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Sep. 24th, 2010 09:38 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
forestofglorySo I'm working on grad school apps. Not as much as I should be but I'm at least thinking about it.
Cal wants a personal statement as well as the statement of purpose. They want me to write about challenges I have overcome. The list they ofter suggests that I should write about being a women in the sciences, or having a learning disability, or my depression issues. And I really don't want to write about any of those things.
When I applied to Cambridge I wrote about my depression, the breakdown I had when I was 16. I felt I owed them a explanation, a reason I why I was 22 and not in college. Why I was such a fuckup but they should let me in anyways. I guess it helped because I got in. However I don't want to do that again.
I don't feel I owe that to grad school. I don't want them to take me because of my issues. I don't want to have to talk about personal stuff it hurts to dreg up to get into grad school. I don't want to tell them about how I was oppressed (I got off lightly in this regard, anyways) or how I'm disabled (I don't feel disabled) or about my mental heath issues (those are mine an not for public display).
Cal wants a personal statement as well as the statement of purpose. They want me to write about challenges I have overcome. The list they ofter suggests that I should write about being a women in the sciences, or having a learning disability, or my depression issues. And I really don't want to write about any of those things.
When I applied to Cambridge I wrote about my depression, the breakdown I had when I was 16. I felt I owed them a explanation, a reason I why I was 22 and not in college. Why I was such a fuckup but they should let me in anyways. I guess it helped because I got in. However I don't want to do that again.
I don't feel I owe that to grad school. I don't want them to take me because of my issues. I don't want to have to talk about personal stuff it hurts to dreg up to get into grad school. I don't want to tell them about how I was oppressed (I got off lightly in this regard, anyways) or how I'm disabled (I don't feel disabled) or about my mental heath issues (those are mine an not for public display).
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