College Admissions Essay: What Makes Me Different Is My Art

With one fell swoop of my hand. I can turn blobs of color into busy highways of light. Into lines piercing the sky. I can tell the story of your family and before all the t’s are crossed and i’s are dotted I can give you just a little piece of my soul. My talent that has set me apart from others has been my art, but living my life as a multifaceted person I don’t think it's that simple to say “The thing that makes me different is my art,” is to put me in a box with other individuals that have declared the same statement. The artistic experience is one that is meant to share humanity with others. This is what has been integral to who I am today. My love for humanity and my interest in sharing and preserving it by any means necessary.

In the summer of my Junior

year, I started an art program within my community. It was an idea that I’d had for a while that had just floated about formless had become a reality. I was ecstatic I would be given the chance to take formless raw talent in and turn each student into a cheeky Caravaggio, or delicate Rembrandt, or poignant Faith Ringold. I had ideas of how I would teach the students perspective with a t-square.Only real teachers got to use tools. I had a very regimented and formulaic idea of how I was going to accomplish this goal in the short amount of time. When I arrived nothing was quite as perfect as I’d imagined. I had a class full of generally disinterested children unsure of why they had to take my art class in the first place, dubious of the students around them, a little sleepy, a little hungry, and ready to go play. I remember when the first student pointed at me and asked Ms.Lee what are we going to do today? At first I was taken aback that was my mother's name. At that moment It became clear to me I was a teacher and I was here to give my students something that they couldn't pay a strict art teacher to do with the only focus on the result I was already making the experience seem like a failure if the students didn’t create a prescribed outcome. So I chucked the lesson plan out of the window and got the students to stand up and interview someone that didn't know. Because if anything, I have learned that art is all about you experience with others and the world around you it's about taking pieces of other people and making them a part of yourself so you may give the world a coalesced view of themselves.

In the system of politics, the student is often forgotten about.

Humanity is often forgotten about. What is never forgotten is money and power. When I was in the students superintendents program I was given the notion that I did have power in the political system. We learned about grassroots campaigns, oration, and how to get the attention of politicians trying to dodge our questions. Our final project was to go to the capital and advocate test reform to the senators there debating whether to get rid of the new tests haphazardly put in place. I was nervous upon walking into the republican senator I’d been assigned office. I expected a caricature of a person to open the door open usher us in. A few of my fellow delegates and I would give him our liberal fiscally irresponsible views. and he would excuse his self to a meeting. The experience was not quite as un-human as that. Senator Aaron bean ushered us in and sat us down. I started speaking to him about his own testing legislation he listened and engaged with us. I was almost surprised. The senator was humane and he was actually trying to make us feel important. He was in a position of power and he could make change within the education

system.

Ever since I was young I had a dream of being a lawyer. Because I knew there was a gross imbalance of injustice in the world and I wanted to fix that. Later on, I put a name to the type of lawyer I wanted to be. I remember when I was getting my nails done and an older woman was telling me about how she was in the process of patenting a game her family created. I remember he passion as she talked about working with the patent lawyers to make her dream a reality. I wanted to be a patent, lawyer. I wanted to be able to help others fully realize their ideas and inventions and protect that. Now I’ve expanded that dream to an international one. I’d like to help patent international businesses products large and small. I’d like to help protect the little bit of themselves that people put out into the world.