153. What has been your most profound or surprising intellectual experience? (Duke University)
People's catcalls grew louder with approaching time for the show. Organized by 11th graders every year, the Student Talent Show of our schools has great expectations from all the students from grade 7 to grade 12. After the process of voting, our grade had decided to make the theme a 'spy' theme. This common and overused theme brought our grade pressure to make everything to be perfect in order to prove our class' creativity, co=operation, and reputation. And here was the show about to begin.
Our Class had many discussions about this show: decorations, transitions, events, and so on. We thought about typical spy movies, which everyone in our school could guess with the word 'spy.' Aware that people think about guns and groups of spies, we wanted to come up with an idea that wouldn't bore people. We knew that if things weren't super good, people would be disappointed.
People's catcalls grew louder with approaching time for the show. Organized by 11th graders every year, the Student Talent Show of our schools has great expectations from all the students from grade 7 to grade 12. After the process of voting, our grade had decided to make the theme a 'spy' theme. This common and overused theme brought our grade pressure to make everything to be perfect in order to prove our class' creativity, co=operation, and reputation. And here was the show about to begin.
Our Class had many discussions about this show: decorations, transitions, events, and so on. We thought about typical spy movies, which everyone in our school could guess with the word 'spy.' Aware that people think about guns and groups of spies, we wanted to come up with an idea that wouldn't bore people. We knew that if things weren't super good, people would be disappointed.
No one except our class had a clue of what was inside the auditorium. Counting down ten seconds, I, as the governor of the class, opened the door into a phone booth which led to our auditorium. I could hear people's sighs of admiration at the decorations we put up on the mall and the stage: the gunracks, a guitar coming out of a gun as a bullet, masks, and walky-talky. Though these were all the things one could think of for our theme, our decorations were very unexpected with our new designs. Our ideas were unique because we matched them up with our transitions; we made a play (script) about a spy completing his mission during the show.
After all the events, all the students clapped and screamed in order to praise our efforts. We were really proud of ourselves as a class, being able to organize the most creative Student Talent Show our school has ever had. We used old ideas, yet in new styles. Shaping something unique out of already made clay is what I believe as being creative. And this reminds me every time I'm given a task that if I put my effort to my idea, commitment, and dedication, I will surely get awarded for it.
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