No.12 - Writing college essays
October 23, 2024•248 words
As you all know, I'm currently a senior going through college applications. I'm writing a post because I just faced the first ever struggle in writing a longer essay.
I find the greatest struggle throughout this entire (such draining) process to be writing personal statement.
How do people just find topics to write about?? I actually have about 10+ different topics that I started writing but just couldn't wrap up because I had no idea where the story would go and how it would convey my life story to the schools.
UNTIL NOW ACTUALLY
I was writing one of the supplementary essays then was like, "hey, this actually could be better off if it was written as my personal statement." So I started writing it out as my personal statement, except supplementary essay that I was writing had word count of 250 and personal statement takes up to 650 words.
I know I don't have to fill in all 650 words but...
First I found it extremely amazing that I ran out of things to talk about
Then I was like "ermm how did I cover everything I wanted to talk about in 300 words how is this even possible..."
Now I'm trying to make it longer so I can put more character into it except it's actually such a hassle because everytime I add something it only gets longer by around 50 words. I still have 200 words to go. Wish me luck guys.
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12/100 days