<p>I have written two essays, but I really don't know which one I should use. </p>
<p>One of them is about my passion for physics which is not shown anywhere else on the application. I wrote about how much I love it and how much time I spent on understanding each concept. Also, I added that because of my obligation to my family, I couldn't be involved in those physics related ECs, but I have done a lot of physics related stuff even at home. At the end, I stated how eager I am to learn more and blah blah blah.</p>
<p>The second one is about working at my parents' restaurant. The essay starts off with a fire and smoke scene (created a little suspense I thought which is what makes me like this essay, too), then I begin talking about how I detested their assignments and would always pretend not to know how to cook and burn food to avoid working. This essay is a little more emotional-I cried and acted silly in the essay. At the end, I realizes that I was wrong and decided to transform myself into a better person and began to view those assignments as responsibility and blah blah blah.</p>
<p>Help me choose please!! Thank you in advance. I am not a great writer and I spent two months just on those two essays.</p>
<p>Anyone? I thought of sending in the second one, but it shows more of how a bad kid I used to me. Should I just go with the first? It shows accomplishment and how hard I have worked.</p>
<p>The second one sounds more cliche to me, but that all depends on how you wrote it, so I can't really say. Give them to your trusted friends (or strangers) and ask which sounds more like you/which makes you sound like someone they'd like to get to know.</p>
<p>okay what if you wrote your essay like this: </p>
<p>How you would be in your parents restraunt but you wouldnt want to do work b/c you'd rather be pursuing your own passions in physics and doing the EC's with physics and so youd get out of stuff blah blah from the second essay</p>
<p>you'd act really immature/cry etc.</p>
<p>then you realize that you can still pursue physics on your own, that EC's arent everything
and at the same time you see all that your parents gave to you and that you owe them this</p>
<p>maybe at the very end just a cute sentence with an anectdote about how you use physics at the restraunt ... eg: As I watch set the water to boil for the customer's speghetti, I quickly calculate how long its going to take... using whatever formula or you know something like that</p>