For the Harvard supplement, I wrote about my fascination with dystopian literature that began back in my tenth grade English classroom, when I first picked up Orwell's 1984, and how the book served as a stepping stone into an interest in topics brought up by dystopian, such as conformity, censorship, oppression, etc.

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