입학 원서 에세이 |
2005년 8월 22일, I reminded me thousands times of my father's advice, '태평양에 모든 것을 버리고 캐나다에서 새롭게 태어나라." However, the first step on Canada destroyed all my will power. What had only left was a thought of how to have fun. As a result, I took a deviation from a student's path. Still, my consciousness always had said, 'You are going too far.' And yet, I neglected it and I kept going on and on. 2007년 3월 4일, my family moved our place to a pastor's house. Therefore, we went to church every Saturday and Sunday. At the first sight of the inside of the church actually surprised me, because of the people in the church were all drug-addict. Even though I had an aversion toward them, I decided to remain still. 2007년 4월 28일, at the church, I opened my sleepy-eyes, giving a big yawn. I looked around the room. I could see one shiny eyes opened toward the pastor, while everyone was half-lied on the chair. That actually was a big blow to me, because he was a drug-addict as well. 설교가 끝난 후, it was a meal time, the time that people started to open their eyes. I served a meal to each people. Ironically, even though they were in church, they did not pray for a meal that God bestow on them. Even though I served them without any compensation, I could not hear any two words, ‘Thank you.’ However , the man that I thought was eccentric said, “Thank you, God bless you,” with a voice that palliates my rage. I thought, ‘This guy is different.’ So, I approached up to him and tried to make a conversation with my short English, but with my truthful heart. As I anticipated, he was sociable. 대화를 하던 중, he started to shed tears. He told me he once was a professor at the University of Oxford. All of a sudden, Alex asked me what my goal is. I answered, “To be a judge and save people from mundane abyss,” without any hesitance, because it has been my dream ever since I knew that my father had failed to become one due to a shortage of money. However, Alex said, “That is not enough; first, you must be a man to succeed in your life.” He also told me of how he collapsed into an untidy, small drug-addict. “I had had my well-erudite daughter and a son, a beautiful wife, and a well-paid job. One day, I had a big trouble, but I could not overcome the sadness from that trouble. Yes, so I started to drug.” Suddenly, he grabbed a pen and a sheet of paper, and started to write something. The content was like this. If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can dream - and not make dreams your master; If you can make one heap of all your winnings and risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, and lose, and start again at your beginnings and never breathe a word about your loss; If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, nor walk with Kings - nor lose the common touch, If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you, 이 편지를 읽고, I could feel an awakening of the self; an awakening of my long-hidden passion. As a result, I could get above 1900 SAT score in gr.8.. As a result, I could join the B.C soccer team. As a result, I could think of me walking in the garden of the University of Harvard in the next few years. As a result, I could think of me helping uneducated people to learn English As a result, and which is more, I could know Korea is desperate for me. There’s a maxim of 도산 안창호: ‘그대 중에 인물이 없다고 한탄하는가, 그렇다면 왜 그대는 인물 될 공부를 아니하는가?” ’强弩之末’ 강노지말 이라고 했던가, 아무리 강한 화살이라도 멀리 가면 비단천 하나 구멍못낸다고. Even I had had such a passion, it is getting weak. It seemed like I need another stimulus. During this stage, my father told me about 북일고등학교’s ingenuous program.. I directly went to PC방, and started to search about 북일고등학교. 북일고등학교 was very different from 용인외고(abbreviation), my formal wanted-school. When I was thinking about 용인외고, I thought I really need to study every seconds. However, this school left me a thought like, ‘I need a passion like I used to have.’ This thought sufficed me to choose 북일고등학교, even though I prepared for 용인외고 for a year by memorizing 용인외고’s 교가, 교칙, etc.. Again, the only reason why that 북일고등학교 is the one that I HAVE TO go is that this school is the only one that will rejuvenate my soul. 2008년 8월 25일, 북일고등학교의 교정의 공기를 들이마쉰다. 난 세계 최고진의 교수님들의 가르침, 꾸중 그리고 열정과 어우러진 나의 3년간 캐나다에서의 경험과, 잠시 잃어버렸던 한 때 불탔던 나의 열정을 바탕으로 세계로 뻗어나갈 것이다. 아이비리그가 나의 최고의 목표는 아니지만, 난 내가 아는 한국인의 궁극적 목표를 이루기 위해 아이비리그를 갈 것이다. 그 주춧돌 작업을 마친 후, 난 도산 안창호 선생님이 그의 딸 수산에게 말씀하신 대목을 기억하면서 지붕을 높디 높게 지을 것이다., ‘너는 대학을 마친 후에 조선에 와서 일하여야 할 터인데 조선에 개량할 것이 많은 중…..”
(안녕하세요? 여기까지 읽어 주신 분들에 대해 진심으로 감사드립니다. 그리고 저의 입학을 기도해주십시오. 또 에러가 많겠지만 문법면에서나 내용면에서나 많이 조언해주십시오. 감사합니다. God bless you~) |