Personal Essay

I consider myself a 'dabbler' of sorts. I don't specialize in any particular skill or area. If you were to ask a casual acquaintance, you would probably get mixed results as to who I am in response. Oh, she's good at soccer; oh, she's really smart (not to toot my own horn, of course). There isn't really any outstanding, dominant feature about my person to mention.

Thanks to the Honor's retreat, I was able to find a grouping of friends rather quickly, and while I have become attuned to them, I can't help but feel forgotten sometimes. Their personalities are so colorful and vibrant, while mine tends to rest in neutrals. What do they know about me? Next to nothing; you could probably get the same type of mixed responses from my newly found college friends that you could from my high school peers.

But, when I start to feel angsty and mopey, I remember that neutrals are an essential to any wardrobe; you can only dress with so much color before it become ostentatious and you need a bit of khaki or gray to balance it out. I take pride in my personality and I find personality typing rather interesting.

I have come up with a few stimulating ideas for my personal essay, that, although they may not be pertaining to myself directly, they are questions I find interesting. I don't want to say I don't like talking about myself or my experiences with others, I usually rather enjoy it when others take an interest in me, however the chances are few and far between. I am actually looking forward to the personal essay, I just hope my internal critic, who sounds suspiciously like my AP Lang teacher, won't stifle the process too much; seriously, I mean it took me way longer to write this blog post than it really should have.