<p>I simply can't think of anything for the Pomona College supplementary essay. Any ideas?
Thanks!</p>
<p>I really don’t think it’s a trick question. You can’t think of anything fun? What have you been doing for all of high school?!
No, really. I wrote about a camping trip for mine. Just pick something you enjoyed.</p>
<p>I’ve had almost no life in HS…personal reasons I prefer not to discuss in the forum. What about ideas for the other prompt (significant experience in HS)?</p>
<p>Well, why don’t you write about how you having no life in high school affected you? How will you apply what you learned from your “no-lifedness” to your college experience?</p>
<p>I personally wrote about how I went to a school I absolutely HATED, and how I had to learn that changing one’s attitude makes a huge, huge, huge difference on everything. The school might’ve still been a complete joke, but keeping a positive attitude about it was much more helpful than moping about how much my life sucked. Consequently, in college, I can handle whatever difficulties come my way because I’ve already learned to look at things positively.</p>
<p>If you seriously haven’t had much fun, I am not sure Pomona is the school for you. My son is in his first year, and students there are super smart (my son says he is the least talented/smart student there!) and involved in many activities for fun–and just for fun. </p>
<p>My son had trouble thinking of a topic last year and he finally came to me and
asked, “What have I done exclusively for fun?” I reminded him of a day that he came home just beaming, and he wrote about that one, very specific instance, a run he had with some of his buddies. The piece he wrote was long, but the event he wrote about took place over the course of a few hours. Sooooo, the event you write about doesn’t have to be a huge part of your life, but rather it could be one event.</p>