Help me pick a topic! (so i can stop procrastinating!)

College Essays
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<p>i have way to many topics i could write about for the common app essay. Heres a short list. any suggestions on which would be good// not so good?
i think they are all bad, haha, but i really can’t think of anything to write about</p>

<li><p>getting a scholarship to my high school in 8th grade and crying because i didnt want to go there and i knew no one. turned out to be great experience, met great friends, the scholarship opened so many oppurtunities.
…i tried to write this one and it came out boring, self-absorbed, and generic</p></li>
<li><p>meeting three boys (ages 17,18,23) in switzerland. They already spoke 4 languages each, and were incredibly smart. Made me realize how advanced and motivated they were, and motivated me</p></li>
<li><p>writing about reading as my escape, some books ive read, how the charachters are my fireinds etc.</p></li>
<li><p>experience in 8th grade… being in volleyball region champs. three starters, including myself, were in a car that ended up in a diffferent state. we arrived for the last set, everyone was crying. we would have won if we had been there. taught me that life is unexpected, things dont always go as planned, etc</p></li>
<li><p>i collect ticket stubs of the movies i have seen. i love the movies. I’ve been doing it for about the past 6 years. i have a wooden box full. i dont know how i could turn this into and essay. any suggestions? if this is even good</p></li>
<li><p>freshmen year feild hockey was basically torture, we had a pyscho coach who made up run four hours straight everyday in the scorching sun. She personally made me cry several times, told me she thought i would be good, but i was terrible. more than half the team quit before preseason was over, but i stuck it out She was fired, and i have been onn varsity for the last three years. taught me to trust myself, keep pushing through hard times</p></li>
<li><p>i was never intrested in current events or politics, but last year i was forced to take a class dealing strictly with current events due to a schedule conflict… our text book was a newsweek magazine. i fell in love with the class and politics/ world events. i read the newsweek cover-to-cover every week. now i want to major in government/international relations/ polysci</p></li>
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<p>thanks to anyone who read this! and Thanks in advance for any suggestions!</p>

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<p>Choose whichever topic will allow you to be the most personal, detailed, honest and revealing.</p>

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<p>i was leaning towards the last one, but many supplement essays ask for a class or book that influenced you. this could also work for these topics. </p>

<p>also this class helps describes my passion for polysci, gov, international relations, etc and is the reason i want to apply to certian schools. I dont want to repeat myself. what do you guys think</p>

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<p>I think that you are the best judge of what can be most personal and revealing for you. </p>

<p>If you go with this topic, make sure that the essay focuses on you, revealing details about you, not on the basic facts of the class.</p>