Describe a circumstance, obstacle or conflict in your life, and the skills and resources you used to resolve it. Did it change you? If so, how?
I was thinking of writing about building my own gaming computer. My lap top wouldnt work, I needed something more powerful, but desktops can be too large, so i built a smaller version of it to be portable since i travel back and forth between my dads and moms once a week. What do you think?
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You need to show how it personally affected you in a deep way. A lot of people write about the smallest things (Daily car rides with parents for example), but it needs to be something that shaped who you are today, and changed you permanently. Did building a pc do that for you?
Ah, okay No! lol thank you. Im going to write about joining the swim team
Thats even worse to be honest. Nearly everyone writes about athletics, and most don’t do a good job. Only do it if you are sure you can show its personal impact, or else it can end up being super cliche.
I was going to go along the lines of…
Obstacle: having to swim instead of play golf, and how hard it was
Resources: friends tutelage, youtube videos, and weekend practice
How it changed me: (Im trying to think of something less cliche than “Perserverance defeats adversity yay!”) how about …uh…
the computer thing didnt really change me, other than being more patient. My parents divorced, but that probably as cliche as a sports one. I kind of get crap for being Jewish but idk if i have enough material for that, and even if i do make some of that up, idk how its really affected me. Not much but cliche stuff to go on, so i went with this swim thing
Just think of small things in your daily life, I am sure something will come. Writing about sports doesn’t necessarily make your essay cliche, its just that those essays tend to be cliche most of the time.
how small can they be? like hot cheetohs over salt and vinegar chips? or like not being able to find a parking spot
Or alternatively, focus in on a very, very, very small element of something that’s cliched to put a unique spin on it. Don’t just say that swimming was hard because you had to exercise a lot more. Or that you didn’t see yourself making any progress, so you had to push yourself harder.
There’s a lot more to swimming than actually swimming. Like the bathing suits you had to wear, or the first freezing dive of practice. Maybe swimming clashed with your personality or identity. Maybe you’re a sticking-your-little-toe-in-the-water kind of guy, or you hate getting your hair wet, or you feel self-conscious about your body. I could also think of many contrasts between golf and swimming, in the way you think, feel, and approach your ultimate goal. What is one of those differences, and what has it taught you?
Okay, thats good! I never thought of it that way! Thanks