Need to focus on something that is personal significance to you. This can be an interesting place,situation, or event.  The purpose of this essay is to create a verbal snapshot of an artifact, and form this text, your reader should be able to generate a clear mental image of what your essay is describing. More importantly, the reader should walk away knowing why this thing is important enough to warrant being the focus of a college essay. Remember this is not a narrative, so you will not be telling the story of your subject, rather you will be creating something like a profile of a subject. The best topics for description essays often focus on small, localized places, such as interesting business, family locales, etc., or repeated events such as festivals or unique family traditions, etc., DO NOT WEITE ABOUT INDIVIDUAL PEOPLE,ANIMALS,or small objects.