Why Graduate School?
Being good at not only Chinese traditional art ¨C Calligraphy and Chinese realistic painting, but also some instruments like piano, I never chose them as a professional. Why, you may wonder? Intellectually, I love something more sacred ¨C natural science. I had not decided to study Biology until I finished my high school. I had a beautiful and amiable teacher in my biology class. I think it might be the course that I learned best among all the subjects. From carbohydrates, lipids, proteins, nucleic acids, to functions of tissues of plants and animals, I've learned something that I've never known before, not only the knowledge, but also the way of thinking of life that I've never known life can be as complex as that.
Nourishing my dreaming of becoming proficient in biology, I was accepted by national education base of life science and biotechnology in Northwest A&F University, which is the authority on Agriculture and Forestry in China. Not like other normal four-year college system, we run for three years instead, because we will go directly to postgraduate phrase in our school after three years college education, which you can call it accelerating program.
A beautiful and quiet campus provides me a good surrounding for being concentrated on my study and research. I've learned that learning knowledge from books is not the only purpose I¡¯m being to school, since I also learned how to be a qualified human being. I¡¯d love to thank people who have been always encouraging and inspiring me materially and spiritually. I had a good friend, getting his PhD on theoretical physics in California Institute of Technology, who made me know that there are some other things to pursue other than fortune and fame ¨C the belief in science. I¡¯m always fascinated by Nobel Prize winners and I hope that I can work with them one day to learn more about their acute observation capability and their serious discipline in science. I've learned how to be cultured to be a will-be scientist, since not everybody can be. I've learned that it¡¯s not easy to be a scientist, since it might take several generations to make even a little progress. With a sophisticated understanding in these areas, I have been well positioned to appreciate the basic theories of bioengineering and biotechnology. In the first year college, I led a group and wrote a commercial project plan...