Common Application: Supplementary Essay(s) (468 words)
UChicago: (Optional) Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.
468-word version:
Moving up the river, change is inevitable. The change reveals the atrocities of human beings. ‘Heart of Darkness,’ a work of literature by Joseph Conrad, gave me the shivers as I read through it...