Prompt: Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family. Growing up, I was slow, weak and a little bit chubby. I was always more inclined to academics and intellectual pursuits rather than athletics. At times, I loved my nerdiness. I was a human encyclopedia with an entry on nearly everything from the inner workings of the German government to battles of the Hundred Years' War. Other...

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