<p>This is just a general question about UC essays.</p>
<p>Since we're not supposed to use creative writing, how are people opening their essays or keeping them from sounding like impersonal trash.</p>
<p>I've read a few with extended similies and that seems to work but it's bordering on creative writing. And I've read a few that just ignored the creative writing rule and started off a description of an experience.</p>
<p>But what to do, what to do?</p>