<p>I wrote a common app essay (for a school assignment- most people end up using it for college apps). I got a high grade on it, and the teacher liked it. I used a clear example and proved something about myself. He didn't really have any suggestions to make it better.</p>
<p>But now I'm not sure I even like it. I'm afraid the topic isn't interesting enough, or that the point about myself that I'm proving isn't interesting enough. I've been pouring through my mind over different topics for the last month now. I'm so lost! I know I have plenty of time, and I wish that this essay could work out, but I'm worried that its just lackluster and for my particular admissions case, the essay will be so important.</p>
<p>My life is boring, I admit it :/ It tried to choose a topic I cared about but it just reads ordinary.</p>
<p>Does anyone have any suggestions for getting past this? Thanks</p>
<p>If you haven’t checked this out, you should. It’s great stuff. </p>
<p>[Essays</a>, Admission Information, Undergraduate Admission, U.Va.](<a href=“http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html]Essays”>http://www.virginia.edu/undergradadmission/writingtheessay.html)</p>
<p>The only potential difference between you and someone else is probably not how different you are, it’s how you tell your story. What I liked about your post was your brutal honesty. Perhaps that is something you can leverage. For example, you could make an essay on being bored. You could embrace your boredom, something like:</p>
<p>*I am sitting here trying to write my essay and the only thing I’m confident about is being truly bored with my own story. I just took a break and channel surfed through 700+ channels and it all bored me. Can it it be that it is all so boring or is it really just that me that is boring? Right now, I’m looking around my room and it all looks so ordinary to me, right down to same Pink Floyd poster my friend has. I am worried that I am ordinary. </p>
<p>I race around over-packing my day with stuff to do yet I’m not fully engaged. If I pass another Starbucks or strip mall do I have any reason to feel anything? Is this progress? Or perhaps as the Pogo cartoon strip observes we have simply “met the enemy and he is us.” *</p>
<p>Thats great advice, thank you :)</p>