251-word version: Carnegie Mellon – Language & Culture
Studying languages and learning about new cultures has always been my favorite and the most fun experience in my life. I do not specifically know when, why or how I began to like them, but I am greatly delighted whenever I befriend a person of different customs, experience a different culture, and attempt to converse in a different language...

247-word version: UIUC – Language & Culture
Studying languages and learning about new cultures has always been my favorite and the most fun experience in my life. I do not specifically know when, why or how I began to like them...