编者按：Personal Statement Now, either from such medias as television, magazine and network, or experienced by ourselves, the fact o...
Personal Statement
Now, either from such medias as television, magazine and network, or experienced by ourselves, the fact of environmental deterioration is displayed, which we have to worry about. In middle and western part of China, drying and desertification phenomena are obvious. “Badlands” with flourishing plants and vigorous flowing water in Beijing outskirt were covered by square “ match boxes” over night, with that, there is winter nearly without snow. In order to beautify environment, the property of our community made a river, but it became a smelly one sooner. The above seem to be resulted by organization or individual, which have no business with us. And we also have no right to interfere. But this excuse does not ease me. In daily life, many of our actions bring danger to the sustainable development of the entironment. For example, shampoo we use every day will threaten the entironment if it is not treated strictly. So I earnestly pay attention to collecting approaches to solve such kind of problems. As a result, out of my expectations, I find that traditional custom can better solve the problems. For instance, Dai people use fermented water that has cleaned the rice to wash their hair. This absolutely does no harm to the environment. Moreover, many Dai people all along have black hair through their lifetime; in Chinese medicine, herbal medicine and silver acus are used to cure people and there seems to be no such problems as antibiotics. I am puzzled that as if traditional living ways get along better with nature. Then, what will today’s biology science do? In this regard, I want to go to America, a country nearer to science, especially advanced science, to disabuse my questions. I will make attempts to use it solve some problems in vicious circle and maintain harmonious living environment or use science to explain and connect such kind of traditional ways as Chinese medicine with modern science.
I was born in Xinjiang, the center of Asia and Europe. Industrial and agricultural civilization there is not developed, but natural sceneries are very beautiful. In the north, there are snow mountains, lakes and forests like that of Switzerland as well as grassland that is clear and capacious; in the south, there is vasty desert and flourishing and vigorous oasis interspersed in it. I spent my primary school time at a private school in Beijing (the first one in Beijing). Because it was established by individual, the school had more independence and our headmaster determined not to educate us in the way other school did, that is, only to pay attention to Chinese and Mathematics. He provided us science devices and sorts of sports facilitates, very advanced in we children’s eyes, and allowed us to choose teacher on our own. Taking this advantage, I was lucky to use microscope frequently when I was in Grade 3 at primary school to watch materials I searched all over the school like leaves of peach, small unknown flowers and roots of withered plant. It was my greatest fun to make various materials into temporary flakes—more seductive than sweets. When I was in Grade 4, I assisted the teacher in making a sample of white rabbit and it was displayed in our headmaster’s show box till my graduation from the school. Then I entered Experimental High School attached to Beijing Normal University, a key one in Beijing ranking the Second or Third Place and situating in the back of Ministry of Education of China. Our teachers were all learned, quoting a wealth of examples and famous theories and words in class, which was very interesting. There, I imbibed kinds of knowledge concerning geography, history, politics, physics and chemistry, etc. And my records were all good, especially in geography and biology. From Junior 1 to Senior 3, my records of these two courses were never below 92/100 points. But biology was still my favorite. I partook in biology experimental elective course and did more experiments than that required in teaching outline, such as generally extracting DNA, anatomizing frog and identifying chlorophyll. In Senior 2, I studied by myself General Biology, which was the course of freshman of China and got the Second Prize in National High School Students Biology Competition, ranking top 30 in Beijing—there were nearly 100,000 participants in Beijing.