This is how you do...

A good personal essay is just like a historic moment where you know exactly where you were when it happened. With a personal essay, you remember exactly what it was saying. I have been so wrapped up in the collection of these personal essay from college students in 2007, reading one after another. The hyperlinked one however was one that I felt had to be shared.

The point of this blog is to show pieces that could use some editing or atleast editor's better judgment. But sometimes it is just as important to share the work that is perfect all its own.

If I ever had to teach a class how to do a personal essay this example would be spotlighted, because it does precisely what a personal essay should: (and I didn't know what a personal essay should do until I read it) it takes something that the reader cares tremendously about and frames it in a way that could captivate anyone.

http://essay.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/09/26/university-days/