<p>Hi!
I’m a junior in high school and I’m really excited about writing my college essays and starting applications and now that APs are over, it’s pretty much summer and I’m so dang ready to get out of here. So, I thought about some essay ideas. ( these are like my last thoughts before going to bed every night. pathetic? yeah, but i’m pumped so whatever) </p>
<p>I thought I’d like to know what you guys think about these. If they rock, they suck, they’re cliched, they’re interesting, whatever. So, here they are</p>
<li><p>(cliche?) I’ve moved a ton in my life. 5 different schools and cities since I’ve lived in America, and then I also lived in India until I was 7. I thought about talking about the thoughts going through my head through each car ride or plane ride between the cities and showing how each time, some thoughts would recur, but how my mind developed between and with each transition </p></li>
<li><p>My life in as a series of speeches. I’m Vice President of Speech & Debate, President of Model UN, and historian of Mock Trial so I thought I would demonstrate my passion for speaking, and debating, by talking about how this all started out in 1st grade when they made me give this big speech about our prime minister of India to our school and how overwhelming it all was and then transitioning into how each “era” of my life was associated somehow with a speech, from my Gifted Education final debate about immigration and winning that and then the 8th grade commencement speech and then student body VP speech in front of a camera and then finally committing myself to doing it every Saturday of the school year and making it to States and getting awards and stuff. Or how if I can never stop feeling the insane nervousness and gut wrenching butterflies, even after umpteenth speeches, because that would mean that I’d stopped caring. </p></li>
<li><p>How I’ve really wanted to go on a road trip across the country, and committing myself to eating lunch every day at a gas station cafe because the best sandwich I ever had was when I was seven years old and I had just moved to America and it was at a gas station. Of course, I’d try to be eclectic and stuff for dinner, but it’s really all about the gas stations. I’ll tie it into some higher meaning afterward haha</p></li>
<li><p>Meeting people again. How every time I see people that I’ve had to miss because of all the moves, seeing them makes me see myself and how I’ve developed as a person. </p></li>
<li><p>Every week, I go to a local coffee shop and listen to our open mic night with local musicians and even just high schoolers who just want to try out a cover and stuff and meet people from all the nearby cities and towns and how that routine is the only true routine I can handle because each experience is so different from the last that it doesn’t feel routine at all. </p></li>
<li><p>How it always bothered me that I don’t have a middle name, and how it really got to me during the beginning of every school year in elementary school, we always get into a big discussion about names and how I have such a strange one and why I don’t have a middle name and etc, etc, and how I learned to accept my lack of middle name as an opportunity to give myself my own tag. </p></li>
<li><p>( too informal?) I’ve written over 150 notes on facebook with poems and short stories- and though some of my writing has been published, how the true pleasure is derived when it’s 4 am in the morning and I finally figure out how to convey a message with the perfect rhyme for “tenacity” or something like that. </p></li>
<li><p>My laugh changes every month or so. </p></li>
<li><p>How some of the most influential people in my life are people that I knew for less than a day, like the aged man who sat next to me on the way when I flew from North Carolina to Ohio on my last move and the 8 year old who played better guitar than I could dream of playing at open mic night or the single father with two kids I met on a bus in downtown while I was heading home from my internship. </p></li>
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<p>ah, I think that’s it for now. I don’t know, I probably have like 40 more floating around somewhere in my brain if all of these just seem to suck. I’d just love to hear your honest opinion 
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<p>thanks!</p>
Oh, and there is a forum for college essays on this site. If you post this there, you might get better results.</p>