<p>“Tell us about an activity that is important to you, and why. Please feel free to talk about an activity other than one you may have discussed in your essay.”</p>
<p>^Short answer question from USC that requires one paragraph.</p>
<p>Lipreading is every bit like bird watching or sports. It requires concentration, a driven determination to learn, and consistent practice. Could you spin it to make it sound like an activity?</p>
<p>Stalking Adcoms is every bit like bird watching or sports. It requires concentration, a driven determination to learn, and consistent practice.</p>
<p>I have begun stalking adcoms since I was 15 years old, when the cute admissions representative from USC visited our high school. I was smitten by… (200 words later) … by lacing this essay with human pheromones, I know I have won your hearts and minds. I look forward to meeting you all in person, especially you Linda. </p>
<p>To be serious, if lipreading is something that is “important” to you, you’ll have to make the extra effort to:
1). Make it seem very significant in your life.
2). Make yourself seem normal.</p>
<p>Haha, funny :P.
I’m partially deaf… could this still be put as an activity? I /can/ understand people slightly if I don’t lip read (it’s hard work to focus all the time -.-) and it’s basically a choice rather than a reflex for me :x.</p>
<p>Very good. Now its getting much less creepy and much more of an interesting hook. It grabs interest, and shows not only a natural disability but your efforts to overcome it. I’d definitely write about it.</p>
<p>Nice rendering of lip reading in your first post there, though, made me laugh on this dreary morning.
Thanks for the encouragement! :P</p>
<p>I think it’d have to be something you dedicate time to, especially learning it, not something incidental. If you work it the right way, I suppose it could work…</p>