"What else makes you unique and colorful?"
I love food, plain food. Unlike most people who prefer salad with dressings, I believe salad dressings are merely what spoil the original flavor of simple mixed vegetables. From me, the dipping sauce station in any hot pot restaurant gets no attention, and steak sauce is totally unnecessary. And for me, boiled vegetables without any seasonings best satisfy my taste buds.
People call my taste "bland" or "boring" but I disagree. I love the natural, simple flavors of food. I actually think over-seasoned food is bland and boring. In doing so, the original flavors are masked, becoming identical. And once people become used to heavily seasoned food, these original flavors will seem too insipid for them to sense and appreciate.
A lot of people approach life in this way. They want to mask raw, unrefined experience and prefer to use others' over-interpreted experiences to understand their own. But in doing so their experience of life is limited. They end up creating a uniformity that they are then unable to break out of.
I welcome original flavors. Bland as they may seem, they in fact preserve the precious inherent diversity of food that is well worth appreciating. By tasting the original flavors, I reach directly into the real natural simplicity which the food is born with.
In my life, I want to open myself up to new experiences so as to show myself real and multiple perspectives, sweet or sour, fresh or bitter, without any masks.
Here is my first draft for my College of William and Mary essay. I'm supposed to write about 500 words but currently I've only got about 250. So could anyone give me suggestions on how I can expand it, like, where I can/should add anything, etc. Besides, any other comments are also welcomed.Thx a lot!Holt Educational Consultant - / 14,835 
4783 Jingxuan, you should try to combine your point of view about life with your love for bland food. You could try to balance out the discussion in a comparison essay. Yeah. I think that would work you could create a parallelism between why you find food bland and your observation about the way that people use the over interpreted experience of others. Explain how the masking is similar between the dipping station for food and the way people try to live vicariously through the life of others. Then explain how the bland food reflects your life. Explain how your bland life is actually exciting because of the originality in experiences that you have. Then explain how the bland food allows you to experience original flavors instead of masked flavors borrowed from a bottle. Kind of like the way social media allows people to experience an exciting life without actually having to experience it in physical form. Somehow, I see this essay as being more metaphorical representation of your life through food. That should easily fill 500 words. I hope you consider my suggestion for the improvement of your essay.
