events such as Olympics are near, and not in every case do their heavy training give them a good result but most of time, it is the other way round.

Furthermore, there is no doubt that having too much exercise in short time causes adverse consequences for one's health in the long run. In fact, there still remains other factors that may have impacts on individual's health in his or her life, namely their bad habits and family's tensions. It is as well a fact that there are a good few athletes overcoming obstacles in their training process. In 2004, a piece of research of welfare organization revealed that approximately 25 percent of athletes participated in Olympic games had had serious injuries before the international event begun.

To put it in a nutshell, people having heavy training fail to be able to bring a good few benefits as their expectations; conversely, it may cause inevitable consequences for their health in the long run. I strongly recommend that people, especially athletes, should have a logical scheme which would release them from tremendous pressure in their training process.