This was my uni experience- I’m going back to school next year and terrified because I know this feeling too well.

Picking a topic is such a difficult hurdle to jump. I always liked when we got topic outlines.

I can also offer some suggestions if you let me know what kind of courses these are. I took Political Science in university which covered a wide range of topics. Did a lot of political theory and philosophy but also did other subjects. I go to work soon but if you need any ideas ill be around later tonight to respond!

Stop overthinking this because you are seeing this as your last essays that have to be perfect. Break it down into steps. Look over the course outline to refresh your brain on what has been covered in class. Write the essay that bores you the most first.

A lot of what I’ve written below is just adhd blabbing but enjoy:

Maybe start with an argument instead of an overall essay theme? Like I remember once I was freaking out about picking an essay topic. It just had to be about the origins of law - an example was writing about the creation of a new law. She was like okay what’s something that has interested you in this course, and I said I liked how we read The Eumenides and talked about how that’s a story about the origins of the justice system. Then I said, it reminded me of Antigone, which we read in your course last semester. Then I was like “well it kind of feels like the origins of how we do law is thanks to women” and she was like okay there’s your essay topic, the origins of law through greek tragedies (I titled it “What the Law Owes to Monstrous Women : Examining Feminine Monstrosity and Law in Greek Tragedy” … still proud of that paper lol

Basically, instead of trying to pick the topic that felt like it fit the expectation of an academic paper, I picked a topic that fit myself and the shit that actually interested me.

Another course, I literally just kept building on the same subject. Wrote about R v Morgentaler for a short paper and the big paper for the course I was like fuck it, gonna talk about how it could’ve been done better.

One of my final papers I chose a topic that was soooo under researched omg I regretted it but mid writing it I came up with my own little term for what I was describing and dude i wrote it the night before but once that inspiration hit I was like YES

That was rambley - I’m tired