Clueless about college essay :(

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>I know that I want to write my essay on my experiences volunteering at a residential camp for teenagers with disabilities. It was really the most amazing experience of my life.</p>

<p>But I have no idea how to write about it in my essay!</p>

<p>I assume it would be under the first essay option about a significant experience. But what do you write about it, exactly? I know I am supposed to give an example of something I did there or something that happened there, but what? </p>

<p>I'm afraid that if I write about, for example, my experience dealing with a little boy who had autism when he got upset about something that it will turn into my writing about how that little boy had an impact on me, not the whole camp.</p>

<p>Please help :(</p>

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<p>The little boy, the whole camp- doesn’t matter, you can write about anything you like. Write about the one moment/thing/event/person that’s the most precious to you.</p>

<p>The question to ask is, how can I present something that is entirely me, different from everyone else? Imagine writing a letter to a person that you trust the most who doesn’t know the current you (for instance, a future roommate, an old friend you haven’t seen in ages, an old teacher or family member): what would you tell them? Is there something you discovered that you’re dying to let the world know?</p>

<p>Do you like formal argument essays, or maybe a good story? What do you like to read? Your reader will like that too.</p>