There is nothing fun about “fun questions.” And fun questions do not reduce stress.
Some high-pressured colleges have introduced "fun questions” to make the application process less stressful. If an application asks the applicant what he or she does for fun, don’t be fooled into
writing anything that makes you sound lazy, passive, a wannabe, a follower, a partier. Make sure you stress constructive activities that can be accommodated by the university to which you are applying.
所謂“有趣的問(wèn)題”其實(shí)并不有趣，而且絲毫不能為你的申請(qǐng)減壓。不少競(jìng)爭(zhēng)激烈的大學(xué)推出了“有趣的問(wèn)題”使申請(qǐng)過(guò)程看似輕松一些，但是，當(dāng)一份申請(qǐng)材料問(wèn)你平時(shí)喜歡做什么“有趣”的事的時(shí)候，千萬(wàn)不要隨意寫一些會(huì)使自己看起來(lái)懶惰，被動(dòng)，自以為是的，人云亦云，或者就喜歡醉生夢(mèng)死的事。一定要強(qiáng)調(diào)你參加的是會(huì)被申請(qǐng)大學(xué)所提倡的有建設(shè)性的活動(dòng)。
In previous applications, Penn has asked, “Tell us what you like to do for fun." MIT asked, "Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it." Harvey Mudd asked, "What fun, cool, or interesting things about you won't fit into the categories on the application? Feel welcome to be clever or funny."
在以往的申請(qǐng)中，賓大曾經(jīng)問(wèn)過(guò)“告訴我們你喜歡做什么有趣的事。”麻省理工問(wèn)過(guò)“告訴我們你做過(guò)的純屬喜愛(ài)的事。”哈維瑪?shù)麓髮W(xué)問(wèn)過(guò)：“你做過(guò)什么有趣或者很酷的事在申請(qǐng)表上無(wú)法體現(xiàn)出來(lái)？請(qǐng)盡量地發(fā)揮你的聰明才智。”
If anything, these Band-Aid questions bring greater stress to the applicants with whom I have spoken, as they struggle to figure out what fun they should speak of. After all, they observe that everyone they know who has been admitted to these colleges had no time for “fun” in high school, having pulled many all-nighters and faced week-ends and vacations filled with homework. In order to be seriously considered for these colleges, one must ace many time-consuming AP or IB courses一some students take five or six per year-which eats up all time for fun.
這些貌似有助于緩解申請(qǐng)壓力的問(wèn)題其實(shí)反而增加了申請(qǐng)人的壓力，因?yàn)樗麄兤疵氩鲁鲣浫∥瘑T會(huì)到底想要什么樣的答案。實(shí)際上，根據(jù)這些學(xué)生的經(jīng)驗(yàn)，他們沒(méi)看到自己周圍已經(jīng)被心儀院校錄取的同學(xué)曾經(jīng)有時(shí)間做過(guò)什么“有趣”的事。相反，他們看到的是這些人經(jīng)常熬夜，連周末和假期都堆滿了作業(yè)。情有可原，因?yàn)槿绻氡荒切╉敿獾拇髮W(xué)考慮，高中生需要考出很多的AP或者IB的高分 （有些學(xué)生一年要選五到六門這類課程，哪里還有時(shí)間干別的？）---待續(xù)。
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