I want to open by saying something along the lines of, “in the fall of my junior year, I went through my first identity crisis”. Then I will go detailed into how in the fall of my junior year, I attended a leadership conference where we did a personality activity. Given the instructions to go to one of four personality types marked on each corner of the room, I could cross out the two extroverted personalities but then had to decide between being Analytical or Amiable. I want to make it seem like this choice had a lot more implications than I thought, and as the months would go by after this day, I’d come back to the choice I made that “fateful” day. Ultimately, I chose Amiable. But the reason for my indecisiveness is that I want to be a physicist, and physicists are generally these logical, math-whiz people. I want to highlight that after choosing Amiable (a choice I told myself I regretted) I struggled to define who I was as the school year went by. How I eventually realized the amiable side of me was actually what would make me a great physicist because I could see the world in this beautiful, clarifying light. Throw in how I saw the total solar eclipse and how I could see the beauty in the precision. How when I fold origami cranes I can see both their precise shape and their symbolic side. The goal is to really showcase how my idealistic view of the world isn’t a weakness, it’s a strength.
So yeah. That’s pretty much it. My struggle is self-doubt. I don’t have any amazing academic opportunities (summer programs, research, etc) to include. I’ve had a few ideas for my essay but this seems to be what I keep coming back to.
Thoughts? 