Thursday, October 13, 2011

grad school better be worth this

Here's what it looks like to write an essay for graduate school:

Google:
"How to write a personal statement"
"Yale statistics"
"Yale GRE scores"
"Notre Dame GRE scores"

open word document. read 11 pages of drafting. cut. paste. read opening paragraph. read it again.

Google:
"catchy opening statements graduate school"
"gradcafe.com MDiv personal statement"
"Boston College admissions"
"Boston Museum of Fine Arts"
"bus Boston-NH"
"Portsmouth NH shows"

bullet points: what makes me unique. why i am special. why you should accept me into your school and then give me 40,000 a year. 

... i like jesus. also i like ... philosophy... and ... the color... green ...

Google:
"why graduate school"
"WWOOFing in Italy"
"culinary schools"
"massage therapy"
"spas in lexington ky"

open a new word document. (entitled "Another Statement of Intent" in order to distinguish it from documents "Statement of Intent" and "New Statement of Intent") catchy opening statement: "i have been worrying over Truth since...".

Google:
"worrying definition"
"What the Bible Says About Worry"
     -> "What the Bible Says about Women in Ministry"
          -> Wikipedia: Famous Female Philosophers
               -> Simone de Beauvoir
                    >-existentialism
                        -> Monty Python
                             -> Fawlty Towers "The Germans'
Youtube: "fawlty towers the germans"


hahahahhaaaaaa ooooh nooooo. Open Another Statement of Intent. WRITE! SOMETHING! YOU ARE SPECIAL! YOU ARE UNIQUE! COMMUNICATE! COMMUNICATE!

"I want to get a Masters of Divinity because I love to write. It's easy for me, and I enjoy it. I can write for hours and hours at a time without noticing the outside world at all. In fact, sometimes I get lost in language to the extent that I forget to eat, or cease to notice people around me."

Google:
"do writers really like writing"
"Stephen King: 7 Tips for Becoming a Better Writer"

eat a muffin. make some coffee. stretch.

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2 comments:

camilla said...

I love you!

I know I owe you an email...


->I will email!
->Did I mention that I love you?!
-> I miss you! xxxxx

Liz Zelie said...

It's so true! Probably the reason that once you are in grad school (like me!) you stop using the Internet - way too much of a time waster! I post FB updates from my phone, upload blog posts, other than that, I try to stay away from Google.

I had fun writing about "what makes me different" than other people but some of the other essays were ridiculous. You will do fine, though, I know it!