College essay

1.<Tab/>Describe an activity, interest, experience or achievement in your life that has been particularly meaningful to you. <Tab/>Building tree houses used to be my childhood specialty. Running through the woods of Finland with my friends, looking for trees that were in the perfect arrangement and distance apart, finding materials, and negotiating with "rival groups" over territory were all part of what I loved. These are …

…we did as children might not have had meaning but reverberates now as I have gotten older. <Tab/>How simple life was as a child growing up was, just build bigger tree houses and try and protect them was your only worry. Too bad life's worries grow with age and the only way to manage them is to try and remember how you coped with the smaller problems as a child.