Describe your academic interests and how you plan to pursue them at USC. Please feel free to address your first- and second-choice major selections.
This is how it feels to skip through time. This is what evolution looks like: a small bowl of gleaming zinc trees. In an industrial sized oven, we had placed a bowl of zinc powder, topped by a layer of gold plated silicon. At 800 degrees Celsius, the gold plating had melted and, incredibly, the zinc had coalesced into a metal forest. Each tree's branches were brilliant and nano-thin. As minuscule as they were, they revealed a world of unimaginable depth--a world of creation, discovery, and possibility. That is what I like the most about science. Far from static, it is a field for exploration; there was a sense of adventure behind discovering the mysteries of the natural world. Just as I am drawn to the sciences for their offerings of adventure, I am drawn to USC for its potential to be explored. What I want most in pursuing my interests is the ability to do just that: pursue-- to continue to investigate that which interests and inspires me, while immersed in an environment that supplies me with the tools to do so. I want to be in a place where I am encouraged to explore and broaden my interests, be it in my academic tier of science or more personal diversions of singing and film. I desire an unrestricted education with the opportunities to pursue my interests and adventures--one I could get from USC.
To clarify, the beginning part is about a research internship at UCLA that i described previously in the application.
Please give suggestions and comments. I think the last sentence needs a bit of work. Any specific suggestions on how to end it?
Thank you!
This is how it feels to skip through time. This is what evolution looks like: a small bowl of gleaming zinc trees. In an industrial sized oven, we had placed a bowl of zinc powder, topped by a layer of gold plated silicon. At 800 degrees Celsius, the gold plating had melted and, incredibly, the zinc had coalesced into a metal forest. Each tree's branches were brilliant and nano-thin. As minuscule as they were, they revealed a world of unimaginable depth--a world of creation, discovery, and possibility. That is what I like the most about science. Far from static, it is a field for exploration; there was a sense of adventure behind discovering the mysteries of the natural world. Just as I am drawn to the sciences for their offerings of adventure, I am drawn to USC for its potential to be explored. What I want most in pursuing my interests is the ability to do just that: pursue-- to continue to investigate that which interests and inspires me, while immersed in an environment that supplies me with the tools to do so. I want to be in a place where I am encouraged to explore and broaden my interests, be it in my academic tier of science or more personal diversions of singing and film. I desire an unrestricted education with the opportunities to pursue my interests and adventures--one I could get from USC.
To clarify, the beginning part is about a research internship at UCLA that i described previously in the application.
Please give suggestions and comments. I think the last sentence needs a bit of work. Any specific suggestions on how to end it?
Thank you!
