<p>I'm really freaking out about this college essay thing. I have no idea what to submit.
It's not that I have no idea what to write. I've got half a dozen essays lying around, I just have no idea which one I should submit.
I was wondering if anyone could take a quick glance through the essay topics I've written so far, and tell me which you think are the best and the worst. Also, any advice on the essay in general would be so appreciated. </p>
<p>Thank you all so much! </p>
<p>List:
(Note, these aren't the titles, just the themes) </p>
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<li>How I can't figure out how to fit this into an appropriate title, and have included a footnote*.</li>
<li>How I fused western culture and eastern culture into my life (note that I'm 100% white, with no ancestral ties to the East, just a passion I've always had for it). </li>
<li>How my family's 150-year saga of economic failure encouraged me to become successful and responsible. </li>
<li>How my search for truth and the meaning of life has sent me through 4 religions, and how my search is far from finished. </li>
<li>How my week long summer business education experience, which included becoming president of a fake company composed of 20 other students who really, really did not want to be there taught me how to work with people.</li>
<li>How Julius Caesar being one of my heroes is unique and should impress you. </li>
<li><p>How Reading Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged forced me, for the first time, to really challenge what I had been brought up to believe, and how it changed me. </p></li>
<li><p>(It's a joke)
** General idea is this: my mom was going through terrible stomach pains one night, so I had to take care of her. My dad was 500 miles away. I began to realize she had to go to the hospital, though my dad said it was a bad idea. I had to become a responsible adult by making the call myself, then giving the EMTs the info, getting info from my dad to the doctors, and keeping my little brother from becoming traumatized in the hospital.</p></li>
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