<p>I know there are many posts about college essays and I apologize in advance if my question seems silly. </p>
<p>I'm on the first stages of the essay, and I've had a very hard time picking a topic. I've started reading various books on the college essay, including the one from collegeboard. After an hour of brainstorming today, I finally came across 2 topics.</p>
<p>Moving to America (I'm a foreigner and have been in America for 6 years)</p>
<p>An Accident that happend when I was 10. It affected me, but I plan on exaggerating the effects in my essay.</p>
<p>Moving to America has been overdone too many times. I'm not too fond of the accident essay either, but if it's interesting and it's affected you immensely, then write about it. </p>
<p>The only problem with exaggerating is that sometimes it comes off as fake and overly dramatic since you don't have a clear picture of what you want to write. Be very careful when doing this. Make sure it's effective writing. Trim the jargon.</p>
<p>Most of the stuff you're going to find in the library is overdone as well. If you really want to have a good essay, gather all your essay questions and and list topics you have the most experience with to write about. Trust me, it's much better to do them yourself without looking at example essays so you don't find yourself trying to emulate them. It really shows.</p>
<p>i did coming to america. just present it in a new way. don't just write about actually coming, but what you got out of coming. (does that make sense?) there are a lot of little things in life that make a big impact, it doesn't have to be something huge.</p>
<p>good luck. i'm still in the half thinking/half writing stage.</p>
<p>Well, what I had in mind originally was the impacts of the actual coming to america and how it affected me/changed me. Though, I was worried that it is too overused and will put my folder at the bottom of the pile.</p>
<p>I did truly change personalities and changed as a person in general. I moved from Israel to U.S.A which is a big move containing 2 different cultures. But there are probably hundreds of thousands other students writing about a move like that. So I'm not sure it's such a great topic to write about.</p>
<p>Which is why I ask for help to know whether I should write about how moving to america changed me, or not.</p>
<p>I'm writing an essay about how being in a series of group homes for two years changed my perspectives on human nature, politics and my view on the world.</p>
<p>Check out my post "Essay Writing Advice" as it might help you get started. You don't have to write about an event that changed your life, just find something that shows who you are, how you act, what you believe, etc. Still hard, but perhaps more realistic.</p>
<p>I would suggest playing around with the idea of focusing in on something much smaller in scope than how the move changed you but still staying with the same topic. I think it can be alot more interesting reading a slice of the story than the big picture. Talk about an experience that occured with great description and detail that will speak to who you are as a person - let the reader be able to pull out from what they read and make their own inferences than you out right tell them about the changes. I am not a huge fan of how .....changed my life. But the micro picture of it can be very rivoting. Good luck.</p>