Autobiographical Essay

It has been more than two years since I left China for pursuing qualified education in the United States. After graduating from Hangzhou Westlake High School, I was obviously still a dependent boy as I stepped on this land fulfilled with unknowns. The experiences of studying and living in the Washington provide me with the qualification of being a thorough mature one, who is definitely eligible to be a student major in the Interdisciplinary Arts at University of Washington, Bothell.

In the past several quarters, I experienced a totally disparate educational system in a new country. In the beginning, it was such a novel opening to me to be exposed myself to the fresh surroundings. Unlike others, I was so active in such a wonderful place in the Washington to carry out my academy. In the meanwhile, courses in the first quarter, which is propaedeutic learning for us freshman, was not so hard to me, since I was confident with my academic ability proved by my high school records. Luckily, in wake of devoting myself to broaden horizon by visiting interesting sites including museums and beauty spots, I still got an A, and passed all my finals. At that time, I was extremely proud of my successes both in school and personal interests, which contributes to my drawback in the second quarter. As the academic path moved, everything has changed. In particular, schoolwork in Bellevue College leveled up into a more difficult one, leaving me no time to enjoy my personal interests at all. What was worse, my intelligence seemed to be not work well since I did not concentrate on my study a lot for a long time. On the contrary, my classmates have improved so much, which made it less possible to catch up with them in class. Tragically, I got an F in the mid-term exam of Calculus that was a brand-new field to me. Misfortunes never come singly. I got a second "F" in English 093. It was such a shock that waked me up drastically, which gave me a big push in shifting my emphasis on academic aspect. For the rest of the quarter, I spent most of my time in the library to improve my schoolwork. Once I have problems, I have accessed to all kinds of resources, including going to the professors and even classmates to seek for help. At last, I have passed all courses in that quarter, and moreover I have cultivated solid friendship with my classmates, who regard me as a persevering person.

Furthermore, I have equipped with the ability of striking a balance between study and personal interests during the last two-year life in Washington. As a student with a transfer associate degrees associated in Arts and Science, school missions in the

Bellevue College has prepared me as a qualified college student who is ready to continuously study in University of Washington, Bothell. In addition, I have regularly visited museums such as Bellevue Art Museum and Seattle Art Museum to meet my personal interests in the cultural differences between Chinese and the United States. As a result, I intend to join in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Science and major in the Interdisciplinary Arts to advance my scope of knowledge in America, then figure out reasons of the cultural differences gradually. The University of Washington, Bothell is well known as classes in small size, instructors with easy accessibility, teaching in creative ways, and research with integrating theory and experiment, which paves me the way to a further study.

After graduation form undergraduate school, I prefer to continue a further study in this area, specific in how people understand the cultural diversity between the United States and the China.