Explain an interest you have pursued outside your academic classes (either independently or through a student organization, volunteering, part-time work, sport, playing a musical instrument, etc). What knowledge or skills did you gain as a result?

Unlike other students being interested in outdoor activities or video games after school, I always come to the Vietnam history museum to immerse myself in antiques and chronological sequence.

Four times a week, I visited there alone. I like quiet to observe and ponder on historic objects, which seems to bring me back to the past when my ancestors had lived in.

The main reason why I have a passion for history is the wonderful thread connecting the past to the present and future. In other words, things that occur in the past can exert an impact on the present, and the present is a contributing factor influencing the future’s destiny. For example, my father always tells me that: ‘If Vietnam had not won the US in 1975, our country would have been divided into two small countries like North and South Korea today.”

Thanks to this interest, I realize the truth related to the law of causality that all the splendid things I enjoy now are achievements of my efforts in the past. Also, it is the beginning of better things in the future. The shape of our future depends on how we have formed it in the past and present.