Princeton Supplement---my teacher

Does anyone know which topic this can come under?? Significant person or Experience that changed me?? Please suggest any other quote if you can..Too simple??Generic??

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.-- Georg Christoph Lichtenber

Does it fit either of the prompts??

'So, can you guys solve this problem?' asked the new physics teacher, Sudheer. Someone in the class said, 'Of course...easily', as this was on Friction- a topic we had completed. He started right off with the tricky topic of dealing with multiple blocks placed on each other vertically and asked us to solve a problem. We had all solved a similar problem but we could not solve this one. It was then that we realized that he had tweaked it a bit. This changed the problem in a major way and we could not solve it because an extra factor had come in which we did not know how to account for. But we could not do it. We all got the wrong answer. So, he proceeded to give us the solution. Rather, he asked us about twenty or so questions about the problem most of which we weren't able to answer. By then, time was over and he left the class. We all mutually agreed the new guy was 'crazy' and that we would all be mad by the time he would be done with us.

2 months later-

Turns out we all were wrong. We were all addicted to physics now courtesy our sir. Earlier, physics for me meant learning a new concept and its formulas and then mix and match formulas for solving problems. Predictably, I used to get more problems wrong then right. The course in our state did not really have any practical work. So, we did problem-solving most of the time. I hated physics because it took an awful lot of time to solve problems and all of them were complicated. Sudheer sir gave me the right guidance. He taught physics by asking questions. He would give the outline of the topic and then ask us questions that would take us deeper into it. This way, we had a better idea of what we were dealing with and did not face 'blackouts' while solving problems. This approach cleared out our doubts at the initial stage itself and solving problems became much easier we were no longer did 'mix-n-match' but understood the actual physics going on. I was able to solve very complex problems using this approach and developed solid concepts. This way of learning changed my approach to science and math and caused me to go deeper into each subject.

Is Sudheer your teacher's last name? You might want to say Mr. Sudheer, or whatever his last name was.


You're a bit vague in this part. Just say what he changed, what the extra factor was, don't try to write around it.


I think you mean to say that he didn't give you the solution.


what does this mean?


It's a nice essay, but it is a little bit generic. Maybe bring in some more description of your "crazy" teacher and talk about how your view of him changed at the end of the essay?