I forgot it was Cinco De Mayo! I feel a Mexican lunch coming on 🙂
My college essays were all the 300 word, 4 essay types. Lame 🙁

That’s awesome that you’re feeling inspired! It’s been a while since I’ve been truly inspired and I miss it!

Goodness…I want your life. And that is so wrong of me! I wish I could get my head on straight!.

I don’t think I had to do an entrance essay…though I did two professional university degrees….can’t remember anyway…
then again, i can barely remember where my car keys are, etc …
🙂

so cool that you have another book in the works 🙂 i honestly don’t remember what i wrote my college essays on! how weird is that? must not have been that important to me, which is sort of sad!

Haha I was Vice Pres of the Spirit Club, that was the extent of my club activities in hs besides sports teams. I think I wrote my essay about my parents.

I wrote about being the first person under 18 to skydive in PA. I beleive I opened with some may-jah cheese, something along the lines of “my greatest experience so far on Earth has been in the sky!!!”

totally agree on not forcing writing, and it can be for anything, even boring ol’ resumes! Yesterday I was having such a hard time putting together an awesome, inspiring resume, even though I had more than enough qualifications for the job. I just wasn’t feeling it. Today as I was driving home from work, I was feeling more inspired and looking forward to work on it! (And who looks forward to writing resumes??)

Love when that happens. 🙂

I wrote about training to be a lifeguard, i.e. the time, dedication, etc that went into it. It sounds lame now but it was pretty inspiring, especially because the trainer told me on day one that I would never be big/strong/fast enough. He was so wrong!

Btw, I’m really excited that you are planning to write another book!

I live for the days where I’m inspired to write! (With a full-time marketing job, writing for “myself” is unfortunately not always practicable…). I LOVE slow Sundays where I can cozy up with my laptop in a cafe, drink coffee, and work on my stories!

(Major nerd alert here). It sounds like you were very inspired today. Yay! The feeling of fleshing out an idea, or even just writing a few solid paragraphs, is sometimes so exhilarating.

Anyway, I wrote my college essay on (not surprisingly) my love of creative writing, and how I felt from a very young age that I was “destined” to be a writer. Kind of florid, I know, but it *did* get me accepted into a school with a great writing program!

Your lunch looks great – pretty sure I’m going to have to have Mexican food for dinner!

My English teacher senior year was brilliant, and one of our paper assignments was our college essay!! We wrote it, peer edited, and got her feedback .. and then could submit it! I wrote about my high school lacrosse team.

Mine was about running in my hometown, passing a chicken coop and fresh cow manueur, and how 4 miles felt “so far”. Wow how things change in 1 1/2 years!

I love when I get the urge to write. It usually happens for me late at night though when I’m not really in my prime writing state of mind. But I usually make sure I at least write down the thoughts before they dissapear.

I can’t wait to hear what the second book is going to be about.

Would you believe that I have no idea what my college essays were about. Probably family or something lame like that.

Congrats on the book idea!! I wrote about the Titanic. Weird topic, I know, but I was literally OBSESSED with it in elementary school…not the movie, the ship itselt!! I wrote about how much of an influence it had on me, how it was my first true passion and how it made me love history. It must have made an impact, because when I went on my college visits two separate admissions people immediately remembered my name from it!

I have no idea what my essay was about (or even if I had to write one). It’s been too long. 🙁

I wrote about an encounter I had with a man in Boston as a freshman in high school, he took my money. The essay was about my faith in human nature, and how in just an hour, he shook it, and then the people at the restaurant we were at restored it by helping me. It was one of my finest works! 🙂

And by the way… nerd alert, I went to Math Camp in high school…

Going to a community college I didn’t write any college essays, but what a great idea!

I have been thinking about possibly writing a book of my own, but I write on it very rarely. Some days I wake up inspired, but they aren’t often. Whenever I try to force myself to write though, nothing comes out. I definitely need to wait for those days when inspiration hits!

I wrote about moving out when I was 16 and getting emancipated from my parents.

