TEM #004: Let’s get existential.

July 7, 2023

Hi! Thanks for being here. Hope you’ve had a fun week. 🧨

This week’s highlights:

• Your education affirmation

• 3 tools to amplify your personal statement

• Action steps for the next week

• Thoughts on Threads

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Education affirmation.

Your life is full of potential.

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On the Blog.

You’ve heard it before:

“Tell me about yourself.”

That common interview question takes on new life when you write a personal statement for graduate school.

After 10 years of reading thousands of applications, I know firsthand that the best essays and statements have one thing in common: strong self awareness.

To boost how you express it effectively, outsource the language you use to describe yourself. These 3 tools will help.

Personal Statements: 3 Tools to Describe Yourself Better ✏️

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Application Action Steps.

Choose your own adventure 🚁

1. Thinking about school in the future?

   • More likely than not, you’ll need to write a personal statement or statement of purpose (they’re similar but different, no need to think about it right now).

   • On your “Future Education Opportunities” document, start a section for Personal Statements.

   • Whenever you have an accomplishment, challenge you’ve worked through or other story that relates to your future career goals, take 5 minutes to add a few notes to this section. Your future self will thank you.
     

2. Actively applying later this year?

   • It’s time to start thinking about that personal statement. It can be rough, but I pinkie-promise you’ll make it through.

   • This week’s step is to check out the blog post above - take one of the assessments and save your results to your application folder. (You’ll come back to this when you start writing, let’s just take things one step at a time).

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Fun fact.

Zuckerberg’s taking on Twitter with the new Threads.

Even more amusing is this Google find:

“Threads is a 1984 British-Australian apocalyptic war drama television film.” (Wikipedia)

I’m interested to see if they have a similar ending.

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** Want expert advice on your graduate school application? **

If you’re a working professional going back to school and would like (free) guidance, I’m hosting 1:1 calls in July to learn more about your process, answer questions and offer insight.

Reply to this email and let me know if you’d like to learn more, I’d love to help 📩

And remember: You’ve got this!

Dr. Jena

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