Hi everyone! Please take a look at my supplemental essays for Conncoll. I really appreciate comments about grammar and word choice. Thank you all a lot.
1. What, in particular, influences your desire to attend Connecticut College?
Every hour, there are sixty minutes but each of those minutes is unique. Time is irreversible. And since I disbelieve in the next life, "to experience as much as possible" has become my lifetime purpose.
Throughout my seventeen years of life, I have seen a lot, felt a lot, and loved a lot. From the immense fields with carefree buffaloes to the grassy hills with nonchalant hawks, everything is beautiful and that beauty has motivated me to go out into the world. I want to see more, to feel more and to love more. So I desire to attend Connecticut College!
I have once sat on the bank of a pond, immersing my feet in the water while passionately discussing with my friends about the world economics. And now, I dream of the endless converstions at Concoll's Coffee Grounds with tasty drinks and sweet melodies. I have once wandered all around a submerged field with my classmates a summer noon, catching frogs for our following day's biology lesson. And today, I imagine myself at the new State-of-the-art Science Center, eagerly exploring the usage of an eye-catching equipment.
Everything at Conncoll, from the helpful MOBROC to the life-changing internships, promises me new lessons which are completely different for all what I have learnt before. I cannot wait to join a class discussion, where the 9:1 student-faculty ratio would acquaint me with each of my classmates' stories. And I am eager to learn how surprising it is, dropping by the Sprout weekly and finding out the leaves on my plants has become greener and bigger.
I want to go to Connecticut College so that someday, when the last moment of my life comes, I can proudly tell it: I have lived all my life.
2. Tell us about your favorite place and why it holds special meaning to you. It can be close to home or on another continent, your kitchen or a mountaintop.
* Explanation:
+ Ban chung is a traditional Vietnamese rice cake which is made from glutinous rice, mug bean, pork and other ingredients.
+ Tet holiday is the Vietnamese New Year holiday (in lunar calendar).
When I am writing this essay, Tet is coming and the spring winds are starting to draw in my mind the incredible beauty of those square rice cakes. As an unchangeable truth, I love wrapping banh chungs and I love the boiling process, during the twelve hours of which I would be attached to my little garden corner.
Regularly putting firewood into the fire has every reason to be called a dull task. But to me, in that tiny space, my day is not simply engaged with a boring job. In the morning, I am never off-duty, having to maintain and start the fire over and over again, feeling smoke stinging my eyes and heat burning my vulnerable face. In the afternoon, the fire gets stronger and I would have a warm, enjoy my books while inattentionally hearing my mom reminding me not to let the cakes overdone. And at night, I find it interesting putting everything I can into the fire, expecting an unexpected reaction.
Inside my heart, that messy garden corner is not trees, flowers nor garden-stuff. It is also not fresh air or lovely faint winds. It is the unforgetable atmosphere of my every Tet holiday. It is something that cannot be mixed up with anything else. Something flows in every blood vessels of my body - the Vietnamese tradition!
Not only in the big cities, but also right in my place nowadays, when I ask, my friends are no longer able to tell me their special knowledge about how to make a banh chung. I am aware that it is a decided trend. But personally, I promise my "prospective children" that in the future, they would still have a garden corner to describe in their college essays.
1. What, in particular, influences your desire to attend Connecticut College?
Every hour, there are sixty minutes but each of those minutes is unique. Time is irreversible. And since I disbelieve in the next life, "to experience as much as possible" has become my lifetime purpose.
Throughout my seventeen years of life, I have seen a lot, felt a lot, and loved a lot. From the immense fields with carefree buffaloes to the grassy hills with nonchalant hawks, everything is beautiful and that beauty has motivated me to go out into the world. I want to see more, to feel more and to love more. So I desire to attend Connecticut College!
I have once sat on the bank of a pond, immersing my feet in the water while passionately discussing with my friends about the world economics. And now, I dream of the endless converstions at Concoll's Coffee Grounds with tasty drinks and sweet melodies. I have once wandered all around a submerged field with my classmates a summer noon, catching frogs for our following day's biology lesson. And today, I imagine myself at the new State-of-the-art Science Center, eagerly exploring the usage of an eye-catching equipment.
Everything at Conncoll, from the helpful MOBROC to the life-changing internships, promises me new lessons which are completely different for all what I have learnt before. I cannot wait to join a class discussion, where the 9:1 student-faculty ratio would acquaint me with each of my classmates' stories. And I am eager to learn how surprising it is, dropping by the Sprout weekly and finding out the leaves on my plants has become greener and bigger.
I want to go to Connecticut College so that someday, when the last moment of my life comes, I can proudly tell it: I have lived all my life.
2. Tell us about your favorite place and why it holds special meaning to you. It can be close to home or on another continent, your kitchen or a mountaintop.
* Explanation:
+ Ban chung is a traditional Vietnamese rice cake which is made from glutinous rice, mug bean, pork and other ingredients.
+ Tet holiday is the Vietnamese New Year holiday (in lunar calendar).
When I am writing this essay, Tet is coming and the spring winds are starting to draw in my mind the incredible beauty of those square rice cakes. As an unchangeable truth, I love wrapping banh chungs and I love the boiling process, during the twelve hours of which I would be attached to my little garden corner.
Regularly putting firewood into the fire has every reason to be called a dull task. But to me, in that tiny space, my day is not simply engaged with a boring job. In the morning, I am never off-duty, having to maintain and start the fire over and over again, feeling smoke stinging my eyes and heat burning my vulnerable face. In the afternoon, the fire gets stronger and I would have a warm, enjoy my books while inattentionally hearing my mom reminding me not to let the cakes overdone. And at night, I find it interesting putting everything I can into the fire, expecting an unexpected reaction.
Inside my heart, that messy garden corner is not trees, flowers nor garden-stuff. It is also not fresh air or lovely faint winds. It is the unforgetable atmosphere of my every Tet holiday. It is something that cannot be mixed up with anything else. Something flows in every blood vessels of my body - the Vietnamese tradition!
Not only in the big cities, but also right in my place nowadays, when I ask, my friends are no longer able to tell me their special knowledge about how to make a banh chung. I am aware that it is a decided trend. But personally, I promise my "prospective children" that in the future, they would still have a garden corner to describe in their college essays.