哈佛大学申请书

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The future for me has never been so confusing. Until last year, my future was clear. I was to become a doctor of medicine and what a noble profession it seemed to me. To treat the sic, to help the poor, to battle the invisible foe, the doctor fulfills all these functions and more. What more could there be in life? what faster way could there have been to live life to its fullest.

This was an extremely parochial view I held until last year when something astounding happened: a certain fire ignited in me. This fire was a consuming greed for knowledge itself. The fire was fueled not by pretentious desire to be knowledgeable but rather by the desire to understand the conditions of my environment. I saw for the first time the power and life in the humanities, the sweeping cogency that lay behind the words from the past, the actions of our forebears from which we may learn to be cope better in similar situations, the path by which mankind has traveled thus far. It is this fire that threw my future into confusion.

A love of history was sparked in me by an extraordinary teacher just last year.Before, history did not seem a coherent whole but a series of disconnected events that somehow miraculously resulted in the present. MS. Kennedy, however, turned history into a living beast. This beast thought, reflected, and acted. Each

action had countless causes and infinite repercussions.History was suddenly transformed into a logical history of the failures and accomplishments of mankind. By studying how the present was affected by the long chain of causes and effects throughout the past, we may not only change the future but understand how and why people have come to act the way they do now.n

And in English, what power there is! A simple combination of words leads to a sentence that can never be forgotten by posterity. If the power behind words were not enough, there was the effect produced by it. Love, life, death, justice, revenge, all portrayed in vibrant words echoing down the centuries. Here is my great ambition: I wish to become like one of the Great Masters of Classical Literature. I want to learn how I can write in their style and produce moving lines of literature never to be forgotten. I want to be able to communicate my thoughts effectively and concisely. This is one great frustration I feel when I write the inability to write my thoughts and my hearts. I want other people to know what I am thinking and what I am feeling, so that they too may be able to see the world from my eyes.

If the humanities play a role in my future, by no smaller effect will the science play a crucial role as well. Before last year, my mind but not my heart lay with the objective studies of the universe, the cold, calculating science, but then the fire that has sparked my newly found love for the humanities allowed me to explore the science in a different light. I saw for the first time, the fervor and ambition with which the science worked. I came to love science for its purpose in society. The sciences were no longer cold and calculating, but alive and worth pursuing.

With the same fire consuming me, mathematics came to be loved. The clearness and the elegance of mathematics never escaped my notice, but now it is augmented. I began to see the philosophical side of mathematics: how and why mathematics can be applied to the world. Two years ago, I began to study a new branch of mathematics: Chaos. This discipline provided the final keystone in the bridge between themathematics and the real world. All the sciences rely on mathematics: Therefore, mathematics was only used indirectly to explain nature. Now, with chaos, mathematics is finally directly applied to the real world. Finally, mathematics is able to explain everything from the inconsistencies of the stock market to the simple everyday phenomenon of static. Mathematics became nature through chaos, and I also want to explore this.

Where I had studied the subject of chaos in mathematics, I now study the chaos of my mind what to doÉ love it all, I want to study it all. I want to learn. My greatest ambition remains to become a doctor, but my greatest fear is that fire in me will become extinguished. When I go to college and study pre-medicine, it will surely not be the only subject I will pursue ardently. The humanities have too strong a hole for me to give them up. So this is my future: a conglomeration of the humanities, sciences, and mathematics working as a whole but with the ultimate goal of becoming an explorer of life.