Describe an intellectually engaging experience.
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Last year, I was called into the assistant principal's office. On my way there, my palms began to sweat, "am I in trouble?" I thought to myself. To my surprise, I was welcomed with a sunny smile, which greatly relieved my stress. The assistant principal wanted me to translate for a student who recently moved to the United States from Taiwan. I thought it would be easy, but the task turned out to be much more difficult than I had expected.
On top of translating for administrative purposes, I also had to translate class curriculums and assignments to him. I was very afraid at first because many terms in English do not have direct translations into Mandarin Chinese, so I had to link many seemingly unrelated Chinese words together in order to explain difficult topics like the Holocaust.
This experience was very intellectually engaging in that I was not only required to used my previous knowledge in the language of Chinese, but I also applied other knowledge I have learned in school to improve my explanations. For example, in order to explain the Holocaust, I had to teach him about World War II, Hitler, and Russia. Without learning all that before, I would not have been able to provide a sufficient explanation; I might just confuse him even more.
This experience made me realize the importance of education. By devoting effort in school, I will not only achieve personal academic success, but also be able to help those people in need. This encouraged me to focus during class and pay more attention to seemingly unimportant matters, because I know that they may someday come into great importance.
Limit=1800 characters
THANKS A LOT !!
Last year, I was called into the assistant principal's office. On my way there, my palms began to sweat, "am I in trouble?" I thought to myself. To my surprise, I was welcomed with a sunny smile, which greatly relieved my stress. The assistant principal wanted me to translate for a student who recently moved to the United States from Taiwan. I thought it would be easy, but the task turned out to be much more difficult than I had expected.
On top of translating for administrative purposes, I also had to translate class curriculums and assignments to him. I was very afraid at first because many terms in English do not have direct translations into Mandarin Chinese, so I had to link many seemingly unrelated Chinese words together in order to explain difficult topics like the Holocaust.
This experience was very intellectually engaging in that I was not only required to used my previous knowledge in the language of Chinese, but I also applied other knowledge I have learned in school to improve my explanations. For example, in order to explain the Holocaust, I had to teach him about World War II, Hitler, and Russia. Without learning all that before, I would not have been able to provide a sufficient explanation; I might just confuse him even more.
This experience made me realize the importance of education. By devoting effort in school, I will not only achieve personal academic success, but also be able to help those people in need. This encouraged me to focus during class and pay more attention to seemingly unimportant matters, because I know that they may someday come into great importance.
