Harvard PS范文
今天要给大家带来一篇哈佛大学的PS范文，
这篇PS告诉我们别光想着展示自己“多厉害”，试着用一个小小的细节、一段小故事，去体现你的性格、成长和价值观。毕竟，比起堆积“成就清单”，讲个有温度的故事，更容易让人记住你。✨
兴趣起源与家族传承
My nightstand is home to a small menagerie of critters, each glass-eyed specimen lovingly stuffed with cotton. Don’t get the wrong idea, now – I’m not a taxidermist or anything. I crochet.
我的床头柜上摆放着许多小动物，每只玻璃眼标本都用棉花塞得满满当当。别误会，我不是标本剥制师。我是钩针编织的。
Crochet is a family tradition. My grandmother used to wield her menacing steel hook like a mage’s staff and tout it as such: an instrument that bestowed patience, decorum, and poise on its owner. During her youth in Vietnam, she spent her evenings designing patterns for ornate doilies and handkerchiefs. Then the Vietnam War turned our family into refugees. The Viet Cong imprisoned my grandfather, a colonel in the South Vietnam Air Force, in a grueling labor camp for thirteen years. Many wives would have lost hope, but my grandmother was no average woman. A literature professor in a time when women’s access to education was limited, she assumed the role of matriarch with wisdom and confidence, providing financial and emotional security. As luxuries like yarn grew scarce, she conjured up all sorts of useful household items – durable pillowcases, blankets, and winter coats – and taught my mother to do the same. Because of these bitter wartime memories, she wanted my handiwork to be of a decidedly less practical bent; among the first objects she taught me to crochet were chrysanthemums and roses. However, making flowers bloom from yarn was no easy task.
钩针编织是家族传统。我的祖母曾经像法师的法杖一样挥舞着她那威风凛凛的钢钩，并吹嘘说：这是一种赋予主人耐心、礼仪和风度的工具。年轻时在越南，她利用晚上的时间设计华丽的桌巾和手帕图案。后来越战爆发，我们全家沦为难民。我的祖父是南越空军上校，越共将他囚禁在艰苦的劳改营中长达十三年。许多妻子都会失去希望，但我的祖母不是一般的女人。在那个女性受教育机会有限的年代，作为一名文学教授，她以智慧和自信承担起了家庭主妇的角色，为我们提供经济和情感保障。在纱线等奢侈品日益稀缺的情况下，她变出了各种有用的家居用品--耐用的枕套、毯子和冬衣，并教我母亲做同样的事情。因为这些痛苦的战时记忆，她希望我的手工作品不那么实用；她教我钩织的第一批物品是菊花和玫瑰。然而，用毛线编出花朵并非易事。
学习过程与个人成长
Even with its soft plastic grip and friendly rounded edges, my first crochet hook had a mind of its own, like the enchanted broom in “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.” It stubbornly disobeyed my orders as I impatiently wrenched it through the yarn. My grandmother’s stern appraisal of my efforts often interrupted this perpetual tug-of-war: My stitches were uneven. The edges curled inward. I would unravel my work and start anew.
我的第一把钩针虽然有着柔软的塑料手柄和友好的圆形边缘，但它还是有自己的想法，就像《巫师的学徒》中那把被施了魔法的扫帚。当我不耐烦地将它穿过纱线时，它顽固地不听我的命令。祖母对我努力的严厉批评常常打断这场旷日持久的拉锯战：我的针脚不均匀。边缘向内卷曲。我会解开我的工作，重新开始。
I convinced myself that cobbling together a lopsided rectangle would be the pinnacle of my crochet prowess but refused to give up. Just as a diligent wizard casts more advanced spells over time, I learned to channel the magic of the crochet hook. The animal kingdom is my main source of inspiration; the diversity and vivid pigmentation of life on Earth lend themselves perfectly to the vibrant and versatile art of crochet. Many of the animals I make embark on migratory journeys, like their real-life counterparts. Take Agnes, for example, a cornflower-blue elephant named after mathematician Maria Gaetana Agnesi who lives in my calculus teacher’s classroom, happily grazing on old pencil shavings and worksheets. As I fasten off the final stitches on every creature, I hope to weave a little whimsy and color into someone’s life.
我说服自己，拼凑出一个歪歪扭扭的长方形将是我钩针编织技术的巅峰，但我拒绝放弃。就像一个勤奋的巫师会随着时间的推移施展更高级的法术一样，我也学会了引导钩针的魔力。动物王国是我的主要灵感来源；地球上生命的多样性和鲜艳的色泽与钩针这种生动多变的艺术完美地结合在一起。我编织的许多动物都像现实生活中的动物一样踏上了迁徙之旅。以艾格尼丝为例，这是一头矢车菊蓝色的大象，以数学家玛丽亚-盖塔纳-艾格尼丝（Maria Gaetana Agnesi）的名字命名，它住在我微积分老师的教室里，快乐地吃着旧铅笔屑和作业本。当我为每一个小动物缝上最后一针时，我希望能为别人的生活增添一点奇思妙想和色彩。
文化身份与未来展望
Each piece I finish reminds me of the network of stitches that connects mother and daughter, past and present, tradition and innovation. In this vast cultural web, I am proud to be my family’s link between East and West. As I prepare for adulthood, I am eager to weave my own mark into the great patchwork quilt that is America.
我完成的每一件作品都会让我想起连接母亲与女儿、过去与现在、传统与创新的针线网络。在这个巨大的文化网络中，我为自己的家族成为连接东西方的纽带而感到自豪。当我准备长大成人时，我渴望在美国这个伟大的拼布被子上织上自己的印记。
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