Thoreau's "Essay 1"

While you're writing Essay 1, you might derive inspiration from Thoreau's Walden. It's available free here: Google Books. If you can't read the whole chapter entitled "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For," at least start at "I went to the woods because . . ." on page 87 and read through to just before "Why should . . ." on page 89.

What's Your Gift?

One topic on which you'll be writing might be best named "What's Your Gift?" Other titles might be: Being a Hero in My Own Life, What Matters to Me, and the like. So here are two content go-bys for you: one from Study Hacks about MIT economics professor Esther Duflo and a fantastic free online book in pdf form: What Matters Now.