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College Apps, whats that?

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     College essays, where do I even begin. The week we started discussing college essays and Mrs. Feldkamp said "It's about the WHAT and HOW" is when I realized I had none of those in mind and I might possibly be behind the whole class. My legs started shaking and my mind went all over the place, stressing over the million possible things I could write about. Do I trauma dump? Nah, colleges don't want that. Do I write about my failures in high school? No, too cliche. Do I talk about about my anemia? Nah, I don't want pity. Every single idea I came up with was a failure to me. Every. Single. One.  I finally got over my writer's block and stopped whining. I made a list of legit ideas and started drafting instead of overthinking about what's good and what's not good. I started getting the flow of things but wasn't content with my writing. So, therefore, I took a break. Now you may ask why take a break in the middle of something so good. My thoughts w...