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Stanford students possess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development.
The natural response to "What is the difference between a raw egg and a cooked egg?" should be mundane comments about the variation in taste and texture. But I say that the fundamental difference is that a cooked egg will never, ever hatch.
As an inquisitive kindergartener, I felt strongly about justifying my understanding of the book "The Ugly Duckling" through hatching my own eggs. So, with a baby-blanket, a carton of eggs from my fridge, I began my seemingly flawless plan. When the chicks didn't come out after three weeks, I blamed my baby-blanket for not being warm enough. Only after I ended up with hard boiled eggs did I realize that my chicks were gone for good.
Over the years, I concluded that there something inherently wrong with my hatching abilities. It wasn't until I learned about meiosis and reproduction in grade 11 biology that I understood the science behind hatching chickens. An egg, completed with its own air compartment and food supply, can turn into a fully functioning-and insanely adorable- organism just twenty-one days after fertilization. Furthermore, I have been especially curious about the way biological structures grow, astonished by the level of detail in the natural design of these organisms. To my defense however, I did reacted with a sassy "and-now-you-tell-me that" glare when I found out that grocery-store eggs were never fertilized.
Just as my lack of scientific knowledge led to the failure of my hatching projects, the true purpose of education is to equip students with knowledge and the ability to apply it to various areas of life. Like the chicken-egg paradox, knowledge cannot be fruitful unless it is fertilized by passion and curiosity, a student's innate urge to learn. Likewise, curiosity is also useless without knowledge; they coexist. Therefore, I want to go to go to college to allow my intellectual curiosity to guide my learning.
In the end, I my egg never hatched. But why dwell on that? These days, I have moved on to growing mushrooms under my kitchen sink.
Stanford students possess an intellectual vitality. Reflect on an idea or experience that has been important to your intellectual development.
The natural response to "What is the difference between a raw egg and a cooked egg?" should be mundane comments about the variation in taste and texture. But I say that the fundamental difference is that a cooked egg will never, ever hatch.
As an inquisitive kindergartener, I felt strongly about justifying my understanding of the book "The Ugly Duckling" through hatching my own eggs. So, with a baby-blanket, a carton of eggs from my fridge, I began my seemingly flawless plan. When the chicks didn't come out after three weeks, I blamed my baby-blanket for not being warm enough. Only after I ended up with hard boiled eggs did I realize that my chicks were gone for good.
Over the years, I concluded that there something inherently wrong with my hatching abilities. It wasn't until I learned about meiosis and reproduction in grade 11 biology that I understood the science behind hatching chickens. An egg, completed with its own air compartment and food supply, can turn into a fully functioning-and insanely adorable- organism just twenty-one days after fertilization. Furthermore, I have been especially curious about the way biological structures grow, astonished by the level of detail in the natural design of these organisms. To my defense however, I did reacted with a sassy "and-now-you-tell-me that" glare when I found out that grocery-store eggs were never fertilized.
Just as my lack of scientific knowledge led to the failure of my hatching projects, the true purpose of education is to equip students with knowledge and the ability to apply it to various areas of life. Like the chicken-egg paradox, knowledge cannot be fruitful unless it is fertilized by passion and curiosity, a student's innate urge to learn. Likewise, curiosity is also useless without knowledge; they coexist. Therefore, I want to go to go to college to allow my intellectual curiosity to guide my learning.
In the end, I my egg never hatched. But why dwell on that? These days, I have moved on to growing mushrooms under my kitchen sink.
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