It's 10:00 PM at night. All I hear is the noise of incessant typing and occasional mouse clicks. I'm scouring Wikipedia like I normally do, rather than submitting to the tediousness of homework or the sweet allure of sleep. The thought of writing my college statements passes through my mind. How am I supposed to convince colleges that I am unique in less than 500 words? Obviously not through my grades or extracurriculars, everyone has those. I’m honestly not sure, but I do know that Al Capone's business card stated he was a used furniture dealer, and that Coca-Cola was originally green. I did not learn this in school. No, I learned it in my living room, through the man-made wonder of Wikipedia. I have spent many nights trading sleep for knowledge. Random knowledge but knowledge nonetheless. Put simply, I learn to live and I live to learn.
I suppose what I’m trying to say is that one of the qualities that I find most endearing about myself is my curiosity. Whether it is religion, race, gender, or age, I never fail to find something worth learning and absorbing. Attempting to find out why people think the way they do is my primary motive. I’m the type of person to ask, "Why?" any chance that I get. The world is very complicated, and I try to learn more about it one day at a time. How does my curiosity make me unique from the countless applicants competing for a spot in the class of 2013? Well for one, it’s intense, it’s a passion, and it’s a driving force in my life. Curiosity to me is not some passing thought, it drives me to learn without being told to learn, and it guarantees that I will learn for the sake of learning, not for some letters on a transcript.
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