 The obstacles essay can go in so many ways, but bitter, frustrated, and angry should not be your end point. Stay tuned to learn how to make the admission officers rally for you and root for you. Thank you for joining me on my channel. For the best college essay advice, stay tuned, subscribe, and hit the bell. Come on, you can do it. This essay is your typical superhero storyline. We don't dwell too much on how uncool Peter Parker was. We want to ride along with Spider-Man, conquering new mountains, saving the world. So, by the end of this video, you'll have expert tips on how to make sure that you maximize engagement by kind of really thinking about where to put problem, where to put solution, and really focus on how you overcome challenges. Hi, I'm Dr. Josie with Write Your Acceptance as a college essay expert and faculty member at a university. I know how to make them remember you. And now it's your turn. Tip one, total truth talk here. If this were the only piece of information they had about you, will they want you in their school? Think about it. Do you sound arrogant, whining like everything is everybody else's fault? These are true questions they shall be knows. Tip two, think about how much room there is between how did I react in this situation and how should I have reacted in this situation? If there was, meaning you didn't react in the most ideal sense of the way, then you put that in the beginning. You kind of discuss what you learned reflected upon that. And then when you were approaching a similar situation, how did you behave differently? How did you learn that lesson? Or how did you help pave the way for someone else to have an easier time when confronting a similar situation? So you pave the lesson forward. Do you have your obstacle experience you want to share? But you don't know if it's as triumphant as it should be. Comment below. I'd love to help. Tip three, towards the end of the essay, add like a one liner reflector where you are thinking about how adversity comes with growth and there's a positive to challenges or obstacles. How there's no perfect pristine path that everyone has to follow to meet that growth and learn. And so kind of hit them with some smarty pants status so that they really see that you are critically engaging with the experience. You're not just kind of staying within the kind of plot points of what happened. It's all about how you divvy up your essay in real estate. What do you start with? What do you end with? What's in the middle? I have a free college essay guide download in the description below. It asks you all the right questions on how to structure your essay for whatever type it is. And I give you kind of presentations and other short videos on how to write an effective anecdote to really punch up that creative element in your essay. And if you found this helpful, this video helpful, please give us a boom, boom on the comments below. Give us a like, subscribe and share with your fellow college bound friends. I'll see you soon. Thank you so much. Bye.