大学申请作文：喜爱你做的事，做你喜爱的事（附英文原稿）

我连续两年制作闪亮裙装去创客大展（Maker Faire）展示；万圣节我给自己和妹妹缝制的装扮；我为高三舞会缝制的礼服裙；我用星巴克杯套和吸管缝制的实验裙装......如果我心仪的顶级时装秀告诉我，我不够好，不能进入决赛，所有的这些付出还值不值得？还有我在学校选修的3D艺术课；我过去几年来从未间断的每周一次的艺术课外班；我画的一摞摞时装设计稿......如果我心仪的顶级时装秀告诉我，我不够好，不能进入决赛，所有的这些付出还值不值得？

对我如此投入的热情所在，我知道成功之路并非轻而易达。正如罗马哲学家Seneca所说，“幸运是机会与准备的相遇。”FIDM（服装设计商业学院）能够帮助我做好准备。学校没有第一年蜻蜓点水般的基础课程，而是直接深入我所需的技能教育。我知道，没有基础课程年，一切将更具挑战，但我已经准备好挑战自我, 把我的创造力和技艺带入更高层级, 我期待成为服装设计师。

我知道FIDM将帮助我梦想成真。

英文原文：

Do what you love, and love what you do.

As Ray Bradbury once said, “Love what you do and do what you love.”  But the question for most people is: what do you really love? Where does your true passion lay? I’ve been questioning myself the same question for years and years, and the answer has only gotten more and more firm over time.

Let me start from the bottom. I am just this average girl born and raised in China. I had my elementary education in Beijing. In my Chinese elementary school, I was somewhat known as the kid on the school ballet dance team. But more so, known as someone who does kooky little DIYs and doodles during class. While the teachers always told me to focus more on study and less on creative projects, I always dreamed that one day I would become an artist of some sort.

As a best friend, I agreed. For the next year, I would constantly go over to Mary’s house and binge watch Project Runway with her. We would laugh about how some of the designs look like disasters, and gasp at many more gorgeous designs.

The show addiction with Mary went on for almost a year. At school, we would pass around little pieces of paper sketched with pretty garments; we would make inside jokes about the dresses; and we had the big dreams that one day we would become fashion designers. Little did I know, a huge change was waiting for me right after my 6th grade year.

At the end of 6th grade, I moved to this new foreign land called the United States of America. It was a huge transition for me: I spoke little English. The small defined world of intimate friend circle was taken away from me.

Not only was the language barrier a huge challenge, but also the shift in conflicting cultures. Unlike the situation in China where K-12 education is focused on compulsory classes only, electives take a good role in secondary education in the US where creativity and problem solving skills are nurtured. I took up woodshop and metal shop in 7th grade and learned how to incorporate multimedia into my creations.

In 8th grade, I tried sewing. That was a major turning point in my life. I realized that apart from hard media such as wood and metal, and I can also work out soft media such as fabric. My parents bought me a Singer and I plunged into something I really loved. From time to time, I imagined myself designing and sewing in a Project Runway show…...

Fast forward to June 22, 2016, one and a half month after applying to Project Runway Junior, the teen version of my dream show, and after the ecstasy of getting into semi-finals, after being informed on the spot of my Los Angeles interview that I was advanced into the next casting level, after receiving and signing off around 100 pages of show agreement and documents, and after ten days of absolute silence, I was “bombed” with an email smashing my dream of being the last 12 final contestants. I was down in the dumps. I was disappointed. I was heart-broken. For once, my dream seemed to be at the palm of my hands, but it slipped away.

For a whole afternoon, I lay in bed, lost in tears. The last three years of my endeavor raced through my mind like in a film: the high school InDesign fashion club I joined, where I became a Secretary and then Vice President; the many pieces I put into the annual InDesign Fashion Show; the Fashion Design summer camp for which I traveled afar and took at the London College of Fashion; the design internship I am now doing faraway from home in Maryland…… Were they all worth it now that my dream show told me I was not good enough for the finals? The light-up dresses I made and presented for two conservative years at the Maker-Faire; the costumes I made for myself and my sister for the past Halloweens, the prom dress I made for my Junior Prom; the experimental dresses I made of Starbucks straws and cup sleeves…...Were they all worth it now that my dream show told me I was not good enough for the finals? And there were the 3D Art elective I have been taking at school, the weekly Art after-school I never missed for all these years; the stacks of fashion sketches I drew; …… Were they all worth it now that my dream show told me I was not good enough for the finals?

For a passion that I am so committed to, I know that the road to success is not an easy one. As Seneca once said, "Luck is opportunity meeting preparation.” FIDM is a school that will help me further strengthen my preparation. The curriculum dives straight into the necessary skills I need rather than having a foundation year where we learn a little about everything. I understand that without a foundation year, everything will be more challenging. But I am ready to challenge myself and take both my creative and technical skills to the next level. I aspire to be a fashion designer working in the industry, and I know that FIDM will help my dream come true.

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