<p>Recount an incident or time when you experienced failure. How did it affect you, and what lessons did you learn?
That's the prompt i have chosen, but i'm not sure on what to write about. Anyone want to give me some general ideas. I know it's upon my failures, but some general ideas can help me think better, any ideas would be greatly appreciated!</p>
<p>Do you think i can talk about being cut on the freshman basketball team?</p>
<p>Sure, sounds good to me. But beware of turning your essay into a giant cliche by the end; if you find yourself writing about how you learned that with hard work and perseverance, you can make your dreams come true, you’ll need to either dig deeper or scrap the topic.</p>
<p>Thanks, for now i’d better not risk it since i’m writing this right now as my AP English final. How about this prompt, Discuss an accomplishment or event, formal or informal, that marked your transition from childhood to adulthood within your culture, community, or family. What possibilities can i write about?</p>
<p>Write on anything you are passionate and hopefully your love of the subject will bleed (not literally) out of the paper and into the minds of the reader. heehee</p>
<p>Without knowing anything about you, we can’t possibly suggest a topic. Obvious topics for the transition from childhood to adulthood are things like a bar mitzvah, or a first job, or getting a driver’s license. But they’ll hear those topics again and again. I think you can write a great essay about something seemingly mundane, like maybe the first time you picked out the family Christmas tree or cooked a meal for your family or something like that. It doesn’t have to be a BIG event, just one that symbolizes something for you. Personally, I still can’t believe (at age 48) that I get the master bedroom. That symbolizes being a grown-up to me. Doesn’t that sound more interesting than saying buying my first house? Yet it’s essentially the same thing. </p>
<p>Don’t write about being cut from a team/not getting a part in the play/failing a test unless you grew in some profound way from the experience. Again, those topics have been done a gazillion times. I think a far more interesting “failure” would be when your actions let someone else down and you experienced personal growth. Maybe you lied, maybe you didn’t do something you said you would do. Maybe you failed to meet your own expectations of yourself. Think beyond the obvious answers.</p>