The hell that is graduate school applications
I have "officially" begun my graduate school applications... Submitted my first one to MIT yesterday and throughout the course of this week will be finishing off the rest of them.
For those of you that don't know what this means, consider it the educational equivalent of a rectal exam. Those of you that are pre-med or pre-law or pre-anything can attest to this.
MIT in particular wanted to know every textbook that I had used for all of my classes, luckily the only textbook that I ever sold back was my chemistry book >:-) [read: chemistry = crap]. Cal Tech is even worse, in addition to this information they would also like to know the teacher that you took it with, and what subjects were covered in the class.
I can't even remember what I had for lunch and these guys want me to remember what chapter we got to in Calc I!
Even more painful than cleaning out the cob webs from the old cranial closet is writing a statement of purpose. This has to be the worst experience someone like me ever has to do. For those of you that don't know me, I don't like talking about myself, which is mainly why this blog is filled with rants of things I don't like about other stuff. But for the statement of purpose you must spend a page of single-spaced text blabbing on about why you are a good candidate for grad school.
Don't these guys know that I want to go to grad school so that I can get a better job and make more money!
But alas this one sentence would not help distinguish you from your opponent applicants and is thusly unacceptable. And far be it for the 4.5 years of academic work that you have done to get to this point of applying does not help enough!
For those of you that would like to read my statement of purpose send me an email and I will promptly reply with a photocopy of one of my fingers ;-).
Anyhow, consider yourself warned.
-J
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