<p>The prompt: Please briefly elaborate on one of your extracurricular activities or work experiences in the space below (150 words or fewer).</p>
<p>Would it be best to try and convey a lesson learned as a whole through one activity? Perhaps to show how important it was, even if without great notable achievement? As in almost like a mini narrative? Or to actually elaborate on the activity as in "As a captain of the fencing team I had the responsibility of doing this, this, and this. I did this and we won this really important meet on this date." ?</p>
<p>For that one I’ve noticed people have just actually elaborated. It’s hard to convey a lesson in just 150 words or less. I tried, it really doesn’t work.</p>
<p>Yeah I tried to convey something meaningful, but it’s far too short. :(</p>
<p>Thank you for your advice!</p>
<p>If it needs explaining, explain. Otherwise, it’s certainly possible to convey, albeit briefly, why it was meaningful to you. A “life in the day” method can work particularly well. For my blurb about debate, I opened with a typical, chaotic morning on the debate bus and then digressed into a more general description of preparing for tournaments, the friends I’ve made, the questions I’ve learned to ask–you get the idea.</p>
<p>Ohh, Thank you! I like your example. I’m going to try and find a happy medium, as just plain listing is not appealing to me.</p>
<p>i’m trying to write that right now too but i seem to have forgotten any semblance of the english language. i decided to write mine on a work experience, but it seems to be too trivial =P</p>