Prompt: Write about something important to understanding you
I have been stuck on this prompt for a while and decided I wanted to write about my sense of humor. After toying around with the idea for a while I came up with an idea of how I see the value of memes because they “connect people”, although other people see them as an indicator of immaturity (this is clearly more eloquently explained in the essay). I basically want to show that although most of my application is very serious I can still be lighthearted and have a sense of humor.
Do you think this essay could be pulled off, or is it just a bad idea to write a college essay about memes?
Try it. It may be a tough write, but could work. Remember, even though this seems an ordinary question, you still want to show the qualities they like. Connecting people could do it. Make sure the humor isn’t off.
This is a topic that sounds like it would be genuinely written by a 17-18 year old student, and as such, has the potential to really show exactly what colleges are looking for - how you see yourself at this stage in your life.
As long as you don’t present yourself in a way that might make the admissions officer reading your application wonder about how you will fit in to their class, (imagine the kid writing about how they love to anonymously send mean-spirited memes to the all the losers in their high school - which turns out to be 99% of the rest of the class…and they send memes only because they can’t send pipe bombs …) you can probably do this well.
Relax, enjoy the process, despite the stress, and remember to have fun.
The one thing about memes is that a lot of adults don’t’ really understand the culture. Writing an essay would be a boom or bust proposition because if you are successfully able to connect on the humor it will work amazingly, otherwise, it will fail miserably. I would suggest running the essay through a bunch of adults who don’t know about memes to get an idea of the responses they give.