How to write a winning scholarship essay - Gen Tanabe, Kelly Tanabe 2018

Creativity overload
12 essays that bombed

We’ve all heard the various analogies for life—“life is like a box of choco-lates,” “life is a sport” and so on. Wouldn’t it be clever if, somehow, you could create your own analogy of life? Surely it would show how deep of a thinker you are and how well you can write, right? Being clever is usually good. But sometimes it can go too far, wearing out a novel idea.

The highway of life

Life is like a highway with cars going in all directions. People are constantly coming and going from all sorts of places. Sometimes, when too many people want to go to the same place, traffic jams form, just as when too many people apply for a single position at a company.