UIUC: In an essay of approximately 300 words, choose one extracurricular activity, work experience, or community service project from the list you provided on the application and explain why you initially chose it, why you continued with it, and how you benefited from it.
312-word version:
Every summer for the past two years, I was busy working as an interpreter in my dad’s company. Because I am highly interested in business, especially in international commerce, it was an opportunity I could not resist along with its presupposed paternal fringe benefits, but ‘boy’ was I wrong...