AMINEF - GLOBAL UGRAD U.S. Student Exchange Program.
Prompt:Essay Choice B: Using one or more examples, please describe a challenge at school, work or in your personal life that you have had to overcome. How did you resolve the situation? How has this experience affected who you are today and the way you see the world?
Doing the Undoable
There's common addiction such as cigarette and alcohol, and then there's mine, brainwork.
It began on my first semester at a particular event, the final project topic selection day. Our professor issued a topic list for us to choose, the offline way, when you must come to the professor's office and sign your name beside the topic for the topic to be officially yours. Not like the majority of my friends who has a flat near our campus, my house is a half hour trip from campus. When the sudden announcement of the list have been tacked on the professor's office posted on facebook, I'm still thirty minutes away from campus. My friends obviously went to the office that instant and picked the easiest topic first. The time I finally reached the topic list, all I can see is a bunch of handwritten names and signature on every cell beside the topic column, except for one, the one that has a chain of alien words that I never heard before ever since the beginning of the course as the topic column placeholder, which obviously the last topic available if the list is sorted in a shortest to hardest fashion.
This is the third week after the topic selection day, many of my friends already finished their final project, while I'm still struggling with "...iptables....firewall...NAT..." still trying to figure out how to filter the campus internet connection through my protocol. It's only a week before the due date. The deadline pressure and my small understanding pushed my brain to work like never before. Those drug addicts should try this instead of their venomous narcotics to make them high. After a seven days of heavy internet search session I finally finished this hell of a final project an hour before it is due.
The satisfaction of not knowing to knowing a particular knowledge in a short period of time, made me addicted to heavy brainwork.
For the next semesters, when I'm faced with a moment in which I must make a choice, I always go for the new unknown option rather than the one I already studied during the course or other source.
This addiction also benefits me financially, many jobs and projects posted by my professors and headhunters on this third year of college, many of which are still unfamiliar to me. Project by project I took using the same deadline pressure+unknownness formula. In the end I made a good amount of money and a greater amount of new knowledge and experience.
This mindset here in this modern era which information are scattered everywhere over the internet and books, made me realize that there's literally nothing impossible or undoable, whether or not you want to collect those scattered pieces of information is another question, whether or not you're willing to do the effort to make it happen is yet another question.
The urge to learn how the culture and how student study in such a developed country made studying in U.S. my lifelong dream.
