人在美国，常有国内的朋友询问小孩出国留学的事。这几年，很多家庭送小孩直接到美国念大学，如何申

        请美国大学便成了很多人关心的事。

        申请美国大学一般要求写一至二篇作文。作文是学生向学校展现自己独特魅力的机会，是学校的招生人员除了考试分数等硬指标外评价学生的最重要的依据。往往，一篇作文定终身。

        下面的这篇作文是一篇极为优秀的范文，作者为 Lanren A Hackney，被耶鲁大学，麻省理工学院和波士顿学院同时录取。

        原文：

        I'M GOING RUNNING TODAY. I am not concerned about my calorie consumption for the day, nor am I anxious to get in shape for the winter season. I just want to go running。

        I used to dislike running. "If you don't win this game, you're all running five miles tomorrow," the field hockey coach used to warn, during those last days of October when the average temperature seemed to be decreasing exponentially. And so, occasionally, my grief-stricken team would run numerous miserable laps around the fields. At the end of these excursions, our faces and limbs would be numb, and we would all have developed those notorious flu-like symptoms; but the running made us better in the long run, I suppose. Nevertheless, I counted down the days until the end of the field hockey season, vowing never to put on a pair of running shoes again. Then I surprised myself by signing up for outdoor track in the second half of sophomore year. I was foolish to have believed that I could ever escape this insidious and magnetic addiction。 上一页 [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] 下一页