Please excuse the spelling errors ahead of time (I am very tiered and this keyboard is very annoying).
So...I have a ton of activities appropriate for this section -- sewing, knitting, embroidering, beadworking, jewelry making, electrical repairs, some carpentry, laying tiles, piano and painting. I do not talk too much about the breadth of the specific manual dexterity activities in my personal statement, just about what handiwork means to me/gives me and why do I enjoy it (I work in a theater costume constructing costumes for the main stage productions and one of my loes is coming from my supervisor/former professor who knows my work well and am hoping will talk about some of the specific projects that I have done and the technical skill involved) but I still want to highlight the depth of my abilities in this section. If you could give me your feedback on what you did I would greatly appreciate it.
Full sentances or fragments?
Past or present tense?
I chose resume-style fragments in past tense (although I still do many of these things I was thinking about this interms of projects I completed) but am questioning this decision.
A sample activity discription on my statement reads as follows:
"Sewing -- constructed complicated garments ranging from suit jackets to corsets to formal dresses.
Knitting -- costructed garments ranging from scarfs to dresses. Created my own patterns.
Beadworking -- created and excecuted designs to embelish various garments including bridal wear.
Electrical repairs -- rewired internet and electrical cables and assembled outlets. And so on"
Or are they looking for completly different kinds of answers?!
So...I have a ton of activities appropriate for this section -- sewing, knitting, embroidering, beadworking, jewelry making, electrical repairs, some carpentry, laying tiles, piano and painting. I do not talk too much about the breadth of the specific manual dexterity activities in my personal statement, just about what handiwork means to me/gives me and why do I enjoy it (I work in a theater costume constructing costumes for the main stage productions and one of my loes is coming from my supervisor/former professor who knows my work well and am hoping will talk about some of the specific projects that I have done and the technical skill involved) but I still want to highlight the depth of my abilities in this section. If you could give me your feedback on what you did I would greatly appreciate it.
Full sentances or fragments?
Past or present tense?
I chose resume-style fragments in past tense (although I still do many of these things I was thinking about this interms of projects I completed) but am questioning this decision.
A sample activity discription on my statement reads as follows:
"Sewing -- constructed complicated garments ranging from suit jackets to corsets to formal dresses.
Knitting -- costructed garments ranging from scarfs to dresses. Created my own patterns.
Beadworking -- created and excecuted designs to embelish various garments including bridal wear.
Electrical repairs -- rewired internet and electrical cables and assembled outlets. And so on"
Or are they looking for completly different kinds of answers?!
