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为什么聪明人很聪明？因为他们会问问题。问对问题，就能找对方向，反之，从来没有问题，或者不会问问题，则就迷迷茫茫地过。在美国名校申请路上，招生官往往最看重我们本身的特质。怎样的特质能让自己脱颖而出，或者到底怎样的自己才够特别够聪明能打动那阅人无数的招生官呢？这篇文章让你 学会提问，变得聪明 也许能给你带去点收获呢。废话不说，看文。

Going to Harvard means I have the very unique opportunity to be around a lot of smart people. Now, when I say smart people, I don t mean that guy who always wins trivia night. I mean, blazingly intelligent individuals who are regarded as the pre-eminent scholars in their field. It s pretty amazing to pass by Turing Award winners and leading political science scholars grabbing a sandwich.

Bore I go anywhere, let me make one thing clear: I am not one of these smart people. This is perhaps the biggest lesson I ve learned after 3 years here. There is an absolutely incredible number of smart people in the world, and I can name a whole bunch of students and professors alike who I know for a fact I will never ever ever be as smart as, no matter how hard I try. But honestly, that s okay -I don t need to be (and perhaps that s a story for another day). What that does mean, though, is that I would be doing a disservice to the ever-so-generous Financial Aid Office if I didn t learn from them. I don t mean learning in a lecture hall, but I rer to a more personal sense of learning. What is it that separates a smart person from me? How do they conduct themselves? What drives them?

I can of course make no authoritative claims here, but I have noticed one overarching theme among smart people: they ask questions. When someone explains something new to me, I ll usually just nod my head like I know what they re talking about. If I don t understand something, I ll just Google it later. After all, I don t want this person to think I m a moron. Smart people are different. If they don t understand something, or even if they think they understand something, they ll ask questions. I distinctly remember, as an immature and perhaps arrogant freshman, a guest lecture in one of my classes. After explaining what I thought was a straightforward concept, the guest lecturer asked if anyone had any questions. Looking around the room, every student simply nodded, indicating everything was clear. A question, however, came from a tenured professor who had undoubtedly been exposed to the material bore. At the time, I thought nothing of it, and perhaps even thought that I was smarter than the professor because I understood a concept he/she didn t. Now, I am confident that this professor did not ask the question just to make the guest lecturer feel better, to start a discussion, or anything else. The intonation of the question and the intensity with which the professor listened to the response dinitively suggested that the professor s question was genuine, and that the answer was of great importance.

Based on the research and findings of so many of the students and professors here, it s clear that this trend is no accident. Not only do smart people ask questions when they don t understand something, but they also ask questions when the world thinks it understands something. Smart people challenge the very limit of human understanding, and push the envelope of what s possible farther than many people would argue it s meant to be pushed. Smart people don t take claims at face value, and smart people don t rest until they find an explanation they re comfortable accepting and understanding.

Smart people challenge everything. (You know who taught me that? A smart person.)

Maybe someday, people will call me a smart person. For now, I m going to keep asking them questions.

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