milan1
Dec 31, 2015
Undergraduate / 3 days long international mathematical event - essay about my extracurricular activities/ experience [4]
This is my revised draft.
My deadline is tomorrow
Please provide feedback and make any necessary grammatical and contextual corrections.
Thanks in advance.
As a high school student, I received an opportunity to participate in an international mathematical contest. I was also given privilege to lead my team which consisted of 3 members- each of them intelligent, determined but never had been to any competitions. That was a new experience and a new obligation to me because I was leading the team for the very first time in my life- a chance for me to prove myself a capable leader.
In the competition, we were given sets of challenging, tricky and brainy mathematical puzzles and our job was to solve them in limited time. As the time started, our heart beat paced. Thousands of ideas stroked in our minds but not the one which would solve the puzzles. I was frozen. The sound of moving clock(tic-tac) echoed through my mind as our only chance at international competition was coming to an end. I looked at the desperate faces of my partners- no any signs of joy. With a position of power comes responsibility and being the leader, I knew I had to do something, stand strong and determined. I reminded my friends that we had to stay focused, add a bit of load in our mind as trying is worth sitting idle. Then we started solving and luckily found a solution of a problem quickly. It gave us millions of hopes and motivations. Then we gave our best to remaining problems and finally solved most of them. The hard work and team spirit finally paid off and our team was able to bag silver accolade- my major achievement as a leader
This is my revised draft.
My deadline is tomorrow
Please provide feedback and make any necessary grammatical and contextual corrections.
Thanks in advance.
As a high school student, I received an opportunity to participate in an international mathematical contest. I was also given privilege to lead my team which consisted of 3 members- each of them intelligent, determined but never had been to any competitions. That was a new experience and a new obligation to me because I was leading the team for the very first time in my life- a chance for me to prove myself a capable leader.
In the competition, we were given sets of challenging, tricky and brainy mathematical puzzles and our job was to solve them in limited time. As the time started, our heart beat paced. Thousands of ideas stroked in our minds but not the one which would solve the puzzles. I was frozen. The sound of moving clock(tic-tac) echoed through my mind as our only chance at international competition was coming to an end. I looked at the desperate faces of my partners- no any signs of joy. With a position of power comes responsibility and being the leader, I knew I had to do something, stand strong and determined. I reminded my friends that we had to stay focused, add a bit of load in our mind as trying is worth sitting idle. Then we started solving and luckily found a solution of a problem quickly. It gave us millions of hopes and motivations. Then we gave our best to remaining problems and finally solved most of them. The hard work and team spirit finally paid off and our team was able to bag silver accolade- my major achievement as a leader
