Personal statement reflection

I read a short story on read theory about a the authors experience getting into college and she had to write a personal statement and in the story the author talked about how her friend's complained about how the topic they have to write about how specific the question is but she isn't scared of writing but she is scared of the blank paper then the author talked about the process to write the essay and she started by mentally planing her essay and how shes gonna organize her writing and she was stressed out because a bad personal essay would be good if shes applying for college her goal was to let the reader get a good understanding about her but she also wants to get the reader to want to know her so she could get accepted in the college but her problem was that she couldn't find anything interesting about her self so she pondered for days thinking about her life so she could find something to write the essay about so she went to all her teachers for advice but they all said be your self but her problem was she didn't want to write about her self because she thought she was to boring to write about her self but then the idea hit her she thought she should write about who she wanted to be but not who she is she knew it wasn't original but its an idea so she set on writing down her essay.