The first biggest setback in my lifetime

I sometimes still think about the day when the results of high school entrance exam first came out. All the things, confidence, self-respect, honor, were all gone away from me in that day. It was really a surprise for me as my score had never been that low. Not believing that, I kept dialing and dialing the number which would tell me the score (although it will be shown on the website someday after) but the results never change.

That was really a blow to me. I couldn’t eat or drink but only stay in my room. My parents were so worried about me, so they asked me out and bought my favourite game. These things didn’t make any change to me. As I thought I had lost everything, what was the point if I played game at that time? I was so pessimistic about the future that I couldn’t even think of anything I should do.

Just after that, my father told me that I still got one more chance. I could go to the entrance test for the IB school in NSFZ. I signed up after I searched on the internet about IB. I knew this may be my last chance. Even though my score was not adquete, I still went there and talked to the teacher until I pursuaded her to give me a chance for the test.

As there were two parts of the tests which were Math and English, I had to revise those Math problems and English words again so many days after the final exam while nearly all of my classmates had already got their letters of admission. I turned off my cellphone in order not to get access to the “report” of how many of my classmates has been admited by the best high school in Nanjing. What I wanted was just a chance to show I was still capable after the great blow of the middle school test, so I tried harder and harder.

Finally, it came to the day of the test. I told myself I will definitely do a great job. Understanding all the Math concept and recognize all the words, the test was too easy for me.I finished the test before the time was called.

“Why did you choose IB?” The teacher asked.

“Because I want to go abroad and get eduacated different from chinese do” The student beside me answered.

“what about you?”

“ I am confident enough about myself studying abroad in the future and I had done a lot of research showing that it was really suitable for me.”

I answered the question in this way and I would continue to respond with the same answer. I understanded that it does not matter why something happened because we can not control our life all the time perfectly, but we could face the problem directly with our confidence and courage to break down it and go on with our own way.

Compare and Contrast outline

Laptop VS desktop (outline)

Thesis statement: laptop and desktop, although both are computers indeed with same functions and composition, have many characteristics that don’t share with each other.

1^st topic sentence: There is a clear difference between the size of laptop and that of desktop.

Supporting details: All the stuffs inside laptop are deliberately made to be smaller than those inside the desktop, e.g. internet card and audio card. Also, the desktop will leave a lot more space inside the “box” to enable the convection of the air so that it is not too hot in the “box”.

2^nd topic sentence: Because of the sizes and many other different characteristics, laptop and desktop satisfy different requirement from people.

Supporting details: laptop is used more by people like businessman who wants to move the computer from place to place to do presentation or receiving email, since most laptop can connect to wi-fi and they are small enough to be put into a suitcase. Desktop satisfies the customer who is able to sit at one place and research on something or maybe just staying at home.

3^rd topic sentence: due to different reasons, laptop is always more expensive than desktop, too.

Supporting details: as we know, laptop is more compact than desktop so that it is more difficult for people to produce. On the contrary, nearly everything in a desktop can be bought (at least in china) in a very low price, which is another reason for the low price of desktop.

Cause and Effect outline

Topic: what is the positive and negative side of using headphone?

Thesis statement: Too much using of headphone leads to a lot of negative effect including hearing problem, traffic accident and lower efficiency.

1^st topic sentence: High volume of headphone causes irreversible damage to our hearing ability.

Supporting details: Eardrum is actually very fragile and the long-term using of headphone with a high volume forces the eardrum to work at a high level. Eardrum will then become ineffective.

2^nd topic sentence: Using headphone to listen to music while walking on the street is the cause of many traffic accidents.

Supporting details: People cannot hear the sound from outside like the alarm of the cars clearly when they cross the street if they are using headphone. They will not even be aware that there may be a truck coming to them.

3^rd topic sentence: Using headphone during work or studying blocks the noise from outside while it will increase our efficiency.

Supporting detail: The noise from outside, not like the music coming from the headphone, will distract our attention e.g. we are always distracted by someone others talking about interesting things, and headphone will then make them impossible to coming in.

What is the sign of being mature?

Children always like to mimic what the adults do as they want to be looking more mature. This is a nature of us. Even for students in my age, we still tend to do things according to the way the older men do. However, sometimes we blow things up as we misunderstand the meaning of “mature”. Being “mature” is actually not only about knowing more people and being busy all the time, but also about how things really work in a rather microscope but not just having a brief idea, in which way we can do things more like a real “adult” but not only in terms of “age”.

Some students in our age consider making a lot of friends a state of being “mature”. They may not realize the friends they are making could have totally different perspective about everything. I am not saying that having some friends not like you is bad but it could indeed make many trouble for them. Our first goal for having a friend is we can talk to this person about how we feel about everything. If they cannot understand you, there is no possibility that they can give any thing useful back to you. What you should do actually is figuring out what kind of people they are in every small “group” around you and find the one that is mostly comfortable for you. In this way, you can have some true friends who can really listen to what you are saying.

Besides, some of us always feel like showing they are really busy because they think being busy meaning they are hardworking and self-controlled. However, the real intelligent people do not spend all their time on one thing but divide it to many things and they do everyone of them efficiently. Also, being busy about something having little value for you is not worth-well. You could even sleep instead at least it will give you some more energy.

In addition, some of my peers often talk about things that they only know a little with much more their own “prediction”. Many of these are about Economics or Politics. They think talking about these things make them mature. Actually, the immature idea they present is just the proof they are only kids.

In conclusion, being mature is not from the outside looking but the how deep the inside world of a person. Experienced elders see through all these things clearly. We are nothing but some kids and there is a lot more that we need to learn before becoming mature.