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College Admissions Essay: I Am Pursuing My Dreams

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The breathtaking emotions that embrace me every time the city stares at me right in my eyes, is what draws my attention to the field. I desire a connection created for the equality of the rich and the poor; I desire a shelter built to open new horizons; I desire a space opened to lead us to the eternal balance between human and nature.

My artistic multicultural worldview is multi-factorial as my upbringing was rather unorthodox. I am a German citizen, born to Chinese parents and taught in an international education system. My dream had once been to change the world by following suit with architecture as China has done it with “Alibaba” in finance. However, after struggling to identify who I am, where I belong and what I am looking for; after travelling to many places and seen many different people; after being the center of a crowd and living through despise--- I realized that I wanted to become a harbor, to …show more content…

On these undertakings I also learned administrative skills to help shape these different events. I have worked through the system from design concept, to translation, and even to executing the final project. In all this I have learned to look at a building like a vivid human in all its dynamic glory. The beauty of it, it’s historical features and also to appreciate the psychology; a bright yellow duck in the middle of down town can bring hope and make people happier in their depressing hustle and bustle of life.I started my path down the vast upside-down turrets of that pagoda and truly understood that: “art meets function”. Having been exposed to eastern and western architectures, I shaped my own opinion and thought it is no longer right to hold the “common sense” thinking that “Eastern is tradition, Western is Modernity.” If there is one belief I have for architecture right now, I’d say it’s “Modernity of Eastern and Tradition of

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