Please tell us something about yourself, your experiences, or activities that you believe would reflect positively on your ability to succeed at Penn State. This is your opportunity to tell us something about yourself that is not already reflected in your application or academic records. We suggest a limit of 500 words or fewer.
Life is not always full of smiles and flowers. So it is very important to have a correct attitude to face up the difficulties.
Two years ago, when I was busy for preparing the SAT and TOFEL, my teacher asked me to take part in a dance team in school competitions. He told me that the extracurricular activities could also give you the benefit on the application of the U.S. universities. But I thought I was not good at dancing and I need spend a lot of time on English learning, so I did not want to participate the dance team. Unable to withstand the teacher’s persuading, finally I joined the dance team and began to learn the dance. Fortunately, the dance teacher was very responsible, and taught the students carefully. Although I did not have much base on dancing, I learned quickly under the teacher"s guide. At that time, because of the busy study on English, I took the dance as my only entertainment, so I learned the dance very seriously, sometimes I stayed in dance room for additional training. After a period of careful practice, I found the dance was not difficult as I thought, I began to doubt my judgment on my dancing. Maybe I was good at dancing but I was shy in public and did not have a try. With increasing of my confidence, I worked hard and performed well. The dance teacher took me as the leading dancer in the team. I felt very happy, but on the other side I have the responsibility to lead the team members dancing well. Fortunately, in the final school competition, we won the second which was the best reward for dancing in our class. My teacher was very happy and invited us to dinner, he told to me that difficulties was not terrible, the really terrible thing was giving up without trying.
I agree with the teacher"s view very much, after this dancing activity, I found that the right way to face up difficulties is to be confident and brave, Confront difficulties with confident, and you will find the difficulties are not as hard as you thought. Try to solve the difficulties with brave and work hard, the difficulties will disappear and you will achieve success finally. If I was luckily selected by Penn State University, I will do many attempts in the college, not just hard study. I will explore and exercise my ability by participating in extracurricular activities, associations, commercial companies internships and so on.
生活中并不总是充满微笑和鲜花，所以用一个正确的态度来面对困难是非常重要的。
两年前，当我正忙着准备SAT和TOFEL考试 ，我的老师叫我参加一个舞蹈队在学校比赛。他告诉我，课外活动也可以给你在美国的大学生活带来好处。但我觉得自己不擅长跳舞，而且需要花很多时间学习英语，所以我不太想参加舞蹈队。经不住老师的劝说，最后我还是参加了舞蹈队，并开始学习舞蹈。幸运的是，舞蹈老师很负责很认真的教学生。虽然我没有很多舞蹈基础，但是在老师的指导下学得很快。同时，由于忙于学习英语，我把舞蹈作为我唯一的娱乐，这样我学起来很认真，甚至我有时候留在舞蹈室进行额外的练习。经过一段时间的认真学习，我发现舞蹈其实并不困难，我开始怀疑我对自己不擅长舞蹈的判断。说不定我是一个跳舞高手，但害羞的我又不敢在公共场所试一试。随着我努力练习，我的舞跳得越来越好，信心也增强了。舞蹈老师要求我作为领舞者，站在队伍的前面。我特别高兴，但又感觉责任重大，我必须带领团队成员也把舞跳好。幸运的是，在最后的学校比赛中，我们赢得了全校第二名。这是我们班在跳舞比赛中取得的最好成绩。我的老师很高兴，请我们吃饭，他告诉我说，困难并不可怕，真正可怕的是不尝试就放弃了。
我认为老师说的非常有道理，经过这次舞蹈大赛，我发现正确面对困难的方式是要自信和勇敢。只要自信一点，你会发现困难并没有想象的那么难。尝试解决困难，勇敢和努力去面对，困难就会消失，你会取得最终的成功。如果我幸运的被宾夕法尼亚州立大学的录取，我想我会做很多方面的尝试。不仅要努力学习，而且我将积极参与课外活动，社团，商业公司实习等，锻炼提高自己的能力。
