When I think of my worst piece of writing, there isn’t one specific piece that comes to mind.
When I don’t take enough time or when I feel passionate about the topic but execute the prompt poorly, I feel like those are my worse writing pieces. I feel like my writings also fail when I’m not passionate about a prompt and I don’t put enough effort into it. For example, prior to attending Ole Miss, I applied to Notre Dame where I was required to write five supplementals. There were some topics that I felt passionate about and some that I didn’t. I felt like I had really good ideas and could execute them very well, but I felt cut for time and had a very negative mindset that I wasn’t going to get accepted anyway. So, I executed the pieces extremely poorly and wish I would’ve set aside enough time and had a better plan to write those pieces. Sometimes I still think if I would’ve written the pieces the way I know I could’ve I would have been accepted.
I’m sorry you had such a negative experience writing the supplementals for your Notre Dame application. (Also: 5? That seems like . . . a lot, both for you to write and for them to read.) Even though I don’t require timed writing in WRIT 101, I’d be happy to talk about ways to do timed writing more effectively if you’d like! Just email me a question, text me a question, drop by a Zoom student hour, or set up a conference.