My supplements need to be edited. Do you have any suggestions if you feel the response doesn't meet the prompt? Do these statements effectively show who I am? Do they seem sufficient enough?
Stanford students are widely known to possess a sense of intellectual vitality. Tell us about an idea or an experience you have had that you find intellectually engaging.
Picked from my homeland and flung into a truck, I traveled for miles until I reached the location where I would be sold. I now sit stagnant, spending the remainder of my existence in a bowl browning, until the dawn of my disposal. I wonder how it must feel to be a banana? It is astounding to think that we share 50% of our genetic sequence with the mindless fruit.
As a segment of the central dogma theory, genetics are the instructions for life. The influence that genetics has on our lives, essentially making us who we are, is a premise I find captivating. Not only does this sequence of letters determine the phenotypic aspects of hair and eye color, but also in coherence with our environment it can be methylated to code for diseases and personality traits. The query of DNA's power to influence our behavior and health is something I find intellectually engaging.
The summer between my junior and senior year, I had the experience of executing a solo research project. I worked in a breast cancer research lab and my project focused on the genetic markers of estrogen positive (EP) breast cancer. Through this experience, I found the influence of genetics on phenotypic characteristics intellectually engaging. I learned and experienced scientific theory beyond the textbook. A genetic sequence similar to the one I was researching could be the marker for EP breast cancer.
Virtually all of Stanford's undergraduates live on campus. Write a note to your future roommate that reveals something about you or that will help your roommate - and us - know you better.
Hello roommate,
I anticipate meeting you, anxious to begin our new collegiate lives. To say the least, I love people; not solely in the social sense, but also in an ethnographic context. Behind every person's facade, there is a novel of information, clarifying the reasons for our actions, opinions, and outlook on life. Sure our 'life's literature' is continuously being composed through our interactions with the world around us, but as roommates we should read into each others lives, and have a positive impact on our future chapters.
We'll laugh over java, tacos, or Thai cuisine, as we learn more about each other's family, culture, struggles, and successes. I'll tell you of my Creole ancestry and the broken language my grandmother speaks, (Something I still wish to learn). And to distress from our studies, I'm sure we will go shopping. I must admit, I love a bargain much more than spending time in any name brand store. I enjoy vintage stores. I relish in sifting through the racks of faded colors and 80's prints, pulling out an item that no one else could see purchasing, and transforming it into a something uniquely chic. That's how I am about many things. I see the promise and potential where most others would see worthlessness and failure. I attack challenges in the same manner, taking them apart and transforming them in a way that no one has ever thought of, making a problem, or even something seemingly useless, extremely successful. Ambitious innovation, something I love.
Tell us what makes Stanford a good place for you.
I stand here looking at the ceiling. Its translucency allowing me to see the wonders beyond the room I was in. It engaged and intrigued me, and I needed to get out.
Everyone wants to attend Stanford. It is an institution of high caliber learning and devoted instructors. Unlike many other institutions though, it asks students to push the envelope, be innovative and create the unknown. Programs such as Google, Yahoo and Netflix have evolved from the minds of scholars at Stanford. Though I don't seek to produce the next search engine, I will strive to use my intellectual potential to serve the world with novel ideas. For example, I developed a set of interactive problem based learning lessons to deliver to local middle schools, which eventually became international, reaching India. At Stanford I could further this volunteering through the university's Scientific Outreach Programs, seeking to change the perception and enthusiasm of math and science for local youth.
Stanford possesses programs for avant-garde students to take risks and blaze the trail. As a person with diverse interests in biology, anthropology, culture, special needs and education, I would take advantage of Stanford's offered programs. These programs include the Diversity Exchange Program, the Bing Overseas Studies program, research opportunities in several departments, and nine cultural centers. I know that at Stanford I will be offered the opportunities to cultivate new ideas that could break the glass ceiling.
Surely our 'life's literature' is continuously being composed through our interactions with the world around us, but as roommates we should read into each others lives, and have a positive impact on each other's future chapters.
Ambitious innovation, something I love. (it is a fragment, I suggest including a verb)
Programs such as Google, Yahoo and Netflix have evolved from the minds of scholars at Stanford. Though I don't seek to produce the next search engine, (It's interesting, but since you aren't planning to produce a new search engine, I would use other accomplishments of the Stanford alumni - btw Netflix is not a search engine)
I think they all fit the prompts and shows your interest and personality. I don't know the word limit, but I don't think you can elaborate any further... so they're probably okay!!! Please read my princeton supplement, they are due today and I don't want to not get accepted because I couldn't hand in the supplement in time!!! Thanks in advance :)
