"Circuit Boards" Supplemental Essay
学校: Tufts University
I briefly mentioned this in the additional information section, but I'd like to elaborate more on the talk show I created. It's called the Mustard Show, mainly because it heavily features mustard, as the name suggests. My friends and I film an episode every 1-2 months for each edition of our school's multimedia newspaper. For each one, we set up the show in a different inconvenient outdoor location and invite a couple guests, usually students, to discuss topics including theater, student government, journalism, exotic variants of mustard, and more. It's meant to be a satirical show that has a bit of a surreal element to it, but there have also been moments where we've discussed serious issues that I wanted to reach my audience. The show became very well received among the students, and what mattered most to me was that it could make people laugh and smile, which makes me want to continue the Mustard Show. Making this show has also developed my interest in using unconventional types of media to inform people on topics that they might otherwise not interest them. Political apathy is one of the biggest problems among young people today, and it would help to get people interested in political and environmental issues by explaining them from a more novel and engaging platform. Of course, I would also sprinkle in some humor to brighten things up. I think Tufts would be a fantastic place for me to allow this passion to develop into something more.

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