College Applications

Early action college applications are due in less than two weeks. I think I am not the only that is getting anxious about them due in such a short amount of time. I have basically all my application done except the essays, which are the hardest part by far. In a limited amount of words, you need to convey who you are along with your knowledge of grammar and the English language.

I am not a good writer. If you have seen my writing, you probably know this. My vocabulary is limited and my grammar is often times awkward and grammatically incorrect. In addition to this, the time it takes for me to write an equal quality essay compared to my peers time is double, even more. This has put stress on me along with fear that I am not going to get into my colleges because of the lack of my writing abilities.

The common app essay is by far the most important essay for the application, since every college that you apply through the common app will read this essay. This essay needs to convey who I am. I thought about this essay for a long time over fall break, thinking about what topic I could write it about. Several candidate topics formed in my mind. One was about the shogunate Takeda Shingen and how he has affected me. Another idea was about raiding in the game World of Warcraft and how it has affected me. I decided to go with the latter, since this topic is pretty unique (I mean who writes about World of Warcraft?) and I thought it would convey pretty well who I am.

Now I got this blog out of the way, I will resume my essay writing process. I wish good luck to everyone else who are working on their applications as well.