Essays: Past or present?

CrystallizedSnow
Sat, 24 Nov 2012 18:14:31 +0000

For my essay, I talk about several memories of mine and how they have shaped me. However, I thought that if I kept it in the past tense it would be too detached from the reader. Thus I wrote it in present tense to hopefully bring the reader into the scene. But someone said that it could get confusing since it does deal with memories.

Thus I face either an essay completely in present tense or mostly past and a sentence or two in the present. So what would be preferable?