<p>I bicycled to Florida from Chicago with my friend who is a year younger than me this summer, could I make a good essay out of this? Any tips?</p>
<p>If you’re applying with the common app, I would take one of those questions and try to use that experience in your answer. For example, I chose the question about diversity and am writing about my job at a Mexican restaurant.</p>
<p>That definitely sounds exciting and interesting, not something most people do everyday…or ever! I, however, feel like anything can make a good essay topic if it’s well-written. If you can find a way to tie it in to one of the questions on the common app then great, but otherwise there’s a topic of your choice option. Just try to use the essay to indirectly portray the qualities that make you a desirable student for colleges. And remember, make it captivating! Your story sounds exciting, but if you tell it in a way that’s boring to you, then it’s boring to admissions officers. They already sift through thousands of essays, so make yours stand out.</p>
<p>It sounds like an awesome topic. One problem that I had when writing an essay on a particular experience, was that I talked too much about the experience itself and not enough about myself, in other words, you don’t want the experience to over take the essay, it should be about you. When writing your essay you should be thinking about what your motives were for deciding to make this trip and how this experience changed you</p>