<p>Is writing an essay about my first kiss with lots of reflective humor in it a good idea? And is this type of essay used often? or am I being original with this?</p>
<p>Don’t put too much stock in having an original topic.</p>
<p>It is not the topic, it is what you do with the topic.</p>
<p>Choose whatever topic allows for your most personal, detailed/specific, and revealing essay. The essay that, ideally, is so you that only you could write it.</p>
<p>Thank for giving information</p>
<p>Still it could be a good idea. But if so that is because is revealing of you, not because few others might have used it.</p>
<p>Haha! This reminded me of how I started me UChicago essay:</p>
<p>“How many Mexicans does it take to change a lightbulb?”</p>
<p>If you can really show how it relates to you or how it changed/affected you. I wrote my college essays about asking a girl to formal my junior year and how that made me a more outgoing person who cares for others more and pursues friendship.</p>
<p>Got into some colleges with a lower SAT than their averages, like USC and Berkeley-that to say my essays must have played a key role.</p>