Common App Prompt #6
Describe a topic, idea, or concept you find so engaging that it makes you lose all track of time.
When I was nine, I took apart a broken alarm clock because I wanted to know where the morning lived1. The gears looked less like machinery and more like a tiny city that had forgotten how to wake up2. After that, every object became a question: a stapler was a lever with a temper3, a calculator was a patient box of rules, and a bicycle chain was a small argument about motion4.
