An itellectually engaging experience ("I was highly imaginative")

Stanford students are widely known to possess a sense of intellectual vitality. Tell us about an idea or an experience that you find intellectually engaging.

Ever since I was a young girl I was highly imaginative. I loved to read, and found myself reading books almost ten times just out my own personal pleasure. I found a place where anything could happen, without a rhyme or reason at all, and it is from literature that I found my passion for the sciences.

Science explains to us how things are the way that they are in the world, with a set list of rules and limits to how things act and react. But just because a theory is widely accepted, does not mean that it can not be altered or changed in some fashion to provide new and interesting results.

Scientists do not just sit there and absorb what is being told to them. It is processed, tested and retested to prove or disprove the variety of wonders in the world. They answer the question of possibilities.

There are just so many questions out there that remain unanswered, and that is the place of other worldliness, where creativity and observation join together. Science is an open door leading into a hallway with thousands of other doors, some of them opened, and some never even touched.

It is here were I find myself at the peak of happiness, wandering and searching for the next closed door and finding just the right key to open it. It is not entirely what is behind the door that results in my satisfaction, but the process of going though many different steps and processes leading up to it.

Call me crazy if you wish, but this is what keeps me in the constant pursuit of new ideas that may someday change the world. Many people think that genius is the fine line between knowledge and insanity, I think it is between knowledge and imagination.

i thought the prompt meant actually telling an event that you participated in. so if you like science a lot then maybe you can describe something that happened or something you did to pursue your interest.

This is really awkwardly phrased. Tried to fix it somewhat.


A couple of other awkward phrases, but you're off to a good start. Try reading it aloud and finding what sounds bad. Also, you use the word "just" a lot when it's not necessary. A personal quirk, I suppose.

Don't waste words telling the reader obvious things.

It is here where I find ...

You write so well!! But I want to tell you... this stuff has to be cut:
Ever since I was a young girl I was highly imaginative. I loved to read, and found myself ... It's all sort of common and unimpressive... the impressive thing is to articulate a single concept (i.e. idea) clearly... explain an idea at the start, and let the reader feel sure of what you are writing about. For a short essay, you need to get right to the point!! So.. to be honest, this needs to be rewritten, but I have confidence in your excellent writing style. So, enjoy it!!

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