Journal Prompt 3

By far the hardest essay I have ever written was the college application essay. This is because I was facing writer's block for about 4 hours at a time, 7 days a week. I had no clue what to write about and didn't know where to start since all the universities only asked for more about myself. How am I suppose to know what to write about myself in less than 500 words when I have been living now for 18 years? How do I sum up all those years into such a short essay?

The one essay that I thought was the most pointless and boring were the SAT essays. I feel like I didn't even get into those essays and all I was doing was making up information just to get it done. I feel like the SAT readers didn't care how good of a writer I am and rather see how much I can write about a worthless topic in 30 minutes. I couldn't afford writer's block or else I wouldn't have enough to get a passing grade. The thing I never understood is why don't they care if you finish or not, isn't that the whole reason of writing an essay?

In 5th grade I remember making my first outline for an essay about any topic we may choose. I chose baseball because this was a new thing in my life since I had just began starting to play and it was currently in the middle of the little league season. The outline that I made look horrendous, it turned out to be the worst one in the class and looked like the paper was the floor mat right after everyone got back to class from playing in the dirt. I would have never done it if it wasn't a part of our essay grade because I felt it was more confusing then helpful.

One of my favorite essays to write was in 11th grade. The essay was to be about our lives and how we have changed over time. When I heard this at my desk I got really excited because this was a moment for me to open up about my personal life and how interesting has been. It ended up not being what she was looking for, but I didn't care because I liked what I wrote. The grade didn't matter to me because either way I was going to make up for it.

The last essay and most recent one I have written I would also consider to be fantastic to write. I had to create a man (warrior) from ancient Greece and create journal entries about his life. Since I am a big fan of the whole creative writing thing, I didn't feel like it was that bad since I had no struggle in what to write about. The only thing that sucked was having to pick events, and was so hard to do because there were so many crucial events that had a lot of information on. Writing the essay was actually a lot of fun and it was my first college essay.