<p>I don’t know if this is just me, but I’m having a hard time thinking of something for this short essay. All the other questions were so easy for me, but I’m stumped by that essay.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any inspiration that can help me out? :)</p>
<p>Trust me, I’m stumped too.</p>
<p>Are you taking the question too literally? College application questions are vague because the things they are looking for are vague. Examples of something less literal would be a story from a volunteering experience where you made someone smile or maybe you play a sport and you had a big momentum changing play and your essay is either about people’s reaction to that play or the preparation it took to make such a play possible.</p>
<p>tell them that you created this thread on CC.</p>
<p>doesn’t have to be a literal construction
i talked about research experience</p>
<p>I talked about a club I created in my school. I am having a lot of trouble with “why do you want to go to college?”</p>
<p>I went quite literal. To each his own though.</p>
<p>I just got an idea, but it’s the same thing as my extracurricular essay from the commonapp. Would be srsly awkward if I wrote about the same thing</p>
<p>Finaleyes,</p>
<p>I wasn’t trying to imply that there’s anything wrong with going literal, especially if you do have something physical you created that you are genuinely proud of and you can write about it in a way that isn’t just a bland explanation of the item. The point of the essay though isn’t to weed out people who aren’t good with their hands, so I’m assuming if the OP was struggling it’s because he/she failed to explore alternative interpretations of the question once the literal one did not apply.</p>
<p>Sorry if that sounded preachy, I’m writing this not only as a response to you but as advice to any future readers.</p>
<p>I wrote about creating organization and a filing system at a summer internship</p>
<p>Salamence156 - I just got an idea, but it’s the same thing as my extracurricular essay from the commonapp. Would be srsly awkward if I wrote about the same thing </p>
<p>You’d be missing an opportunity to showcase another part of yourself, so I wouldn’t do it unless you can really write about it in another light.</p>
<p>You can ‘create’ anything. Even create a ring of friends by introducing people. Or you can create culture/environment of openness at your school by participating in LGBT club or something along that line. Just be sure that it is something that you are into and proud of, as stated. This should be easy if it is only a short one. Even if the artists can have an extra chance to showcase themselves, and the computer programmers and gamers can have bragging rights, most anyone did plant a garden, bake some cookies or did something outside of their comfort zone that may seem modest but made you proud.</p>
<p>Now don’t copy. Don’t think admissions people don’t know about cc boards.</p>
<p>I took it quite literally as well (applied ED), and talked about a solar panel I made my sophomore out of second hand parts as to promote cheap alternative energy sources in my community. </p>
<p>Really straightforward essay (no fancy wording or clever statements, I just kinda came out and said it). </p>
<p>But yeah, it’s an open ended question, and I don’t think it has to be literal. For example, I thought about talking about an essay I “constructed” :)</p>
<p>I wrote about my dream and what is in my dream</p>
<p>I wrote about my sexy body.</p>
<p>Didn’t mention the sexiness, though. Just talked about how running has changed me, mostly.</p>
<p>^ loved how you phrased that 
i just talked about the club i created at school.</p>
<p>I was stuck here too… My friends suggest me to go with a literal one, that’s why I found it so difficult. The word ‘create’ is very limiting.</p>
<p>Take it however you want to take it</p>
<p>I talked about something I actually created in 5th grade for my school’s “Invention Convention.” LOL…</p>
<p>I’m in the literal camp. Actually, I took pretty much the entire Brown supplement at face value… <em>shrug</em> hopefully my Common App essay is good enough? [insert expletive here] either way, I’m terrified. Yay, college!</p>
<p>I might go with the computer I built last summer, idk if I want to go literal…</p>