文档介绍：Statement of Purpose
By Zhou Ming
这篇文章最大的问题在于材料组织的凌乱。作者有很多话要讲,但却讲得不甚清楚,在很多旁枝的东西上花费了过多的笔墨,这个问题比较普遍,应当引起大家的注意。
"I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor." I read those words said by Oliver Wendell Holmes two years ago. (Personal statement的目的是促使对方学校接收自己的申请,因此不妨开诚布公地讲明自己的意图。在这里引述一大段名人名言没有什么意义,对方不会从这些话中得到关于你的任何信息,所以可以统统不要。总的来讲,就是要言之有物,而不要华而不实。)From then on, I cherished them in my heart as my motto. I think it is the result of my continuing sailing in the sea of knowledge that I can apply to the Department of Economics of the world-famous University of with full confidence.
I was born in Chengdu, a blooming city in China. I haven't met very big setbacks in my life. But my father came from the poor countryside, and slaved all day long with no assurance when the next meal e when he was young. In the three years of famine in 1960s in China, He was almost starved to death. But he lived through finally and went into Sichuan University-the best University in Sichuan Province by his struggle and fight. Now he is a famous professor in Department of Chemistry in Sichuan University. My mother was born in Chengdu. The ten years of "Culture Revolution" wasted her youth and deprived her the