There is nothing fun about “fun questions.” And fun questions do not reduce stress.
Some high-pressured colleges have introduced "fun questions” to make the application process less stressful. If an application asks the applicant what he or she does for fun, don’t be fooled into
writing anything that makes you sound lazy, passive, a wannabe, a follower, a partier. Make sure you stress constructive activities that can be accommodated by the university to which you are applying.

所謂“有趣的問題”其實并不有趣，而且絲毫不能為你的申請減壓。不少競爭激烈的大學推出了“有趣的問題”使申請過程看似輕松一些，但是，當一份申請材料問你平時喜歡做什么“有趣”的事的時候，千萬不要隨意寫一些會使自己看起來懶惰，被動，自以為是的，人云亦云，或者就喜歡醉生夢死的事。一定要強調(diào)你參加的是會被申請大學所提倡的有建設性的活動。

In previous applications, Penn has asked, “Tell us what you like to do for fun." MIT asked, "Tell us about something you do simply for the pleasure of it." Harvey Mudd asked, "What fun, cool, or interesting things about you won't fit into the categories on the application? Feel welcome to be clever or funny."

在以往的申請中，賓大曾經(jīng)問過“告訴我們你喜歡做什么有趣的事。”麻省理工問過“告訴我們你做過的純屬喜愛的事。”哈維瑪?shù)麓髮W問過：“你做過什么有趣或者很酷的事在申請表上無法體現(xiàn)出來？請盡量地發(fā)揮你的聰明才智。”

If anything, these Band-Aid questions bring greater stress to the applicants with whom I have spoken, as they struggle to figure out what fun they should speak of. After all, they observe that everyone they know who has been admitted to these colleges had no time for “fun” in high school, having pulled many all-nighters and faced week-ends and vacations filled with homework. In order to be seriously considered for these colleges, one must ace many time-consuming AP or IB courses一some students take five or six per year-which eats up all time for fun.


這些貌似有助于緩解申請壓力的問題其實反而增加了申請人的壓力，因為他們拼命想猜出錄取委員會到底想要什么樣的答案。實際上，根據(jù)這些學生的經(jīng)驗，他們沒看到自己周圍已經(jīng)被心儀院校錄取的同學曾經(jīng)有時間做過什么“有趣”的事。相反，他們看到的是這些人經(jīng)常熬夜，連周末和假期都堆滿了作業(yè)。情有可原，因為如果想被那些頂尖的大學考慮，高中生需要考出很多的AP或者IB的高分 （有些學生一年要選五到六門這類課程，哪里還有時間干別的？）---待續(xù)。

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