Topic question:
Beyond your impressive academic credentials and extracurricular accomplishments, what else makes you unique and colorful?
We know that nobody fits neatly into 500 words or less, but you can provide us with some suggestion of the type of person you are. Anything goes! Inspire us, impress us or just make us laugh. Think of this optional opportunity as show and tell by proxy and with an attitude, but please restrict your submission to what will fit on one sheet of paper.
My Response:
It worries me that I am holed up in my room on Christmas Day trying to complete a college application. But the more I think about it, I'm beginning to realize that I'm not in this position because I have put off the process. Admittedly, though, I am a professional when it comes to procrastination. Today I'm in this position because, as innocent as it may sound the question "What...makes you unique and colorful?" is extremely difficult to answer. There are so many things I could discuss in response to the prompt, but none of them seem to provide a good idea of who I really am.
I could easily say I am unique because of the way I dress. I have unconsciously crafted a unique style, that is apparently very distinct. My family and friends seem to know what I like better than I do, just from observing me on a day to day basis.
I could also say I am unique because I have a kind heart that gets me into trouble. I try very hard to please people and make others happy, sometimes to a fault. I can inadvertently put other's needs before mine. Or I could discuss my perpetual indecisiveness that drives my best friend crazy. I'm not sure why, but I hate to make decisions regarding where we should eat dinner or what movie we should see.
I might say I am colorful because of my Hispanic heritage. I grew up surrounded by my mother's side of the family, a large and loving one, half of which came from a Hispanic background. I learned to love tamales, biscochito cookies and my great grandmother's tales of growing up on a ranch.
I also could call myself colorful because of my questionable organizational skills when it comes to my room at home. The mess I call my bedroom has, over the years, become the bane of my mothers existence. She has tried many times to teach me her unnaturally organized ways, unfortunately with no success. She calls it a disaster, I call it organized chaos.
However, none of these things gives my reader a true sense of my personality. Each may be important to my identity, but on their own they are incomplete pictures.
I am so many different things, and all if these things make me unique. Someone may have the same style as I do. Someone else may be a Hispanic teenage girl living in Virginia. Someone else may be just as indecisive as I am. But it the combination of these things that makes me unique. In the end, I think this is why I find myself in this position. I have struggled and struggled to find one witty, tear-wrenching, or insightful topic that encompasses my personality and sets me apart from the rest. But that is impossible to do becaus one topic will never be able to describe who I really am.
