Hi, everyone, this is my essay for Brown and although it is second draft(I've already overthrown one) I could use your help!!If there is any problem please just tell me! I wanna go to Brown so bad!!Thank you so much!!
The prompt is: French novelist Anatole France wrote: "An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't." What don't you know?
Twenty-six letters, a to z, are simple and clear but the vocabulary they could form are infinite and myriad, the language they build has been evolving centery after centery, and they just convey us one concept, possibility. The learning of English is similar to hiking in mountainous regions: every time you climb a mountain another one is always behind. I have started learning English since primary school and yet I may only understand a small part of it after so long a time. Nevertheless, those that I don't know are sources to my persuit to know more.
When I was 14 years old, a long poem called Paradise Lost thourougly captivated me. At that time I only recognised few words like 'angel' and 'heaven' but to grasp a child's curiosity they were indeed sufficient. I supposed it might be a splendid and bravura fiction and thus in order to comprehend this poem I started to clumsily read it word by word with a dictionary aside and touch literal works in preparation, which sounds quite insane to a 14-year-old, though. After all, it was not surprise that time proved my effort mostly in vain and even now, after the ordeal of SAT I am still unable to understand this 'ancient' epic completely by myself. However, the result no longer matters, for I've known more than I intended to. I've become the first one in my peers to finish Shakespear's masterpieces and in turn because of a profound understanding of nuance of different words, in Senior 2 I've joined a chinesization team of a famous BBS, NETSHOW. We are in fact amateurs in English but dreamers who have passion for what we are doing and we volunteer to introduce great English games to domestic game players. I've worked on several tasks like Fall Out 3 and I really enjoy our hot discussion on MSN: sometimes a few minutes are spent only to perfect one sentence. It is said that education is to differentiate what you do know and what you don't and I've felt exactly the same during those days when I translated English into Chinese. They helped me clarify similar words, deal with the mess in my head and compel me to learn more. In short, this job is like a box of chocolete and one will never know what he is going to get. As for me, I enjoy its unprediction and I'll always prepare myself for it.
All in all, I've realized that academics retain endless enigma and they play a role as the impulse of every step forward. I've learnt so much and yet so little, so I will stick to my pace and enjoy those those unkown mysteries side with pleasant surprises along my way.
I don't know whether my content suits the prompt...I feel like it's hard to write something beyond abstract platitude....What do you think?
