Chasing the Ball of Yarn When I first picked up the ball of soft strings of wool and cotton fibers, I was completely entranced. It was a simple object, but it was amazing how one could use two sticks and yarn to make new creations with practical applications, almost like magic. Learning to knit and crochet was marvelous. Loops intertwined with other loops formed a web of cloth and created something worth far more than what I began with. The...

Healthcare is one of the most pressing issues of our time, crippling our country’s national budget and increasing in cost ever so steadily each and every year. It may be audacious of me to delve into such a subject in an essay where the focus is supposed to be glorifying the self and persuading others of my worthiness and compatibility with the University of Pennsylvania, but I as an individual am nothing more than a shrimp struggling against the...

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