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学校简单介绍

康奈尔大学(Cornell University)，创立于1865年，是一所位于美国东北纽约上州手指湖地区伊萨卡市的世界顶级研究型综合大学，是著名的常春藤联盟成员，共有40多名师生曾荣获诺贝尔奖。康奈尔大学的立校之本是任何人都有获得教育的平等权利，是常春藤盟校中第一所实行性别平等的男女合校大学，招生录取上不计贵族身份，不分信仰和种族，并且其校训的宗旨是创建学科齐全、包罗万象的新型综合性大学，因而该校一直被誉为美国历史上第一所具有真正意义的全民大学。康奈尔大学最初以农工学院为特色而起家，其酒店管理学院、工业与劳工关系为全美首创。其传统优势专业包括农业、兽医、工科、劳工关系、文理、经济、建筑、教育、商科、传媒以及酒店管理等。

文书范本

When I was ten years old, I met Vince Lombardi. I saw him at the post office. He was sitting quietly with George Marshall and Humphrey Bogart. Vince cast a triumphant smile in my direction. His excitement was so contagious that I could not help smiling with him. Mr. Marshall, however, seemed to stare right through me. His solemn gaze conveyed little more than that he had very important things on his mind. Then I looked to Humphrey Bogart, who, with a suave movement, simply cocked his head to one side, and sat there, just looking good. The three men seemed nice enough, so I took them home with me. Yes, they had all been dead for many years, but I didn't really mind. In my room, armed with a pair of tongs, I gingerly slid each of them into the slots of homemade album pages, next to stamps of bright blue jays, waving flags, bursting flowers, a crooning Elvis Presley, and scores of others, which I had acquired over the past two years.

Philately caught my attention very early in my life. My grandfather hooked me with a stamp from the 1960s that commemorated the sesquicentennial of the Erie Canal. I was drawn to the small colorful pictures like a crow is drawn to shiny objects. I started saving every stamp that I could find. The hobby quickly developed into more than a haphazard accumulation of pretty paper labels. A closer examination of each stamp revealed new cultures, new languages, new people, new geography; new worlds, each competing to quench my inherent thirst for knowledge, steering my imagination to new heights.

As a group, stamp collectors have been categorically branded as wealthy, reclusive, boring, moldy old men. However, I've been an avid philatelist since age eight, and, as a seventeen-year-old in high school, I don't fit the stereotype very well. It is true that few young people collect stamps. Though I know some exist I've never met another stamp collector my age. More often than not, my peers express disapproval for the hobby. In fact, when I told a friend that this essay would be about stamp collecting, he laughed and said, "Man, you're going to have a tough time making that sound cool." I pointed to a pile of trading cards on his desk and replied, "Hey, at least I don't collect Magic cards" (Magic is a fantasy card game similar to the Pokemon game that swept the country a few years ago). I understand how some could perceive the slow, tedious processes associated with stamp collecting, like sorting, classification, grading, and organization, as exercises in monotonous futility. I, for one, not only welcome the procedural structure of these processes, but also embrace the rare opportunity for uninterrupted solitude that accompanies them, using it to develop my patience and allow my imagination to lead me through exciting childhood realms of exploration and adventure—winning Super Bowls, rebuilding post-war Europe, making films—which are markedly absent from the high school experience.

I don't think I will ever be able to make philately "sound cool," but at the same time, I don't feel like I need to. It's not about being "cool." I'm a philatelist, because stamp collecting gives me pleasure and peace of mind.

申请顾问编著点评

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有多少孩子可以坦然地面对自己不入流的爱好，坚定不移地捍卫自己的信念呢？这些珍贵的品质，在申请人朴实的陈述和对于集邮生动的描写中源源不断地流露出来，情感那样的自然和细腻，却又感人至深，让读者感受到这样一个鲜活的形象。从以上的分析中不难看出，一篇成功的申请文书就是该这样。