2013年10月23日 星期三

Analytical essay of myself --- Factor of Choosing Bioengineering Major

Topic: Analytical essay of myself ---
Factor of Choosing Bioengineering Major

Name: MAK Ying Kit, Kelvin

Student ID: 53554852

Word Count: 610




It is always a frustrating issue for every freshman in university to select a suitable major. For me, my choice was bioengineering and I made this decision based on the following reasons.

        My experience in childhood absolutely had one of the greatest influence to my. I developed my interest of Biology when I was small. My family members used to take me to visit different Country Parks with them. During the visit, I could have a close contact and observation with the nature, such as learning how to identify different species of plants, animals, etc. This provided many opportunities for me to basically understand about different forms of life in the ecosystem of Hong Kong. Besides, my parents used to buy many biological book for me to read, it allows me .It really fascinated me in my childhood, and also leaded me to have further study in the aspect of biology.

        In my senior secondary school years, I chose to study the elective of Biology. This was because I wished to build up some fundamental knowledge before getting into related Major in University. In my senior academic years of secondary school, I got a lot of practical laboratory experience by performing different experiments and I kept getting a satisfactory result in Biology. In the DSE public examination, I got a level 5 in Biology; it motivated me to have further investigation in Biology and proved that I am capable of it.

In order to turn my interest into my future career, the Bioengineering Major was definitely my first consideration. Subjectively speaking, Biology explored a new world which was fascinating to me. For example, the mechanisms of cells, the classification system of organisms, the origin of life, etc. From the microscopic world to the whole ecosystem of the earth, this indeed raised my curiosity. Study of the Bioengineering Major will help me find the method of make use of the biological knowledge to contribute to the society.

On the other hand, I discovered that I have interest in using computer when I reached the stage of youngsters, as my parents bought me a desktop computer. In my senior secondary school years, I took the elective of Information and Technology, in order to examine my interest in computer science. However, I found myself addicted in using computer for entertainment and lacked of interaction with my families. The misusage of computer made me to know the fact that what truly attracted me were the computer games, but not the knowledge of computer science. Therefore, I chose to drop the elective of Information and Technology at the end of form 4 secondary school year because I wanted to be more concentrated in studying biology. Furthermore, my mathematics score in secondary school is only average, and I only get level 4 in mathematics of DSE examination. Additionally, I took no extended module of mathematics. It reflected that my mathematics and calculating ability is not my best aspect.


Among different options, most majors provided by the college of science and engineering for engineering students required students to have deep understanding of physics and mathematics. For instance, Civil Engineering or Electronic and Communication Engineering, needed to work on a lot of complicated calculation and programming, which was actually not what I like and my strength.

To conclude, my final selection will be the bioengineering major. The main factor was interest of Biology since childhood, which could be the biggest motivation of studying. Besides, I had no advantages in mathematics and little interest in computer science, bioengineering which required less calculation would be suitable for me. Therefore, I decided to go for bioengineering as my next year major.


Descriptive essay- A Person I know

Topic: Descriptive essay- A Person I know

Name: MAK Ying Kit, Kelvin

Student ID: 53554852

Word Count: 474





           I stepped into the classroom and she caught my eyes at first sight. There was an extraordinary girl sitting at the corner of the classroom. She propped her chin with her hand slightly and elegantly. The delicacy of her becomes even more beauteous under the refraction of sunlight and her face, however, blurred by the strong light in the same way, showing another kind of beauty, beauty of dreamily. The Shiny brown short hair was perfectly cut; the pale skin was then bare, stood out against the blue school uniform. I believe it was the most beautiful creature of the world.  

           The beautifulness of her and my curiosity made me forgot to take my eyes of her. I took a sit behind her and starred on her back. She run her left hand through her hair, a unique smell radiated from her hair when the winds blow, it smelled like lavender in blossom, tasted like the sweetest honey, leading me to fall into infinite imagination, nearly drive me into trance.

I cannot see clearly of her face until the moment of the girl turned around. When I looked closer, she was distinctive from others. The bangs of her black hair were untidy, some were straight, some were curly, but surprisingly did not show abrupt. I was astonished by her arbitrary impression. Few red little pimples were most suitable decorations of her snowy face, makes she looked even lovelier than anything I have seen. She looked at me; a pair of black iris was like the universe, exuding the attractiveness of unexpected, unknown and mysterious. I cannot resist the temptation of looking through the hole inside, like a whirlpool that sucks my mind and souls into the pupil of her eyes. I feasted my eyes on this beautiful scene, without blinking for a single time.

A voice came from nowhere broke the silence, waked me up from the intoxication. She started a conversation. “Hi, I am Gina, what’s your name?” She said with a calm voice. Every word she pronounces is beating on my heart like a drum, her voice was not a resounding, fragile or soft one, but it’s comfortable to be listened. “Hi, I am Kelvin.” I said. “Nice to meet you” She said joyfully with a smile. The curve of her lips is perfectly designed when she smiles. Her smile was powerful as the strongest virus, infected me with her amusement.


           Regardless of the short conversation, it initiated our friendship. We started to understand each other every day in the school life. Through my observation, she was not sociable or talkative as she kept silence most of the time, but she has a lot of inspiration and she was creative that always comes up with unpredictable and inscrutable concepts, and expresses the ideas by her stylish drawings. That’s why she was fascinating.