Setting and achieving goals has always been hugely important to me, and I believe that the goals I've reached through my passion, writing, define me in a major way. For the past six consecutive years I've participated in National Novel Writing Month, an annual contest that challenges you to write a 50,000 word novel in a month, and won. This is a goal that requires a lot of commitment, balance, and time management, and it's important to keep going in order...

I sent in a supplemental essay about my creation and continued ownership of a website called hungergamesrpg.com. I began this website as an online role-play game for Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games series just after the first book came out when I was in eighth grade. The website has since grown to have nearly ten thousand members, and managing and maintaining it over the years has been extremely important to me.

I know that many of you will have a focus in different subjects, but if you're close with an English teacher at all,...