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I'm really, really struggling what to write about in my diversity essay. All my topics have been sort of mentioned in either my personal statement or my activities list. I would seriously appreciate any help or suggestions I can get...
1) Being a first-gen student. But I struggle to figure out what to say about this so probably isn't good. Just immediately came up when I thought of "diverse".
2) Having lots of teaching experiences - tutoring subjects. tutoring MCAT. teaching internship while studying abroad. Peer mentoring. Teaching my parents who don't speak english. I wanted to write about how my communication skills really got good here, helps me to appreciate the different backgrounds of people I meet. Only issue is that these are all activities that I have in my W/A section (but not MME)
In my activities section, for takeaways I did talk about learning to adapt to a new teaching curriculum (abroad one) and collaborating with students when I didn't know the answer (the other stuff) and sharing my own experiences (peer mentoring). But what I didn't talk about was the whole taking the person's background into perspective, being super patient with understanding what he/she knows/doesn't know because they're experiences are different from mine, etc. I think that's what I would stress? Again, important for communication, important for appreciating diversity I guess...?
3) Fitness/nutrition. Idk, lost a good chunk of weight. Really think fitness is important, role it plays in decreasing stress, I personally think it can be used to prevent alot of disease, helped me to find a good life-work balance,
thank youuuu
1) Being a first-gen student. But I struggle to figure out what to say about this so probably isn't good. Just immediately came up when I thought of "diverse".
2) Having lots of teaching experiences - tutoring subjects. tutoring MCAT. teaching internship while studying abroad. Peer mentoring. Teaching my parents who don't speak english. I wanted to write about how my communication skills really got good here, helps me to appreciate the different backgrounds of people I meet. Only issue is that these are all activities that I have in my W/A section (but not MME)
In my activities section, for takeaways I did talk about learning to adapt to a new teaching curriculum (abroad one) and collaborating with students when I didn't know the answer (the other stuff) and sharing my own experiences (peer mentoring). But what I didn't talk about was the whole taking the person's background into perspective, being super patient with understanding what he/she knows/doesn't know because they're experiences are different from mine, etc. I think that's what I would stress? Again, important for communication, important for appreciating diversity I guess...?
3) Fitness/nutrition. Idk, lost a good chunk of weight. Really think fitness is important, role it plays in decreasing stress, I personally think it can be used to prevent alot of disease, helped me to find a good life-work balance,
thank youuuu
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