哈佛校报公布2021哈佛录取er的十篇优秀文书,中国申请者写了什么主题?Part 3
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哈佛校报公布2021哈佛录取er的十篇优秀文书,中国申请者写了什么主题?Part 3
The best compliment I ever received was from my little brother: “My science teacher’s unbelievably good at telling stories,” he announced. “Nearly as good as you.” I thought about that, how I savor a good story the way some people savor last-minute touchdowns.
I learned in biology that I’m composed of 7 × 10 27 atoms, but that number didn’t mean anything to me until I read Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything. One sentence stayed with me for weeks: “Every atom you possess has almost certainly passed through several stars and been part of millions of organisms on its way to becoming you.” It estimates that each human has about 2 billion atoms of Shakespeare hanging around inside—quite a comfort, as I try to write this essay. I thought about every one of my atoms, wondering where they had been and what miracles they had witnessed.
My physical body is a string of atoms, but what of my inner self, my soul, my essence? I’ve come to the realization that my life has been a string as well, a string of stories. Every one of us is made of star stuff, forged through fires, and emerging as nicked as the surface of the moon. It frustrated me no end that I couldn’t sit down with all the people I met, interrogating them about their lives, identifying every last story that made them who they are.
I remember how magical it was the first time I read a fiction book: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone. I was duly impressed with Quidditch and the Invisibility Cloak, of course, but I was absolutely spellbound by how much I could learn about Harry. The kippers he had for breakfast, the supplies he bought for Potions—the details everyone skimmed over were remarkable to me. Fiction was a revelation. Here, at last, was a window into another person’s string of stories!
Over the years, I’ve thought long and hard about that immortal question: What superpower would you choose? I considered the usual suspects—invisibility, superhuman strength, flying—but threw them out immediately. My superhero alter ego would be Story Girl. She wouldn’t run marathons, but she could walk for miles and miles in other people’s shoes. She’d know that all it takes for empathy and understanding is the right story.
Imagine my astonishment when I discovered Radiolab on NPR. Here was my imaginary superpower, embodied in real life! I had been struggling with AP Biology, seeing it as a class full of complicated processes and alien vocabulary. That changed radically when I listened, enthralled, as Radiolab traced the effects of dopamine on love and gambling. This was science, sure, but it was science as I’d never heard it before. It contained conflict and emotion and a narrative; it made me anxious to learn more. It wasn’t that I was obtuse for biology; I just hadn’t found the stories in it before.
I’m convinced that you can learn anything in the form of a story. The layperson often writes off concepts—entropy, the Maginot Line, anapestic meter—as too foreign to comprehend. But with the right framing, the world suddenly becomes an open book, enticing and ripe for exploration. I want to become a writer to find those stories, much like Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich from Radiolab, making intimidating subjects become familiar and inviting for everyone. I want to become Story Girl.
Carrie在开始她的文章时,想起了她哥哥的一句深情的赞美,介绍了她最热情的努力:讲故事。通过回忆与她对故事的热爱有关的轶事,她确立了自己是一个非常好奇和富有创造力的人;一个最大的美德是对知识的无限渴望的人。大学非常珍视好奇心,而Carrie的这种特殊价值观鼓励招生官继续阅读。
继续探索故事和科学之间的交叉点,Carrie揭示了她过去在AP生物学方面的困难;也就是说,直到她了解到隐藏在主题中的惊人故事。通过结合她以前的兴趣和她对生物学的新发现的热爱,Carrie能够突出她过去的经历如何帮助她克服新的挑战。这把她描绘成一个有弹性和足智多谋的问题解决者:大学非常重视学生的特点。
Carrie在结束她的文章时相信,通过故事,一切都是可能的。她阐述了她未来在讲故事方面的抱负,以及她希望通过故事的力量让每个人都能享受到学习的乐趣。通过将自己的目标与超级英雄相比较,Carrie能够强调自己为社会变革做出贡献的热情。最重要的是,Carrie的雄心壮志表明她可以积极地为哈佛社区做出贡献,使她成为一名强有力的申请人。
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