I am going to make some other suggestions, and unfortunately it will require more work. First thing one learns in a creative writing class: write what you know.
If you don't know anything about baseball, why write about it for this assignment? Pick something familiar.
Second thing, flat characters are predictable. If we were in their heads hearing their thoughts we can predict the next thing. This is why they are stock characters. Think comic relief. Round characters, when we get in their head, we follow their reflections and not predict them.
This is why fiction always has a problem or conflict in it, else what the hell can you write about? Without a conflict, you are writing a descriptive piece.
So since we both are in college, what is college know for aside from learning? Drama! What is more dramatic than...
Ending a college relationship!
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Originally Posted by Martian
I disagree with this. The humanity of the character is in the details. Growth through conflict is one way to bring that out, but there isn't really room to explore that in a one page character study. Other literary techniques will be more effective for a piece of this nature.
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There may be other ways of going about it, and while you are probably right, I would not go about this assignment like this. If we read only about what the character is and does on a daily basis, what else is to him? To me, we have invented a flat character with a colorful history like our own. But why should we care?
If inside we find that there is a conflict, and we can observe how this conflict is dealt with, then we have an actual character that lives and breathes, not just an image or a statue of a person.
These are just my interpretations of the assignment and flat/round characters.