aviroop wrote:
Anybody composing an essay for the "what hobbies do you have and why do you have special importance for them". Its on the activities section of the application.
I am not sure how to answer this question. Do I talk about a bunch of hobbies and just explain briefly why I pursue them
or
Talk about one hobby and do a PhD dissertation on it.
If I remember correctly, that section is quite short. You won't have much room there. Consider this one a little nugget of flavor. Last year, I listed a few hobbies and then wrote a couple sentences about one in particular: working on my house, which was a fixer-upper we'd bought in Ithaca. I wanted to point out to them that I was quite committed to Ithaca - Cornell is yield-conscious. Of course, they didn't give me enough money, so I put the house on the market a week later and off to Durham I went.