­　　美國大學申請ESSAY的寫作一直是申請者們關注的熱點問題。美國大學的申請ESSAY提供給申請者留下的思考空間非常廣闊，基本上不會有什么限制，ESSAY給了我們一個環境，那么怎么去“種”這朵“花”，那是你自己的事情了。

­　　然而，很多學生依然拘泥于修飾，這可能跟小學以來養成寫作習慣于贊美的緣故，華而不實的居多，那么如何準備美國大學申請ESSAY？不妨先進行角色轉換，假如自己是一個美國人，美國人習慣對人進行贊美，但解決問題或者進行敘事論述，他們確實喜歡的是直接，喜歡論據。下面，跟著我們一起來欣賞一篇非常有創意的ESSAY。

­　　范文：A Boy’s Firsts

­　　The boy is such a common boy. He is so common that only acquaintedfriends can notice him among the crowd; he is so common that he does not changehis girlfriend one time per month, just as those playboys do; and he is socommon that his daily life is no more special than those who listen to rock n’roll, bet for soccer games and seldom clean their rooms.

­　　However, the boy is somewhat special.

­　　He usually thinks that, his experience and personal achievements,along with his own happiness and grievances, are enough for him to be unique,though he does not have a face as good-looking as Brad Pitt or Keanu Reeves, orwhoever.

­　　First Award

­　　It was such a surprising gift for a 12-year-old boy to know that hehad won the first prize in the national mathematics competition. The boyclutched the certification and laughed like a sun-flower blooming in a springmorning. He had spent three months preparing for that competition and hadlost5kgweight but he was very happy, as happy as you could imagine. Enjoyingthe pace of enterprising, he began to believe “No pain no gain” that afternoon.

­　　First Setback

­　　Huddling up in the quilt crying, the boy was introspecting himself.For his haughtiness after achieving the second prize in the National PhysicsCompetition, he deserved the rank of last 5% in the final examination of7thgrade. Wiping up the tears, he set himself a promise of being humble andsober. The boy kept the promise and became a young man of great maturity.

­　　First cooking

­　　“Quite a tough work.” The boy said to himself, smearing soap on a blister caused by theburning oil. But a small blister never could stop him from doing his “cookingresearch”. The boy stood in front of the gas-stove again, holding apancaketurner in his left hand, he was trying to find out the correct time of addingsalt and the appropriate amount of other flavorings. After so many failures, hefelt that it was not a simple task of cooking out palatable meals, nut achallenge of surpassing himself. When the boy finally finished working one anda half hours later, he put a sweet smile on his dirty face. The boy wrote inhis diary, “keep working and you’ll win.”

­　　First Love

­　　At the age of 16, the boy fell in love with a smart girl. Eatingice-cream with the girl in the ice-cream bar at the street, walking on theboulevard hand in hand, cycling her home and kissing goodbye, he regarded loveas the holy thing in his life. Thus, the boy demonstrates a love from heart; hecares everyone nearby and wants them to be beatific with their families. Aspeople say, an angelic soul.

­　　First Job

­　　The extremely hot summer holiday of 16, the boy was excited when hegot a job at the local train station as a ticket-taker. First working day, theboy got up so early that when he arrived at the station, the previousticket-taker was still on his work, in astonishment of the boy’s appearance.But the ticket-taker did not know that, the boy was just so eager as to get onthe job to show that he had grown up.

­　　Soon a common college student will he be. A common one that will beassiduous in class and passionate in the basketball court; that will make everyeffort to run for the Chairman of the Student Union but may still face failure;that is no more special than those who spend half a day in libraries and forgetto go to dinner when do researches in labs. But somehow he will be a uniquecollege student, because he will have his own way of fulfilling his dreams.

­　　And as you may know, the boy is me.

­　　一口氣看完了嗎？那么我們來品一品它：

­　　一、標題：

­　　也許，這個標題不算非常特別，但是它引人注目，一個男孩的第一次，可能我們想到更多的是一些“第一次”，聯想到我們自己的“第一次”，興趣自然就產生了!

­　　二、結構：

­　　結合了“第一次”的標題核心，下面分別以男孩生活、學習及工作中的各個第一次進行闡述，涉及的面比較全，包括感情，給人的感覺非常豐富且完整。

­　　三、措詞：

­　　措詞比較灑脫，拖泥帶水，既看出一個青年人的活力，又從每個“一次”中發現這個BOY其實不是一般的BOY，他有著一種思想叫做執著與專一！

­　　四、思路：

­　　學習——生活——感情——工作，這看起來更像一個循環，從學習到工作，中間穿插著我們的日常生活和感情生活，這就是一個完整的人，一個完整的體現！

­　　這是一篇非常有創意的essay范文，美國大學申請ESSAY的寫作思維要開闊，要創新，但是在實際寫作中，我們中國的很多學生卻是以過往的過眼云煙式的表面化寫作居多，A Boy’s Firsts這篇ESSAY我們就看不到那些虛華的痕跡，這值得我們借鑒。