My name is Eric !

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Describe how your college education will allow you to achieve personal or professional goals. 

Stepping into my high school, the first object catching your eye is a stele on which our school motto is inscribed: Seeking Truth. Most people might consider “Truth” as the core word of this motto; however, I think the key of this logo should be “Seeking”. Through my high school experience, I feel more and more close to the conclusion that truth will never spontaneously come to you without any veneer; instead it can only be sought. I came to know that this was the most pragmatic theory of the college education when I recently completed an Activity Report for the student government I worked for.

The activity began from an unforgettable date, May 12^th, when the video show got a 5-second pause in our class, while an 8-degree earthquake causing a casualty of about 70,000 people overrode the whole city in Wenchuan, China. Just on the second day of the disaster, I submitted a draft plan to student government in the name of the minister of Public Relation Department and an emergency meeting was permitted on which I publicized my plan for a whip-round in the form of an auction. As the Moral Education Department had persuaded the Board that this would be a rare chance to teach students commiseration and unity, the plan was fully supported by all other departments. Thus, after only 1 week, the auction took place, and the student government successfully raised about RMB 20,000, which was enough to buy 100 camps for the disaster area. The Board was quite satisfied, by this data, and requested me to write an Activity Report in which claimed that “this Moral Education was extremely a triumph which guided students to the Gate of Love…”

But I knew something was wrong, because I was a student and I could thus see something the Board couldn’t see and feel something the Board couldn’t feel--I saw some schoolmates larking when standing in silent tribute, I heard others badinaging with the people in the disaster area—then I guessed that perhaps my schoolmates didn’t care the catastrophe at all, but instead all they cared was the auction itself, nothing more. I got an idea from a school in the suburbs, which hadn’t enough outlays to hold an auction, but used another more economical and simple way: put a large, white board in the school hall, and allowed students to stick their wishes to the disaster area on the board. In only 2 weeks, there was almost no blank area on the board—almost every student “donated” their wishes! I submitted another plan and asked for only about 1% of the expense of the auction. The next day a similar board appeared in my school hall, but when I retreated it 1 month later, only 43 wishes were “given”. Since then, I’ve tested my guess.

I couldn’t write the Activity Report and read it in the auditorium, because I couldn’t lie to my schoolmates. From the very beginning of my job in Student Government, my advisors kept reminding me “never lie to your schoolmates, because 1 lie can make you lose your job”. So instead an Activity Report to the Board, I submitted another plan, a plan about volunteer, which instructed my schoolmates to become volunteer teachers of the schools built in Shanghai which ensconce the children of disaster area.

Even the most accurate datas can lie, so I never fully believe the appearance. Only by seeking truth can I come to know that we students living in the downtown may be richer than those who living in the suburbs, but they can be much “richer” in moral and mental field than us. And I know that “Seeking Truth” should never simply become a memory, but must be turned into a habit of my life. If the Volunteer Plan is “a triumph which guided students to the Gate of Love”, I will have to speak in the auditorium again, and then I will say: “It is Seeking Truth that can guide us to the Gate of Richness—both in mental and monetary field!”