College Essay

Lemuel

Lemuel

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i have no idea what to write it on and can anyone give me any ideas? i want it to be something interesting and not something that everyone else is going to write about. thanks
 
maybe think something youre interested in and know about so will not be anything new. but i dont have any ideas to help.
 
Pick something that's unique to you. For example, I love music and I play in a band, so I wrote mine about my first show ever and how music fits into my life etc. You want your essay to give a good sense of who you are, and you want to show the person reading it how good of a writer you are.
 
Yeah basically you want something that stands out, different, and overall just shows the admissions person who you really are. I'm writing about how I'm a lifeguard
 
you gotta write it about a life experience that you learned from, and it should showcase how you grew as a person and learned a new skill that will help you in college, like work ethic....
 
Haha, i have talked with a ton of college admission counselors and most have these things to say: of course you need to be professional in your writing etc... however be unique, like someone else in this thread stated. Write about something that is important in your life and maybe tie it into a larger life picture. Make your essay stand out. Don't say you have done a lot of community service and cured cancer. That shit is old and repetitive and after reading thousands of essays admission counselors want something that stands out, something that says: wow this kid is different.

Hope that helps a little bit.
 
I am a dynamic figure, often seen scaling walls and crushing ice. I've been known to remodel train stations on my lunch breaks, making them more efficient in the area of heat retention. I translate ethnic slurs for Cuban refugees, I write award-winning operas, I manage time efficiently.

Occasionally, I tread water for three days in a row.

I woo women with my sensuous and godlike trombone playing, I can pilot bicycles up severe inclines with unflagging speed, and I cook Thirty-Minute Brownies in twenty minutes. I am an expert in stucco, a veteran in love, and an outlaw in Peru.

Using only a hoe and a large glass of water, I once single-handedly defended a small village in the Amazon Basin from a horde of ferocious army ants. I play bluegrass cello, I was scouted by the Mets, I am the subject of numerous documentaries. When I'm bored, I build large suspension bridges in my yard. I enjoy urban hang gliding. On Wednesdays, after school, I repair electrical appliances free of charge.

I am an abstract artist, a concrete analyst, and a ruthless bookie.

Critics worldwide swoon over my original line of corduroy evening wear.

I don't perspire. I am a private citizen, yet I receive fan mail. I have been caller number nine and have won the weekend passes. Last summer I toured New Jersey with a traveling centrifugal-force demonstration. I bat .400.

My deft floral arrangements have earned me fame in international botany circles. Children trust me.

I can hurl tennis rackets at small moving objects with deadly accuracy.

I once read Paradise Lost, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield in one day and still had time to refurbish an entire dining room that evening. I know the exact location of every food item in the supermarket. I have performed several covert operations with the CIA. I sleep once a week; when I do sleep, I sleep in a chair. While on vacation in Canada, I successfully negotiated with a group of terrorists who had seized a small bakery. The laws of physics do not apply to me.

I balance, I weave, I dodge, I frolic, and my bills are all paid. On weekends, to let off steam, I participate in full-contact origami.

Years ago I discovered the meaning of life but forgot to write it down. I have made extraordinary four course meals using only a mouli and a toaster oven.

I breed prizewinning clams. I have won bullfights in San Juan, cliff-diving competitions in Sri Lanka, and spelling bees at the Kremlin.

I have played Hamlet, I have performed open-heart surgery, and I have spoken with Elvis.

But I have not yet gone to college.
 
yea i think im gonna write about how i broke my arm in january snowboarding for the first, and last time when my mom told me not to break it. and this was durring midterms and my drivers test was 4 days later
 
wow when i had to write mine it was an assignemtn in sr english! hehe. i wrote a 5 paragraph essay where every other line rhymed! so it was a really long long poem! it was about basketball! back when i thought i would get a scholarship and stuff! haha. i got a 98!

but one girl wrote this awesome one! it was written like a love letter. like i cant wait to see you. you are all i think about when i am in class, but i cant have you until the bell rings....blah blah

at tehn end it was "my one true love, bubble gum" love, sarah! haha it was great!!!! you could write a love letter to your mountain!!! or your skis, like a long distance relationship or something...could be cool if you do it right!
 
yo bro, i had the same problem as you a yaer ago when i was writing my essay. I straight up wrote mine about skiing. got an A+ on it too.
 
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