Their dramatic peaks and graceful curves speak volumes.

I enjoy never giving up, always thinking there’s a way, and if there is not one, creating it. I enjoy walking through Central Park with Paige, my girlfriend of six years, and discovering new paths.

At the age of seven, I left my “kid days” of playing banker behind to open a lemonade stand on the front porch.

I would like to share with the admissions board my lifelong passion in physical fitness, because it defines an important part of my personality.

“So what’s this farming thing all about?”

On my last train ride from Tarragona to Barcelona to catch my flight home after a semester abroad in Spain, I resolved to return after graduation for a more authentic Spanish experience.

I wish the admissions committee had asked me: What else inside the applicant personality is valuable to know?

Some insight into my life can be drawn from this experience.

One day in 1989, not long after my parents and I set foot in America, we stumbled upon a piece of furniture that would come to define our early years as immigrants.

While I share what I have done and hope to achieve, my story is incomplete without explaining the “why.” Alone and with no resources, my mother fled the religious persecution of the Baha’is in Iran to ensure the safety and education of her four children.

A quick proofread of the other five essays suggests that they don’t entirely capture me.