<p>I think I'm gonna be narcissistic and write about how good I am. None of that community service or overcoming trouble stuff.</p>
<p>I think that’s a bad idea, even if you are joking.</p>
<p>already wrote the common app essay, activity short answer, four supplemental essays, and four short-ish responses</p>
<p>10 total. but I recycled whenever possible :)</p>
<p>Mine is about this new life experiment I am currently trying.
We’ll see how it turns out.</p>
<p>I really have no idea. I wrote a few essays that I might use, but…the suggestions we got during the school year weren’t helpful. They told us to write basically about anything but not about major achievements or overcoming obstacles since colleges get tired of that. </p>
<p>So I wrote about getting lost…</p>
<p>I wrote about writing for my common app essay. I better get started on my others…</p>
<p>I wrote a couple not very good ones, but I think I know what I’m writing my common app one about now. I just have to write it…</p>
<p>Mine are finished and sent!</p>
<p>^No kidding? That’s stellar. I keep writing my common app essay, editing, and then scrapping it because I’m too nervous about the topic. Done it three times so far.</p>
<p>Finished all my essays and already sent my University of Michigan app.</p>
<p>The ones I’m really nervous about are the supplementary ones. I mean, I know why I’m applying to certain schools but not how to tell them that. Especially when some of the reasons are kind of…stupid.</p>
<p>I still have another year left but I’m probably going to write about growing up between 2 very different cultures, eastern European and black American, and the trouble, benefits, and how it shaped the way i perceive things… if I have that option.</p>
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<p>Holy s***! Yesterday, I was just thinking something like ‘wow. some of my essays really sucked.’ So then I started thinking of sweet ideas that would have been actually halfway decent. My idea was basically to write about how awesome I am by telling my life story.</p>
<p>Here’s my intro:</p>
<pre><code> A bright star was overhead. Gold gifts were lined around the newborn male. This creation was born at exactly midnight, or so the story goes. Eight days later a Rabbi laid his knife to the boy’s loins. By that eighth day, it was already clear that a living legend had been given to the world.
Yes, this newborn was me. A bright star was overhead because it was a clear night. The gold gifts? My parents recieved gold-plated imprints of each hand as soon as I was born. I was actually born at midnight; my parents had the option of picking my birthday. And despite my last name, I am Jewish. In fact, I’m somehow related to Jerry Bruckheimer, that famous producer. I guess greatness just runs in the family.
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<p>^ I think you need to rephrase that. It sounds so…fantasylike</p>
<p>The first part was supposed to liken me to Jesus. In fact, it was supposed to make the reader think it was jesus or some other bible legend. hence the fantasy-like aspect.</p>
<p>“I was actually born at midnight; my parents had the option of picking my birthday.”</p>
<p>ME TOO!!! i’ve never heard of that happening to anyone else. I guess i’m not as unique as i thought…</p>
<p>First of all, I’m not “anyone else.” Are you kidding here? I’m amazing, admit it.</p>
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ha, guess you’re not! </p>
<p>Can people on here do math? If being born takes ten seconds (guess from movies), the probablity that one of those seconds occurs on midnight is 1/8,640 (assuming birth time is not correlated to time of day). So that means there’s about 35,000 of us in the United States. Yeah, we’re special! NOT.</p>
<p>;) I’m being a dick on purpose here. I don’t know why. It’s just that attitude I sometimes get. But yeah, you’re the first person I know with the same birth-time.</p>
<p>Im writing mine about my biggest ec-karate. im talking aboutall the benefits it has given me as well as adding a unique voice</p>
<p>still have no freaking clue…</p>
<p>i need some inspiration, man :(</p>
<p>Gonna be a senior and I haven’t even thought about what I’m gonna write. Whatever.</p>