For my college entry essay, the question that my college asked was quite boring...I decided to take Gonzaga U's question of "if you were to take a long trip, what item would you place under your pillow to take with you" and modify it to:
"If you were stranded in the open ocean, what three items would you bring with you?"
I decided to bring a rubber chicken, a spork, and a shower cap.
I made sure to ellicit the great values of those three items as survival tools, in the most absurd possible way. No, I didn't want to get into that college, but the bastards let me in anyway. They must haver really appreciated the shower cap.
Oh, and by the way, I am a trained tuba player....yes, it's good for a lot of jokes. Being Jewish, a tuba player, and slightly portly ensures a steady stream of available joke fodder.