Sebastian spent the entire summer before his bridge year in high school working on his college essay. To start, I asked him to make some bullet points jotting down his strongest memories in order to brainstorm for a topic. Sebastian had a truly wonderful high school experience, so I was excited to see what he came up with and I wondered what I might learn about my son.

Writing doesn’t always come easily for Sebastian, but to my surprise he came up with a topic rather quickly. Unsurprisingly, it had to do with one of the few difficult situations he had to manage in high school during his freshman year.

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