cpme1997
Dec 31, 2014
Undergraduate / C for commitment (Lehigh University-if your name were an acronym) [5]
Prompt: If your name were an acronym, what would it stand for and how would it reflect your strengths and abilities.
I am Pun Yik Sai on the dotted line. I am Pansy at school simply because it sounds just the same as my Chinese name in Mandarin. But only people close to me know, Cindy is the name engraved in me: it has chosen me on my first English lesson. And when my family call me Cindy, I can always sense something different behind.
The C stands for 'commitment'.
My father is a self-employed mechanical engineer. I never knew how to cope with my playmates' jealousy when I told them about my father's occupation, as the stable, decent pay and high socioeconomic status were largely imagination. Mum told me dad was the top notch in the field he specialized in-I had no doubt on that, but could not help wondering why I constantly receive warning about delayed school fee payment, why I never got pocket money like everybody else. When I get older, the answer eventually loomed on the Economics lesson. My father's assiduous designing is but a section of the entire procedure, a factor of production, so are the fine raw material and tools, so are the two loyal workers. They are the premium ingredients lying still without a cook to turn them into superb delicacy; the exquisite stage props idling without a magician to turn them into standing ovation. And the magician, the quintessence, the soul, is called entrepreneurship.
My commitment to realize the dream my father dreamed, had driven me to embark on the two most challenging electives-Economics and Business, Accounting and Financial Studies and rank the first in form on them at most time, and to run a booth in Mong Kok Flower Market-the greatest event Chinese New Year in Hong Kong with several classmates and alumni. Although there was only around HKD20,000 profit in the end, it was a cheerful and encouraging start of my business career.
And now it leads me to Lehigh.
Thanks in advance :)
Prompt: If your name were an acronym, what would it stand for and how would it reflect your strengths and abilities.
I am Pun Yik Sai on the dotted line. I am Pansy at school simply because it sounds just the same as my Chinese name in Mandarin. But only people close to me know, Cindy is the name engraved in me: it has chosen me on my first English lesson. And when my family call me Cindy, I can always sense something different behind.
The C stands for 'commitment'.
My father is a self-employed mechanical engineer. I never knew how to cope with my playmates' jealousy when I told them about my father's occupation, as the stable, decent pay and high socioeconomic status were largely imagination. Mum told me dad was the top notch in the field he specialized in-I had no doubt on that, but could not help wondering why I constantly receive warning about delayed school fee payment, why I never got pocket money like everybody else. When I get older, the answer eventually loomed on the Economics lesson. My father's assiduous designing is but a section of the entire procedure, a factor of production, so are the fine raw material and tools, so are the two loyal workers. They are the premium ingredients lying still without a cook to turn them into superb delicacy; the exquisite stage props idling without a magician to turn them into standing ovation. And the magician, the quintessence, the soul, is called entrepreneurship.
My commitment to realize the dream my father dreamed, had driven me to embark on the two most challenging electives-Economics and Business, Accounting and Financial Studies and rank the first in form on them at most time, and to run a booth in Mong Kok Flower Market-the greatest event Chinese New Year in Hong Kong with several classmates and alumni. Although there was only around HKD20,000 profit in the end, it was a cheerful and encouraging start of my business career.
And now it leads me to Lehigh.
Thanks in advance :)
