Please need Help with brainstorming with my Meaningful Experience section 8)

[Hongiddong]

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Hi SDN,

I was wondering if you could tell me some more ideas or advise me to delete some of my ideas so that I don't sound too cliched.

I wanted to write about my research experienceand talk about the moment where my professor showed me the rough draft of the paper that I will be a co-author on.
1. Great appreciation for scientific efforts as I experienced first hand the meticulous work, pipetting all day....
2. From the entire experience, learned about what P.I.'s do such as fight for funds, manage the lab, and make new ideas.
4. I'm not sure what else I can write to make it sound like it was "Meaningful" ??????

I also wanted to write about my Supplementary Instruction Leader experience.
1. I'm going to be using an incident where my student who was failing, succeeded through my help. And I still keep in contact with this student and mentor the student.
2. Positive impact on my community felt fulfililing and rewarding when the students thanked me and
3. A glimpse of the medical field as I don't want to give out bad answers, because it may be life-threatening.
4????/

Lastly, I wanted to talk about my volunteer experience at my old elementary school where I tutored under privleged kids in math, reading, and writing.

1. I am kind of stuck, I am having a brain fart and super writers block for this one...

 

[aegistitan]

meticulous work, pipetting all day.... establishes a tone you may not want

The actual wet lab techniques are the easiest/least important part of the research experience. If you write about the experience as you stated it comes off as, "Oh I was just doing whatever I was told to do in the lab and one day my PI surprised me and said I can be a co-author on the paper I contributed to by acting as a technician and doing little critical thinking or experimental design"

 

[Hongiddong]

wow thanks aegistitan! Your comment is what really happened lol!!!

 

[ShakaChaka]

For my meaningful experience, I went to broad and then specific. If you can't find a specific, I just talked about the experience broadly.

I think what you have is good for the instruction position. I would possibly talk about what you learned from that position.

Again, for your volunteering position, I would talk about what you learned and maybe throw in a specific example of a moment that made a lasting impression and was meaningful to you.

Hope this helps.