Personal Statement (1) As is known to us, family education is the first, the basis of every education, and the first position of people's socialization. I always feel lucky to belong to a family that always places high values of education. My grandparents are both teachers and devoted their whole lives into the magnificent cause of education. Chinese old saying says: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. That is the initial education concept I got access to and my curiosity for education germinated ever since. During my learning process, I meet various teachers with different teaching styles and enthusiastic mind for education. I genuinely perceived the significant role that education plays in human development and social advancement. The renowned American educator Malcolm Forbes once said, “The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.” In my perspective, education, as my applied graduate major, is not only to impart unknown knowledge, but also to cultivate more social responsibility undertakers with a sound mind and noble personality. It is the lofty objective of education that fulfilled my passion for it. University of Jinan (UJN), my undergraduate university, may not be a top one in China, but it still provided me with good learning environment that is necessary for undergraduate study and here I received rigorous and systematic trainings. Upon entering UJN, driven by my consistent diligence and assiduousness, I embarked on a challenging journey to obtain professional knowledge, enhance research ability and refine my character. Of all subject courses, I focused my study on Education, Psychology, Occupational Skills for Teacher, Education technology，Introduction to Linguistics, Methods of Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language etc., which would definitely give me solid base for future study. In addition, I even paid extra attention to relevant disciplines, which I believe has its own advantage in further study. I spent large quantities of time to study and my unremitting efforts got paid off. My undergraduate overall GPA reached 3.8, ranking me the 17th among 124 competent fellow students. My outstanding academic score and initiative have been confirmed in forms of numerous awards and scholarships, like First-Class Scholarship of UJN, Honorable Student of UJN for several times, to name a few.