以下是引用cicilla在2006-2-15 22:34:00的发言:顶着被拍,来说句题外话:我还记得在我拿到Tuck Offer的时候,有人给我msg说,我看过你的essay,你可进Tuck,但是肯定进不了Wharton。等我拿到了Wharton,此兄继续给我msg说,我看过你的essay,你可以进Wharton,但是肯定进不了Stanford(ps:我很乖地都没有申请)......这边就开始被人大牛大牛的叫,甚至是一个进了几乎所有TOP3的人。然后一朋友对我说他感觉很好笑,进了个TOP10就都成了大牛了。
这里看到“大牛”打了个大大的引号,说他们所谓的Essay。我想起我第一次看到那些已经进去的中国学生写的essay,感觉他们真得很帮忙,辛辛苦苦写了那么久,就无私地贡献出来给大家参考。他们的essay就好像一个航标一样,至少让我大概有一个感觉,essay要写到一个什么样子。等我自己写好了,一些朋友说看看,那时候相互帮着看,也就给了,不过说要保密的人也最终没有保密,也就出现了给我发msg的人写的那些话(他看到的是我写给第一所学校的essay,因为后面的学校故事已经都换了,并没有几个人知道,而我根本就不认识他)。心里有些不开心,感觉被朋友出卖了。那时候就想再也不给任何看我的essay了,感觉有些人太没有信用。
只是等到申请结果出来了,大家也把我当作“大牛”,然后总是有人要我的essay说看看。这时候我又想起我当年看别人essay时候的感觉。只是essay中牵扯太多个人的信息,也怕被人说不ethical,就没有一一满足要求。
其实,essay写得也就那么回事。刚开始天花乱坠,写啊写,改阿改就成了现在这样平淡却更真实的样子(记得我第一次看“大牛”们的essay也是这个感觉,觉得没有什么出奇的地方。)
这里说“所谓大牛”,我想不管他们是否真的是大牛,他们能够把自己的essay奉献出来给这么多人看,就称得上“大牛“了。至少我现在还没有勇气去把我的Essay公布出来。
PS:大牛大牛,不都是我们叫起来的吗?何来的所谓?要所谓也是我们所谓出来的吧?
seems you are emotionally seared by the wording of "so-called". please tell me directly what is your feeling, a sort of being insulted, right? if not, why you care it so much and why you raised such an exaggerated feedback? yes, it is others who gave your the crown of "da niou", but if you do treat it in a detached mentality, why you are so picky in my adressing the so-called "da niou", even though this description is not originally served to you.
to be frank, i have never seen your essay to which i have no genuine interest. but i do know your "point" here. what you harbor in mind is that even "da nious" essay are not laudable, they can share their experience to other under a helpful spirit, which also has share of my appreciation. however, you must also bear a simple fact in mind that if you show sth publicly, then you d better to prepare any types of comments, simply because the mere acceptance by a few top school really are incapable to rank either your intelligence or English above others.
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