<p>so applications are due in three weeks, i feel like my literary and issue essays are pretty strong but i'm still struggling with what i should write about for my personal essay. </p>
<p>i'm trying to avoid the cliche "my parents divorced" essay, trying to avoid the inspirational chris gardener "i can accomplish anything" essay, trying to avoid being overblown, stiff, exaggerated, dry. </p>
<p>all in all, i'm stuck. help please?</p>
<p>Sorry but your the one who knows your issues :-/</p>
<p>But Wait...You could write about that one time you wrestled a gigantic aligator to the ground and then you held its mouth shut and it reminded you of all the times that people pressured you to not voice your opinion and then in sympathy you let go of its mouth and it ate your arm. Then how it was a liberating experience. </p>
<p>Oh wait was that your story... :-P</p>
<p>definite concrete inspiration
thank you</p>
<p>hahahahaha Corey, you are so funny! :D</p>
<p>Haha lauren i like how you used italics for "so"</p>
<p>:) ten char</p>
<p>??? Ten Char?</p>
<p>You need at least ten characters to post. (She/he only had :) so she/he had to add ten char) </p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>I agree, we don't know your issues/problems/conflicts. Think of it on your own, sorry!</p>
<p>Woah this is a little Bay triangle posting going on. Saratoga, LynnBrook, Monta Vista. Represent. Wow are we coming from the 3 most competitve schools in area.</p>
<p>HELL YEAH! haha. It's funny to think that we will probably never ever meet each other unless we all get into TASP, and fly all the way to Michigan or whatever, when we could actually meet up on De Anza & Prospect and be there in three minutes. XD.</p>
<p>haha. At that sketchy woodshingled building next to quiznos</p>
<p>hahaha :)</p>
<p>Oh yes that would be quite entertaining. I want to see what some of these people look like.</p>
<p>You guys are sophomores, yes? That's a bummer (me = junior) so we won't do TASP together. Not that I'll get in :(</p>
<p>Me = junior
Lobster = sophomore</p>
<p>ooo for serials? </p>
<p>How cool, what TASP seminar do you want to do the most?</p>
<p>hahaha... for me it's a tie between Michigan and UTexas.</p>
<p>Oh...I want to do Cornell II or WashU, I'm thinking.</p>
<p>I'm not very good at writing essays though :( But TASP sounds so cool...and me, not being a permanent resident yet (yeah, it sucks) pretty much can't do anything else...especially because my parents won't spend more than say, $500-600. </p>
<p>:( Yeah that was my short rant of the day. I WANT TO BE A PERMANENT RESIDENT GRRRR</p>
<p>Where are you from?</p>
<p>I'm from Canada. Yep, Canadian citizen. </p>
<p>Sometimes I think my parents are lying to me and we're not even trying to get a green card. I mean, it's been like, five years already.</p>
<p>Cool Tako. definetly was expecting some first generation asian ancestry going on. </p>
<p>Canada thats interesting...Which province you rep???</p>