I’m brainstorming some ideas about the prompt about my world.
I come from a poorer family in a richer city and was thinking of focusing my essay on that but I feel like it’s too negative a topic to write about. Here’s the ideas I like:
Bipolar mother- my mother is bipolar and this drastically affected my life because she is a manic spender and charged up thousands of dollars and is a kleptomaniac and has gotten caught shoplifting. This essay shows a hardship but I feel like it is a little too depressing and will be more difficult to later talk about how this shaped my dreams and aspirations.
Having no car- With this essay I would have more room to be witty and be able to show more personality. In a school where everyone else has a new car I am left carless. My family has two cars but I don’t have my own. I could also write about how sophomore year my family did not have a car at all and on my birthday my grandma came out to drive me to get dinner. This essay sounds like I’m trying to say poor me but I think I could add some funny lines to it and incorporate how i actually prefer walking to a lot of places now.
Couponing- I think this essay would stand out the most. Because my family is poor my dad is very cheap and only lets my buy food at the store if it is on sale or he has a coupon even if it is only ten cents more. This led to me being more protective of my money and shopping a thrift shops and only buying sale items at stores.
Prompt 2
Optimistic- for this essay I was going to write about how I accidentally scored a goal for the other team in lacrosse but wasn’t too upset about it and moved past it. I actually laughed. I later won an award for being most enthusiastic player and was promoted to varsity the next year when I was a sophomore . My jv coach would later become my calculus bc teacher junior year. (I want to peruse engineering) I feel like this essay is too cliche and overused but I liked the rough draft that I wrote.
Reading- I have to expand more on this one but I would focus on how I love reading and my friends know when a movie from a book comes out I probably read it. I was thinking of talking about how I like to escape and I read one of my favorite boos after my brother committed suicide and it was always sentimental of that time. However I feel like this promot might fit more into the world prompt and I could say how the books world is my own and how I was fighting shadow hunters yesterday and talking to mr.darcy this morning.
I could also switch ideas maybe the couponing one could be prompt 2.
Thank you for reading, I’m just brainstorming ideas although I do have a rough draft of most of them. I think these essays are really about how the idea is executed but I’m not sure which idea to use. I’d appreciate any help. Thank you!