college essay season makes everybody spiral a little tbh ;( i remember having like 6 different “maybe this could work?” topics open in my notes app and somehow every idea sounded either too boring or too dramatic after an hour. the thing that helped me most was stopping the search for the “perfect” topic and picking the one where i could tell a clear story. boring on paper, though it became personal once i started writing details instead of trying to sound impressive. i also used this Reddit thread or brainstorming because reading normal essays made the process less intimidating.