I Am Very Lost....

College Essays
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<p>Hey everyone, I hope all off you are having a much easier time writing this essay than I am. Like the title says....I am lost on this whole process.</p>

<p>I pride myself in being a good writer but the problem lies in the fact that there are not many things about me to tell about or craft an amazing essay around. I fear I am done for...</p>

<p>I have a few ideas but I have no idea on how to connect them to myself or how I would go about doing it. They are as followed:</p>

<p>A) Write about how I almost had to move out to DC (from Chicago) when I was in 8th grade and how it scared me.
B) Write about how I suck at Softball but enjoyed myself regardless and stuck with it albeit obstacles. (Sucking and stereo typical jock)
C) My adventures as a Boy Scout in 6th grade (Easiest to work with I think but fear it's to long ago)
D) Moving from less well off area of Chicago to affluent neighborhood
E) My fishing trips with my Dad every Sunday when I was younger (stopped during HS)</p>

<p>That's all I have and truthfully I am stressed, worried and afraid. I desperately need advice...</p>

<p>There is nothing interesting about me =[</p>

<p>Thank you to any and all!</p>

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<p>These all have potential, especially given your self-proclaimed writing abilities. I wouldn’t use anything from middle school, like Boy Scouts, except something like the last idea. There, the focus isn’t on middle school but on the absence of middle school traditions in high school. </p>

<p>Topic E is the one I naturally gravitate towards, though I would have to know more about why your fishing trips stopped. Was your dad sick? Were you just busy with school and extracurriculars? Did you take a detour through teenager-dom with the sketchy crowd?</p>

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<p>More so that my father got a promotion where he works (DHS) and is one of the “Big Whigs” in the Midwest. That means two things: Better pay and a more demanding job position. Me and my father had a disconnect. We just went our seperate ways. I had HS and he had a more demanding job</p>

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<p>What would that tell adcoms about you? I think there are some compelling themes of loss, loneliness, and growing up at work, but it still needs to reveal desirable personal qualities.</p>

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<p>Never write about sports, it’s cliche. So “B” is out.</p>