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Thanks for your reply!! My advisor did give me letters from past students, except that I have done my statements/letters of interest and then ...avoided writing to write these recommendation letters. The depressing things in having to write these letters is that I realize now how much time I wasted on stuff that 'don't count' at the expense of writing papers..I simply did not know from the get go how important papers are. I now have to write the letters and I can see from past students who ended up being successful and who didn't. I am stuck with framing every piece of my experience in a positive light (instead of making it sound like an excuse) for why I wasn't productive.
If you don't mind me asking, what was it that you were doing? Please do not share specifics if you do not feel comfortable doing so, but are you sure it was completely unproductive?
Also, I am not sure how helpful it is to focus this much on what other people did, as the social comparison does not seem to be making it easier to write the letters. You might be downplaying your own work.