Undergraduate / MIT essay. A time you used your creativity. [8]

I'm an international student. Thank you for your help.

Prompt: Tell us about a time you used your creativity. This could be something you made, a project that you led, an idea that you came up with, or pretty much anything else. (*) (200-250 words)

When I was 8, the most favorite game in my place was playing with paper toys. All children in my neighborhood knew the way to make toys from characters in many manga books we read. We use a carbon paper to copy images of the characters into a blank sheet. After pasting the sheet onto a piece of cardboard, we cut the images out. In this way, we could create many heroes from Dragon Balls or monsters from YuGiOh. However, since the toys were 2D models, they could only look at a fixed direction, making the game awkward. For example, if a character was facing left and we wanted him to run right, we could not turn him around but let him run backward!

That problem was hard to deal with. There was a long time when we used to laboriously draw reversed images on the other side of the toys by our pen (we could not use carbon paper because it could only make the same images which have no use in this case). This method was also inconvenient and difficult for people who did not have any painting ability like me.

Finally, one day while copying a dragon from a book, a question popped up in my mind: why did the image form only on the underlying sheet rather than on the book? Then I found that the carbon paper had something like ink on only one side and by this notice, I could use it to create a reversed image even simultaneously with the copy. I put below the page of the book a carbon paper following by two blank sheets. And below these blank sheets I put another carbon paper so that the "ink" side of it facing the sheets. As a result, I had one copy on the above sheet and the reserved version of it on the below sheet.

Though I made many things later and this method may seem trivial to someone, I always consider it my first discovery. And it is the most memorable because it was the first time I could contribute something significant to our activities and see the children in my neighborhood joyfully spread it while talking to each other:"Son found the new method".

PS:Son is my name.
375words, I am so worried about that