Posted by alexandra_k on December 7, 2004, at 1:36:51
Well, I'll just pop this here so most people don't read it and so that even less will respond.
I thought humility was supposed to be a virtue?
Apparantly Kiwi's are bad at writing mission statements.
I am sick of it.
I had to work on a conference paper and then conference was exhausting
Now I need to work on my applications
and that has turned out to be an absolute b*tch.
I spent a day filling in the form (form, ha! small book more like) only to discover the next day that you can't save alterations to PDF's.
I feel sick.
How is it relevant to anything how many close relatives I know who have graduated from that institution?
How much time am I supposed to have for extra-curricular activities when I have devoted all that time to my work.
I refuse to buy into this b*llsh*t.
Though, I have to to a certain extent...The system is designed to root out people like me.
And I'm not that hard to trigger.
I do not cope with stress well.
I have a major inferiority complex (which passes off as humility).
I will not fit in at all.Then there is the average of 250 applications per year for 3 or 4 funded places. Not likely, I know. Not even likely to make it through the first cull. They end up with absolutely stacks of very good applicants. And all of them are fairly much comperable really. It is very rare that someone really stands out. So any reason, no matter how slight, is a reason to narrow down that pile.
We don't do mission statements / personal statements in NZ. I don't really know what is expected. But have been kindly donated a couple of successful ones so as to get the general gist.
To do them properly you need to get your heart into it. You need to figure out why you want to go there so bad, and then tell them. Figure out what people are up to over there, read there work. Show how what you are into is relevant. Tell them what you can offer them, a new slant on a topic they like.
I am afraid of getting my heart into it when my chances are so slim. I am afraid that if I get my heart into it then I will be devistated in the likely event that I don't get accepted. But if you are going to do this, it has to be done properly. So I have to research and write and hurry the hell up.
Oh, and then I have one month to write my thesis.
I know I can do it, but I will have to get my skates on.I am exhausted.
I need a rest.
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