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Essay C (Required for UT Austin, Optional for A&M) Considering your lifetime goals, discuss how your current and future academic and extra-curricular activities might help you achieve your goals. I stood on my tiptoes, leaning over the counter to get a good look at my face in the mirror. Like the other twenty girls rushing around the dressing room fixing makeup and hair, I was crammed on time. Carefully drawing a thin, black line across my eyelid, my hand suddenly lost its grip. I now had a dot of eyeliner in my eye. More specifically, it was in the white of my eye, where it was clearly visible. “Great,” I sighed. I held my eye wide open and examined it before blinking a few times and washing it under the faucet. The black dot was still there. “Last call for ‘Promises’! Get backstage now!” I had no choice but to quickly move on with the rest of my makeup; I hoped it would go away on its own. I nervously wondered, “Will this affect my vision?” Ever since this makeup mishap, I have noticed other people’s eyes more and more: different tints of blue, green, gray, hazel, and brown or the many combinations of colors, shapes, and sizes. In the society in which we live, the importance of the eyes is apparent in everyday life: how heavily we rely on vision to drive, read, and communicate, and even in cosmetics, how the eyes are emphasized with makeup or different types of contacts. As a swimmer, I …show more content…

Considering that almost everyone encounters vision problems at some point in life, I want to make a difference in many people’s lives. Most of the people I know now have glasses or wear contacts, and more people in future generations are likely to have worse vision, as statistical data shows. One of my friends is considered legally blind and another has a genetic eye disease that could eventually lead to blindness. I want to be able to make a difference for people like my

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