【正文】 ge. The opportunities for studying Chinese were very limited, however. At 22,I had saved up some money and now decided to go live in Asia to experience a Chinese culture firsthand, and to learn how t o speak Mandarin Chinese. My desire to go to Asia was spawned by a genuine i nterest in reconciling differences I found between Eastern and Western cultu res. Similarly, I wanted to pursue this experience because it would provide me with a unique opportunity to broaden the perspective I had on the world a s a whole. This is how I ended living in Taichung, Taiwan and visiting mainl and China. When I arrived in Taiwan, I remember getting off the airplane and hearing everyone speaking Chinese. Everything I saw and heard was unfamilia r to me. Seeing a different world made a huge impact on me。 I want to make it my life. In addition to maintaining a high GPA throughout my college career, and mak ing the Dean抯 list several times, I have also worked hard as a supervisor a t Brooks Pharmacy for the past five years. Working my own way through colleg e not only demonstrates my determination to gaining a high quality education and the seriousness with which I treat academics, but also attests to my le adership ability, maturity, and responsibility, both as a supervisor and as a student at the University of Rhode Island. My primary goal in applying to your graduate program is to prepare myself for a career in forensic anthrop ology. Interested in furthering the current body of research and in improvin g techniques used in the identification of human remains, I am very mitte d to pursuing forensic anthropology and believe your graduate program in ant hropology will provide me with an excellent foundation in the area of physic al and forensic anthropology. With a Masters and ., I will be well prepa red to lead a very promising career. While I have no doubt the program will push me to my limits, I am confident that I can face the rigorous challenges posed by graduate study and thrive under the demanding environment that adv anced studies entail. From my transcripts, you will see that not only am I a wellbalanced student, I actually thrive in rigorous, upper level courses, courses akin to graduatelevel courses. Armed with the confidence that I can excel at difficult courses, I believe I can achieve the highest level of su ccess and satisfaction by taking the most demanding graduate program availab le. In addition to my ability to excel in the classroom, I have demonstrate d a proficiency in all aspects of conducting research. Research has bee a fundamental part of my college career, and I hope it will bee the primar y ponent of my future. As a sophomore at the University of Rhode Island, I designed a research project entitled Grooming and Affiliative Behavior in Three Species of NonHuman Primates under the guidance of Dr. Su Boatright Horowitz in the Psychology Department at URI. My research proposal gained a pproval from the Institutional Care and Use Committee at URI and at the Roge r William Park and Zoo where the three species of nonhuman primates (Gibbon s, Sakis, and Lemurs) included in my study are kept. In addition to writing a successful research proposal, I also wrote and received a small funds gran t from the University of Rhode Island in order to conduct my research. By be ing intimately involved in every aspect of research, from proposal and grant writing to data collection and analysis, I have learned what it takes to be a researcher, but more than that, I have learned how fulfilling and interes ting research can the spring of 2005,I will be presenting my results a t a poster presentation at the University of Rhode Island, and am planning t o eventually publish my findings. Not only has this experience shown me that I am capable of excelling in conducting research, but it has also allowed m e to develop a love for the hands on learning that is so crucial to successf ul research. In my final semester at URI, I will be participating in an ongo ing research project concerning brain function and attention span under the direction of Dr. Dominic Valentino, a professor in the psychology department at URI. This project will undoubtedly further advance my academic skills an d reinforce my passion for anthropology is more than just my primary area of education。 I may have known it all along, but I needed tim e to work up the courage, to make myself determined to succeed. I informed m y mother and father of my decision to move to New York and pursue film, and I saw disappointment in their eyes. Despite my mother抯 crying and pleading and my father抯 clear dissatisfaction, I quit my job, rented a UHaul, and h eaded New York, I took out a loan and signed up for the New York Fil m Academy’s twomonth intensive program. Not applying any of the risk manage ment skills I learned as a financial analyst, I was going for broke, either I would make it, or I would go down in flames. The first day I had my hands on a camera and by the end of the program, I had written, directed, edited a nd produced four films. Both thrilled and humbled by my experience, I got a glimpse of exactly how difficult the craft of filmmaking is. After two month s of dedicated hard work, I had not even scratched the surface of what en passes being a filmmaker, but I had reinforced my love for filmmaking. At this point, I knew I needed additional education to acplish my goals。 I needed to truly push my creative and intellectual limits if I ever I were to master the craft of filmmaking. After seeing the quality, diversity, and pr ofessionalism of NYU graduate student films at a screening last spring, I kn ew NYU could provide me with exactly the skills I find the idea of pa cking 100 strangers in a dark room to watch a piece of film pass through a p rojector to be an incredibly p