Worst Titles for College Essays

Pre-College Issues High School Life
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<p>Inside Men: My Experience as an Undercover Journalist in the Gay Community</p>

102

<p>“Me, Myself And I: All About My Talented Self”
“Why I Didn’t Apply to Harvard”
“Harry Potter Is Satanic”
“Texting: The Modern Alternative to Talking”
“NASA: The Great Conspiracy”
“Communism For the Average American”
“College is Overrated”
“Serving the Westboro Baptist Church”</p>

103

<p>“Troy Davis was Innocent”
“Obama Bin Laden”
“Big Lurch and his Big Lunch”</p>

<p>And last but certainly not least</p>

<p>“How to be the next Seung-Hui Cho in 5 easy steps”</p>

104

<p>“AMERICAN PSYCHO: the American dream”</p>

<p>“My brother is at Harvard - That’s why I chose Yale”</p>

<p>“Orientalism and the forgotten miso soup”</p>

<p>“Rasputin lives on: my cult and other orgies”</p>

105

<p>“Why the Jews Deserved It”
“Murder of the Parents: A Recount of the Fateful Night”
“This is an Essay”
“My Gratuitous Endowment”
“Why Heroin Addiction Gets a Bad Rap”
“God I Am So ****ing High Right Now”
“Are you an Atheist, Admissions Officer? This Essay Will Change Your Mind”
“Why I Believe Kurt Cobain Committed 9/11”</p>

106

<p>“I Can’t Tell My Parents What I Do on Saturday Nights”</p>

<p>I actually think this will be the title for my essay… lol</p>

107

<p>“My College Essay”</p>

<p>(random text)</p>

<p>–Sent from my iPhone 4.</p>

108

<p>What invention would the world be better off without and why?</p>

<p>Computers, because then I wouldn’t have to be writing this right now.</p>

109

<p>“Thug Life: How the streets shaped me into the student I am today”</p>

110

<p>“A Thug’s Life” lol</p>

111

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<p>All of you need to bask in all this thugnificence.</p>

<p>“The real joys of prison showers”</p>

112

<p>Why Sharkboy and Lavagirl is my favorite movie</p>

113

<p>@nicetomeetyou, good one! I remember that movie; haha.</p>

<p>Is this to say that most college essays <em>do</em> have titles? Mine doesn’t, and I’m wondering if I should add one now…</p>

114

<p>^ Well there’s a ton of good title ideas on this thread. Take your pick.</p>

115

<p>How my life changed</p>

116

<p>Our Ideas Are Not Immortal: Humanism and Progress as Delusions of Grandeur</p>

117

<p>How I killed my teacher …</p>

118

<p>How to get your virginity back</p>

119

<p>‘Your name’<br>
12/30/11<br>
College Essay</p>