3. For the second short response, we asked you to consider the world around you. Now, consider the world within. Taste in music, food, and clothing can make a statement while politics, sports, religion, and ethnicity are often defining attributes. Are you a vegetarian? A poet? Do you prefer YouTube or test tubes, Mac or PC? Are you the drummer in an all-girl rock band? Do you tinker? Use the richness of your identity to frame your personal outlook. (200-250 words)
As long as I can remember I have been a certified nerd. While children were begging their parents for action figures and Barbie's I was begging my parents for books. I remember staying up all night as a child reading the latest Harry Potter novels and eagerly awaiting to discuss the novel with my fellow nerdy MIT STEM summer program buddies. As I got older I began to replace my love for Harry with Charles Dickens (still a Harry fan at heart). I can recall spending my entire summer vacation reading and rereading A Tale of Two Cities. Now I find myself longing for those days when I had time to just sit down relax and read. Coming home at 4:30 from a long day of school and after school activities I prefer to nap and get started on the homework. I look forward to English class and the assignment of a new novel. While my classmates sigh in sync I await to get started on the latest novel. I would much rather stay in and find myself in a new world within a novel than go out. The best thing about reading is that it allows you to escape from reality and whatever you are going through to somewhere quite enjoyable. While my friends praise sites like Sparknotes I dislike them because they defeat the purpose of reading the novel. They can be helpful after reading the novel but I would never recommend it as a replacement. My friends on the other hand would disagree...
As long as I can remember I have been a certified nerd. While children were begging their parents for action figures and Barbie's I was begging my parents for books. I remember staying up all night as a child reading the latest Harry Potter novels and eagerly awaiting to discuss the novel with my fellow nerdy MIT STEM summer program buddies. As I got older I began to replace my love for Harry with Charles Dickens (still a Harry fan at heart). I can recall spending my entire summer vacation reading and rereading A Tale of Two Cities. Now I find myself longing for those days when I had time to just sit down relax and read. Coming home at 4:30 from a long day of school and after school activities I prefer to nap and get started on the homework. I look forward to English class and the assignment of a new novel. While my classmates sigh in sync I await to get started on the latest novel. I would much rather stay in and find myself in a new world within a novel than go out. The best thing about reading is that it allows you to escape from reality and whatever you are going through to somewhere quite enjoyable. While my friends praise sites like Sparknotes I dislike them because they defeat the purpose of reading the novel. They can be helpful after reading the novel but I would never recommend it as a replacement. My friends on the other hand would disagree...