Nervous at the prospect of entering my first college class, I take a deep breath and enter the room. As I breathe in, I imagine a huge auditorium with numerous students focusing on a single professor lecturing in a language no one in the room understands. After class, the professor leaves to resea..

After I finish reading a book, I often review the author’s comments on the plot and themes. Surprisingly, my interpretations were often severely different from the authors’ intention. I wondered what it would be like to hear lectures of the professors who wrote the engineering texts I..

Jogging along a trail, enjoying the fresh air, I suddenly come to a wood with trees measuring more than an arm’s span around. Among the trees I saw several buildings, and I and the other students headed towards one of them. In one of the classes, I was astonished at an unfamiliar scene: a sm..

Tufts: Every day, people make decisions that force them beyond their comfort levels. Perhaps you moved to a different country or left behind your neighborhood friends to attend a school outside your home district. Maybe you have a political, social or cultural viewpoint that is not shared by the r..

100-word version (out of 100 word limit): Rochester From my experiences of other cultures, I found my aspiration and potential. I love traveling and living in other countries. As Rochester provides rigorous language programs and gives students numerous opportunities to study abroad, I am convinced..

361-word version: Johns Hopkins – International Relations Don Overdore is the person who suggested that Johns Hopkins needed a student like me, that I would have great results there. A few years ago, I read an interesting work by Don Overdore, a third party with a different but objective per..