Writing Your College Essays

Writing Your College Essays August 23, 2012 Put away your iphone. No more text messages. No more phone calls. Its high time to stop procrastinating. Its time to start writing your college essays if you havent done so already (photo credit: Zach Vega). School is about to start if it hasnt already in your neck of the woods! If you are a rising high school senior and you havent started writing your college essays, what on earth have you been waiting for? Are you waiting for schoolwork to pile up? Are you waiting to write you college essays in between studying for an AP Calculus exam and writing an AP Government paper? You must be kidding. We told you to start your college essays at the beginning of the summer. After all, during the summer months, youve got a much more relaxed schedule no matter what youre doing. Youre not required to be in school for several hours every day. You dont have nightly homework assignments. Youre not studying for important exams and writing important papers. We dont know why you chose to wait until the last minute but, if you have, the time is now to stop procrastinating! Were approaching the beginning of the school year. Your coursework hasnt starting piling up just yet. So sit down at your computer, close the door, dont answer your phone, ignore your text messages, and write your college essays! Do you really want to waste more time? Do you really want to have to cram in your essays when you have little time to truly devote to them? Do you really want to submit subpar essays to the highly selective colleges that you hope to get into? We dont think so! Its high time to prioritize. Tell your friends that you cant see them for a while. Tell your girlfriend or boyfriend that movie will have to wait. Turn off your iphone! Seriously. Turn it off. No, not later. Now! Its just facilitating your procrastination. Get going. Ready go. Theyre only likely the single most important essays youll ever write in your whole life! Were not kidding.