Essay Topics?

College Essays
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<p>I sort of have a few ideas for my common app essay, but I really don’t know what to go with:</p>

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<li><p>Not ever really fitting into my hometown, and not realizing this until I started going to prep school. I was going to describe one materialistic aspect of people, like shoes for example, and show that I was trying to fit into something that I wasn’t back home, but now my true tastes have shown at my new school.</p></li>
<li><p>An incident where I was supposed to draw blood from an old lady (I work as a phlebotomist at my local hospital), but she hid herself in the bathroom for five hours, and I wasn’t able to do it. We tried coaxing her out, and it was pretty funny looking back at it.</p></li>
<li><p>How Kanye is in some ways a person that I admire through his music and the meanings of his lyrics. </p></li>
<li><p>A quote from my grandpa that I can never truly be American, even though I was born in America, lived here all my live, etc.</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for the help.</p>

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<p>Please feel free to critique.</p>

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<ol>
<li> Sounds like you’d be bashing people - not a good idea</li>
<li> You didn’t succeed, and you’re laughing at scared old people - funny, but no a good idea</li>
<li> Not bad, may be a specific example</li>
<li> What are you then? Again, alienating yourself is not a good idea</li>
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<p>Seems like you try to alienate yourself, or try not to fit in. This isn’t a bad thing necessarily, butjust an observation. You should be trying to figure out how to show why your uniqueness helps and improves your surroundings and/or society, not why you can’t fit in them.</p>

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<p>Don’t write about phlebotemy or Kanye. You probably already have your essay by now though.</p>