斯坦福大学PS范文
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没有长篇大论地讲述自己有多么热爱某个学科
而是从“痒”开始——那种对知识的渴望，对世界的好奇心
一种挠不到的瘙痒感
我立刻被吸引住了
01、兴趣起源
For my entire life, I have had the itch: the itch to understand.
在我的一生中，我都有一种痒痒的感觉：想要了解。
As a kid I was obsessed with a universe I knew nothing about. In elementary school, my favorite book wasan introduction to fulcrumsfor kids. Like the Pythagoreans who had marveled at the perfect ratios of musical notes, I was enamored with the mathematical symmetries of fulcrums. The book inflamed my itchbut I had no means to scratch it.
小时候，我痴迷于一个我一无所知的宇宙。小学时，我最喜欢的一本书是一本介绍支点的儿童读物。就像毕达哥拉斯人惊叹于音符的完美比例一样，我也迷上了支点的数学对称性。这本书让我心痒难耐，却又无从下手。
02、成长环境的影响
I was raised a San Francisco Hippie by musicians and artists.I learned to sing the blues before I knew the words I used.Without guidance from any scientific role models, I never learned what it meant to do science, let alone differentiate science from science-fiction. As a kid, it was obvious to me a flying car was equally as plausible as a man on the moon. When my parents told memy design for a helium filled broomstick would not fly, they could not explain why, they just knew it wouldn’t. My curiosity went unrewarded and I learned to silence my scientific mind to avoid the torture of my inability to scratch the itch.
我是旧金山的嬉皮士，在音乐家和艺术家的熏陶下长大。在我学会唱蓝调之前，我还不知道自己用的是什么词。在没有任何科学榜样的指导下，我从未了解过科学意味着什么，更不用说区分科学和科幻了。小时候，我就觉得飞车和人类登月一样不可思议。当父母告诉我，我设计的充满氦气的扫帚飞不起来时，他们无法解释原因，只知道飞不起来。我的好奇心没有得到任何回报，我学会了让我的科学头脑保持沉默，以避免无法搔痒的折磨。
03、寻找自我
Then, inSophomore year, I met Kikki.Before Kikki, “passion” was an intangible vocab term I had memorized.Ever since she lost her best friend to cancer in middle school, she had been using her pain to fuel her passion for fighting cancer. When you spoke to her aboutoncology, her eyes lit up, she bounced like a child, her voice raised an octave. She emanated raw, overwhelming passion.
然后，在大二那年，我遇到了 Kikki。在 Kikki 之前，"激情 "只是我背过的一个无形词汇。自从她在中学时因癌症失去了最好的朋友，她就一直用自己的痛苦来激发抗癌的热情。当你和她谈起肿瘤学时，她的眼睛会发亮，像个孩子一样蹦蹦跳跳，声音会提高八度。她散发着原始的、压倒性的激情。
I wanted it. I was enviously watching another person scratch an itch I couldn’t.
我想要它。我羡慕地看着别人挠我挠不到的痒。
I was so desperate to feel the way Kikki did thatI faked feeling passionate; AP Physics 1 with Mr. Prothro had sparked my old Pythagorean wonder in mathematics so I latched on to physics as my new passion and whenever I talked about it, I made my eyes light up, made myself bounce like a child, purposefully raised my voice an octave.
我是如此迫切地想感受 Kikki 所做的一切，以至于我假装充满激情；Prothro 先生讲授的 AP 物理 1 激发了我对数学的毕达哥拉斯式的好奇，所以我把物理作为我的新爱好，每当我谈到物理时，我都会让自己的眼睛发亮，让自己像个孩子一样蹦蹦跳跳，故意把声音提高八度。
Slowly, my passion emerged from pretense and envy into reality.
慢慢地，我的激情从伪装和羡慕变成了现实。
04、投入学习
Without prompting, my eyes would light up, my heart would swell, and my mind would clear.One night, I was so exhilarated to start that night's problem set thatI jumped out of my seat. I forgot to sit back down.I spent that night bent over at my desk, occasionally straightening out, walking around and visualising problems in my head.Five whiteboards now cover my walls and every night, I do my homework standing up.
无需提示，我的眼睛就会发亮，我的心就会膨胀，我的头脑就会清醒。一天晚上，我兴高采烈地开始做当晚的题集，以至于从座位上跳了起来。我忘了坐下来。那天晚上，我一直弯着腰趴在桌子上，偶尔直起身子，走来走去，在脑子里想象问题。现在，我的墙上贴满了五块白板，每天晚上，我都站着做作业。
Once learning became my passion, my life changed. Old concepts gained new beauty,the blues became a powerful medium of expression.Mathematics became a language rather than a subject. I rocketed from the kid who cried in class while learning about negative numbers to one of two juniors in an 800-person class to skip directly into AP Physics C and AP Calculus BC. I founded[School]Physics Club, which became one of the largest clubs in the school. Over the summer at Stanford, I earned perfect marks in Ordinary Differential Equations, Energy Resources, an Introduction to MATLAB, and an environmental seminar, all the while completing the Summer Environment and Water Studies Intensive.Now in my senior year, I am earning my AS in Mathematics and Physics at the City College of San Francisco.
一旦学习成为我的激情所在，我的生活就发生了改变。古老的概念获得了新的美感，蓝调成为一种强有力的表达媒介。数学成为一种语言，而不是一门学科。我从学习负数时在课堂上哭泣的孩子，一跃成为 800 人班级中直接跳级进入 AP 物理 C 和 AP 微积分 BC 的两名高三学生之一。我成立了[学校]物理俱乐部，该俱乐部成为学校最大的俱乐部之一。暑假期间，我在斯坦福大学的常微分方程、能源资源、MATLAB 入门和环境研讨会上获得了满分，同时还完成了暑期环境与水研究强化课程。现在，我正在旧金山城市学院攻读数学和物理的 AS 学位。
05、总结与自我成长
As I enter college, the applicability of my field of physics offers me a broad array of high-impact careers.Given that by 2050, 17% of Bangladesh's land will be underwater displacing twenty million people, I have settled on energy resources engineering.
进入大学后，物理学领域的适用性为我提供了一系列影响深远的职业。鉴于到 2050 年，孟加拉国 17% 的陆地将被淹没，届时将有两千万人流离失所，我选择了能源资源工程专业。
All of this is natural progression from one development -I learned to scratch my itch.
所有这一切都源于一个发展过程--我学会了挠痒。
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