<p>For the typical "experience that affected you" prompt, I was leaning towards writing about family health issues, and how I had to learn to be independent and help out and stuff like that. I feel like it could go wrong very easily though, any advice?</p>
<p>Don’t talk in generalities. Focus specifically on the health issue, how it directly affected you, what your actions were as a result, etc.</p>
<p>Do multiple drafts. Focus on your emotions and responses. It’s took me a while to make my family issues into an essay I was proud to show. Looking back, my first “completed” essay was horrendous in comparison to my final essay one month later because the thoughts were too jumbled into lame, whiny complaints.</p>