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Okay...so I have a question: I love to cook (obsessively, gourmet cooking, I've never used a mix). It's a passion of mine. Not so much the eating part, but the cooking. There is something so incredible about creating something: layering the flavors and textures and making something truly delicious. It takes not only precision but science as well.
Thanks to the Food Network, most people get that. But I don't even have a television, so that is just hearsay. ANYHOW. I've always wanted to spread the word for this somehow and get younger people to start cooking, too. I've decided to start an entirely nonprofit cooking class (after school/Friday nights/summers) helped with my own money, donors, and small fees to cover ingredients. I want EVERYONE to be able to enjoy this: I'm not even interested in making money, as I come from a family with no money at all, I know what its like to be unable to experience things because of a lack of funds.
I don't want to go to cooking school- I want to be able to travel, educate myself, and learn a LOT more before I decide upon my career. So I want to go to a great liberal arts school- Oxford, Princeton, Bowdoin, etc, and then go from there. However, this program I'm starting is going to absorb A LOT of my time and energy. Is it worth it? I want to be able to experience a top college and explore these opportunities as well. Will these colleges see it as a good thing or bad thing?
I've had a really really rough time the last four years, and I'm really working to turn my life around. Is this sort of activity demonstrative of that?
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