You lunch looks amazing.
I can’t even remember what I wrote my college application essay on!

so true. i also find that i write best in the morning. like, alarm goes off, i go to the kitchen and press on to make coffee, and head straight to my desk, stopping once i get hungry for breakfast and starting back at it right after. that’s why i try to schedule my classes and work for the afternoon. however, after awhile (sometimes it’s 2 hours, sometimes it’s 6) i start to slow down and the words just don’t flow as well. i’ve gotten better at learning that that is the time to just stop. the words will come again, most likely the next morning!

best of luck to you! this is so exciting!

I can relate…I wrote mine on being NHS president and starting an environmental club!

I wrote one on diversity in the educational system, one on why I wanted to pursue my major (Geology), and the hardest one, which was about overcoming hardship. More specifically, growing up with a chronic disease and overcoming the mental/physical aspect of that as well as how that experience has impacted me as a person. That one was actually (emotionally) hard to write… I didn’t exactly like sharing that with random people I didn’t know!

Allie- that sounds like an amazing essay. We didn’t write essays here either, but Caitlin, I love what you wrote about the fiercely inspiring moments. For grad school, I wrote my statements of intent on my research intentions – obviously food-retated!
I feel like I was born with pen (keyboard?) in my hand. I keep a small notebook on me at all times in which I write every cool paper idea or neat observation. I even record neat conversations that I hear around me that trigger new ideas. I love being in university and even now, going into my 3rd degree, I have barely scratched the surface of essays that I have in my notebook. I think of writing as my expressive currency. One of the best things about the blogosphere is the exposure to so many wonderful variants of “good” writing. Great post!

How the heck do you remember what you wrote about? I graduated HS in ’07 and I can’t even remember – hehe.

I recently asked for a quesidilla at a restaurant w/o cheese and got the weirdest look… I ended with the cheese : )

I wrote mine about struggling with my learning disabilities. I still have a copy and love to read it am realize how far I have come! Good luck with he concept of Book #2, I am sure ti will be amazing! PS miiiiisssss yoooooouuu!

Before my senior year of high school, I had worked four summers at a summer camp I grew up going to. I wrote about my growth through working there, and to this day I think often of this camp.

for one university I wrote a poem and a science experiment, and for another, wrote about the Baby-Sitters Club books. Remember those? haha. Well…. maybe my topics were unconventional, but I got into my top choice school, so yay! But I’ve been writing and struggling today on my grad school statement of purpose. It’s tough!

I’ve been thinking about my college essay recently. maybe it’ll be a blog post soon.

Totally know what you mean. I’m like that with college papers too- I can’t write it until I’m inspired to (which usually coincides with being pressed for time)!

My college essay topic was dramatic.

I was in theatre and my hs had an amazing drama program, thanks to our director. In my junior year, I was cast as the lead in Showboat, a reeeeally difficult, operatic, old musical, and not even 2 weeks into the show our director was arrested for embezzlement of school funds and escorted off the premises by the police! So many cast members dropped out but a few of us and a new, young director banded together and pulled a great show together. My theme was basically about being the lead in a show without a solid director and using that as a metaphor for taking direction in your own life.

Also, the slam poetry I sent to NYU probably helped me to get in. I helped to start a slam poetry club at my school that rivaled the Nuyorican! Haha…I now prefer to repress my dramatic urges whenever possible.

This is a totally apropos post, considering I’m stalling write an application essay for an internship I really want. I’m just not feeling the essay right now.

I wrote about misogynism in A Picture of Dorian Gray for my college essay.

I need to go out and buy artichokes immediately. What a great combo for the quesadilla. Mmmm.

For my college entrance essay I wrote about a woman who lived with us when I was growing up. She was a pregnant, exotic dancer who came to our family through Crisis Pregnancy Center. She was crazy, and it wasn’t until 10 years later that I realized how much her presence in our home impacted my life. It was great fodder for the essay. I was in 5th grade when she showed up to our house with an army bag filled with stripper clothes. We sat in her room, tried on the clothes, and she read tarot cards. No joke.