How informal is too informal, really?

The general idea of my essay so far is that I have never seen myself as anything special, and that my teenage years were a drab existence. The turning point, I suppose, is growing up in general, and realizing that my life will go by one way or the other so I might as well start living it. At that point, I started learning how to live for myself, rather than others.

I feel like my humor is very…dry, self-deprecating, and sometimes morbid. That’s who I am, but I feel that’s not what others want to read. I also think that my ‘premise’ is too general, and that I need a focus. I’m thinking my dad, my mom, or the fact that I’m a transfer.

Do you guys think there is a limit to humor?

i think it could go either way…dry is good…but it could also veer into NOT FUNNY.

:slight_smile:

My kid had a grand old time with the custom essays for both uChicago and UNC-Chapel Hill and got into both.

(I’m happy to read it if you want to mail it to me here at CC…doesn’t matter if its rough)