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I am considering 2 ideas for "describe a time you failed" secondary essays, and would appreciate your thoughts on which would be more interesting!
1) Applied for a bunch of research fellowships, but my scientific writing was far too dense and I ignored advice from my reviewers. The experience taught me to value peer feedback, write for a target audience rather than myself, and persevere through failure. I took these lessons to heart, refined my writing, and eventually earned a fellowship.
2) An especially difficult research project where I made essentially no progress for a year, but through various modifications to my protocols I finally got informative results (I already described this in my "significant research experience" essay for AMCAS though)
My struggles with #1 and #2 actually happened at the same time, so could I work them both in?
1) Applied for a bunch of research fellowships, but my scientific writing was far too dense and I ignored advice from my reviewers. The experience taught me to value peer feedback, write for a target audience rather than myself, and persevere through failure. I took these lessons to heart, refined my writing, and eventually earned a fellowship.
2) An especially difficult research project where I made essentially no progress for a year, but through various modifications to my protocols I finally got informative results (I already described this in my "significant research experience" essay for AMCAS though)
My struggles with #1 and #2 actually happened at the same time, so could I work them both in?