Archive for October, 2012
October 22, 2012
Having a hard time beginning to write your personal statement?
Writer’s block happens to everyone, especially when writing something with a major impact for your future within deadlines, starting with your personal statement. Three most common contributors to writer’s block are anxiety, self-consciousness, and feeling overwhelmed. In this blog post, I will address these three factors and provide you with tips on how to begin […]
October 15, 2012
A Personal Statement Game Plan
Muriel Rukeyser, an early 20th century American journalist, poet, and political activist once claimed that “The universe is made of stories, not atoms.” Now, Werner Heisenberg may or may not agree, but all you particle physicists and chemists probably just had a heart attack, so let me revise Ms. Rukeyser’s statement and apply it to […]