I need help starting an essay with this prompt! Help please

<p>Optional Essay or Submission:
Beyond your impressive academic credentials and extracurricular accomplishments, what else makes you unique and colorful? Provide us with some limited measure of your personality. We know that nobody fits neatly into 500 words or less, but you can provide us with some suggestion of The Type of Person You Are. Anything goes! Inspire us, impress us or just make us laugh</p>

<p>This is optional, but the only essay on the supplemental form... I suck at things like this... any suggestions.. I need help!</p>

<p>Need help trying to start my essay</p>

<p>Get a word salad going by getting some refrigerator magnets. From that word salad you can build a story about yourself. Rather than using adjectives in a situation like this. Tell a story. It just needs to be one coherent anecedote that could emerge from the word salad if you have writer’s block. In telling the story, you’ll find yourself getting the reader to think of those adjectives about you rather than your explicitly telling the reader you have those particular adjectives. Rather than saying your understanding, describe the situation in a story otherwise it could read like a personal ad (which is okay if you can do it well and in a clippy fun to read manner). -James</p>