32弥补科研成果不足（经济类）-改后稿.doc

PERSONAL STATEMENT
by Zhao Haihong
原作者经济系本科毕业后没有从事本专业的工作,现在想去国外接着学经济,要把资格和动机讲清楚不容易。文科学生相对科研成果要少一些,但在这篇文章中,通过对他自己编刊物,听著名教授厉以宁的课等等的描写,比较有效地弥补了这一不足,更全面地反映了作者生活的各个层次。这篇文章有些用词较讲究,读者或可借鉴。
A graduate from a management program who has worked in sales and promotion for four years, I now would like to pick up my academic career as an economist. By so doing, I hope that I can eventually play a leadership role in China's ongoing economic reforms.
I did my undergraduate studies at the Beijing-based Northern University, one of the country's top institutions of higher learning. I entered into this university in 1990 on the strength of my performance in the National University Entrance Examinations, held once every year to screen high school graduates for post-secondary education. My scores in these exams were so great that they constituted the highest total in my county, which made me something of a celebrity in my whole province.
With my education at the Northern, I was solidly grounded in the fundamentals. Studying industriously, I had an overall GPA of , the fifth highest in our department. My GPA in the courses of my major was even higher, standing at . I was granted the "Excellent Studies Prize" in 1991 and the "Outstanding Undergraduate Student Scholarship" by the Dept. of Management in 1992 and 1993.
I did not limit myself to academic studies at the university. Campus lif