Help! Writer's Block

College Essays
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<p>At the last moment I have decided to apply to the University of Chicago. However, their topics area bit out there and I can’t seem to think of a good topic to write about.
ESSAY OPTION 1
Find x.
ESSAY OPTION 2
Dog and Cat. Coffee and Tea. Great Gatsby and Catcher in the Rye. Everyone knows there are two types of people in the world. What are they?
ESSAY OPTION 3
Salt, governments, beliefs, and celebrity couples are a few examples of things that can be dissolved. You’ve just been granted the power to dissolve anything: physical, metaphorical, abstract, concrete… you name it. What do you dissolve, and what solvent do you use?
ESSAY OPTION 4
“Honesty is the best policy, but honesty won’t get your friend free birthday cake at the diner.” —Overheard in the city of Chicago</p>

<p>Does society require constant honesty? Why is it (or why is it not) problematic to shift the truth in one’s favor, even if the lie is seemingly harmless to others? If we can be “conveniently honest,” what other virtues might we take more lightly?
ESSAY OPTION 5
Choose your own topic</p>

<p>Any ideas or methods to get some ideas rolling?</p>

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<p>Essay 1 ideas:
you’re finding the letter x in the world. I’d write about how I gave myself a mission to steal a block X from a XXX store in a sketchy neighborhood. </p>

<p>Essay 2 ideas:
you mean you don’t know what the two types of people in this world are!? </p>

<p>Essay 3:
I’d avoid this essay. It just seems pretty lame…</p>

<p>Essay 4:
You can go the honest route here or a more satirical route. I’d do the latter, as being serious = being boring. I’d maybe imagine a world with complete honesty or with none at all. That seems pretty promising for both routes. </p>

<p>Essay 5:
C’mon there must be something you’ve always wanted to write about. Like what someone might say at your funeral, or how Abraham Lincoln relates to starving children, or why the media is obsessed with shortening TV titles in commercials, or something related to spying (like imagine yourself as a spy or imagine what someone would think spying on you). These are things I might consider, as I’ve always been attracted to spy thrillers and the TV thing is a pet peeve of mine.</p>