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College Admissions Essay: The End Of Eternity

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I take a sheet of paper and prepare my drawing board. Today, I am going to design a supersonic airplane.

I stare at this blank sheet of paper. It is so white, waiting to be given form and life. New thoughts are flooding in my brain. I wait - wait for the ideas to accumulate, become clear, and finally pour out. In the next second, those ideas manipulate the pencil in my hand to express what my brain has conceived.

I pick up the pencil and draw the first line.

When I was a kid, I was one of the many kids who were fascinated by cars and planes; but unlike my peers, I have always had the desire to design those machines myself. I started creating technical drawings for machines when I was six. Many afternoons after school, while my peers were …show more content…

Nobody can tell what is it now, but I know that those black lines will become the plane's cabin soon.

My creativity is not only expressed by design but also immerses into other aspects of my life. I started writing a new story-line in which the hero didn't survive after I finished reading the science fiction The End of Eternity; when Lady Gaga's voice conquered my classroom, new melodies resounded in my head and pounded against my ventricles; I designed a new traffic signal system that could alleviate the traffic jams after getting stuck on the roads every day. Creating makes me sensitive to new ideas and able to propose solutions to problems.

The pencil continues moving. As the vital parts, the wings usually take a lot of time to measure and finish. Calculating the aspect ratio, which decides the sizes and shapes of wings, I feel the thoughts fluttering in my head are bringing me to an intoxication. I experienced the same ecstasy when I built empires in my novel and felt the beauty of notes when I composed original songs. Also, I touched the strong power of engineering when I witnessed my conception of an emergency telephone system became an officially practical

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