How do you start a personal statement?

[icevermin]

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Wow this is really challenging. I'm trying to apply for some summer research internships and I can't even begin my personal statement for any of them. How do I freaking BEGIN this damn thing!? I have dodged it for a week but I have to get serious now. Thanks!

 

[BBender716]

Pretty please admit me. Thank you. Oh, I'd be a really great doctor, too!


Peace.
Icevermin

 

[mmmcdowe]

Just start writing, figure out what you want to use later.

 

[kavorca]

A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away...

 

[FloatOn]

HOKAY, so here's the earth...

Seriously, just word vomit and it'll come to you. Any quality thing that I've ever written has been composed out of order. That would be why I suck at in-class essays.

 

[vanasme]

I actually like having a detailed outline before I start writing the body of the essay. Try listing out a couple of things you might want to talk about. Then arrange everything in an order that makes sense and start writing. Good Luck!

 

[RogueUnicorn]

with gusto

 

[NickNaylor]

Step 1: Think about your college experience and what has been most influential to you.

Step 2: Figure out what experiences, events, whatever has caused you to become a doctor.

Step 3: Demonstrate that you know enough about yourself and the medical field to make the decision to become a doctor.

Step 4: PROFIT

 

[LizzyM]

Have mercy on us, the readers, and do not begin with lights and sirens, a dialogue between two EMTs, or a quote from literature. Thank you.

 

[BBender716]

Have mercy on us, the readers, and do not begin with lights and sirens, a dialogue between two EMTs, or a quote from literature. Thank you.

lol so true...

 

[FuSoYa]

Have mercy on us, the readers, and do not begin with lights and sirens, a dialogue between two EMTs, or a quote from literature. Thank you.

LOL that was one of my very early rough drafts, thank goodness none of it made the final cut.

 

[circulus vitios]

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you accept me now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

 

[Geekchick921]

Step 1: Think about your college experience and what has been most influential to you.

Step 2: Figure out what experiences, events, whatever has caused you to become a doctor.

Step 3: Demonstrate that you know enough about yourself and the medical field to make the decision to become a doctor.

Step 4: PROFIT

But when do we steal underpants?

 

[jvesco22]

start it off like this...

Now, this is the story all about how
My life got flipped-turned upside down
And I'd like to take a minute
Just sit right there
I'll tell you how I came to the decision of being a doctor of care

The rest will come naturally...

 

[BBender716]

I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you accept me now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.

FTW!!

 

[RogueUnicorn]

Step 1: Think about your college experience and what has been most influential to you.

Step 2: Figure out what experiences, events, whatever has caused you to become a doctor.

Step 3: Demonstrate that you know enough about yourself and the medical field to make the decision to become a doctor.

Step 4: ????

Step 5: PROFIT

fixed