<p>Anyone want to read my essay. I didn't want to write it, but it's more personal than the one I had in mind,a nd it would probably prove that I have truly overcome many obstacles.</p>
<p>Send it over.</p>
<p>But it already sounds too cliche. Harsh as it may be, admissions officers get thousands of stories of how people overcame obstacles, and frankly, they don't care at all. They want originality and good writing above anything else, even if that means you write about how you had to take chocolate shake at burger king because they were out of vanilla.</p>
<p>^^that would be a great essay btw. i should have written it :)</p>
<p>the topic is not the issue. the writing is. cliche things are only cliche when they sound like everything else, not when they're about the same thing as everything else.</p>
<p>Thanks guys! Anyone else want to read?</p>