Will someone please help me with my common app short essay (it's the one where you elaborate on your extracurriculars)? I'm having an extremely difficult time with it, especially since it's 1000 characters max. I don't know if this essay fully conveys who I am and how sand animation has improved me. Your help would be much appreciated!
I tell stories. Not in the conventional way, however. Not with spoken words or written sentences. No, I tell my stories through sand.
Sand animation has allowed me to experience the world through different perspectives. Each time I sit at my light board and begin to draw, I live vicariously through my characters. I've been a 1920's flapper whose greed eventually tears her apart at the seams, a 5-year-old Korean boy whose war torn country took away everything he ever had, and even a concierge clerk who's met people from all walks of the earth, but has never ventured further than her New York City apartment. As I transition from each scene to the next, my characters teach me how it feels to lose, desire, and have. They teach me how to take different perspectives from the same problem and find a solution from what I've learned. They teach me how to make bonds with individuals and how to connect with strangers. But most of all, they teach me how to create and use what they taught me to show to others.
I tell stories. Not in the conventional way, however. Not with spoken words or written sentences. No, I tell my stories through sand.
Sand animation has allowed me to experience the world through different perspectives. Each time I sit at my light board and begin to draw, I live vicariously through my characters. I've been a 1920's flapper whose greed eventually tears her apart at the seams, a 5-year-old Korean boy whose war torn country took away everything he ever had, and even a concierge clerk who's met people from all walks of the earth, but has never ventured further than her New York City apartment. As I transition from each scene to the next, my characters teach me how it feels to lose, desire, and have. They teach me how to take different perspectives from the same problem and find a solution from what I've learned. They teach me how to make bonds with individuals and how to connect with strangers. But most of all, they teach me how to create and use what they taught me to show to others.
