Does this essay topic sound terribly boring?

College Essays
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For the Common App, I’m thinking about writing the impact of my mother earning a B.A. degree in English Literature during my high school years. It made me realize how liberating higher-level education can be both to my mother and me–how she transcended the limits of the domestic realm & her outlook changed on a lot of things, and how I appeased my intellectual thirst by learning her material & almost reverse-parented her (she’s not a native English speaker) by helping her with schoolwork and social situations she’s become so unfamiliar with.

So I guess I’m technically first-generation-turned-not.

Fall-asleep-on-your-desk or no? Should I try to take a more unique approach?

For the Activities Supplement, I’m thinking about either

  1. Creative process of editing
  2. Involvement in LGBT rights (I live in a uniquely homophobic region)
  3. The time I wrote a scathing article & got into huge trouble with government bureau

Which one do you think is best?

Thanks!

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All of those sound very interesting, but it ultimately depends on how you write it. I’d write whatever you have fleshed out the most and see how it turns out.

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3 as long as it doesn't call into question your judgment ... which it might.