https://personalstatementservices.com/SamplePersonalStatement.netVivitiCMS2019-09-27T01:19:00-07:00SamplePersonalStatement.nettag:personalstatementservices.com,2019-09-27:/entries/1987959Petroleum Geology, Engineering Masters, Canada2019-09-27T01:19:00-07:002019-09-27T01:37:39-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/497238/379;197;97faf3b8850eca36f0ffec9575735838cc0a735b.png" style="border:none; float:left">I have worked in the oil and gas industry for over 10 years as a Senior Geoscientist and I am confident that this will enable me to hit the ground running in your program and excel. My first choice for graduate studies is the Master of Science Program in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Integrated Petroleum Geoscience University of XXXX, in Edmonton, Canada. I keenly look forward to the thrill of academic community with like-minded thinkers from all over the world engaged in similar challenges, with similar ideals and goals in the area of Petroleum Geoscience.</p>
<p>I have just concluded a contract with XXXX, serving as a Geoscientist Advisor, working with a team of five geoscientists in Luanda, Angola. My foremost interest at this time and the area of investigative research in which I hope to distinguish myself as a graduate student and beyond is in the characterization, formation, and evaluation of unconventional reservoirs. I hold a Diploma in Applied Petroleum Geosciences from the Laser Petroleum Geoscience Center in Nigeria (2009) along with my Bachelor of Science in Geology from the University of Ado-Ekiti, also in Nigeria (2003).</p>
<p>I have extensive practical experience in some of the areas of the oil and gas industry that will be covered in the coursework of your program so I am looking forward to having valuable things to share with my colleagues and peers from all over the world. I received extensive training with Baker Hughes, in particular, in the area of Acoustics and NMR tools plus interpretation. I was working on shallow and deep offshore wells for companies including Exxon Mobil, Total, BP, Statoil, and Repsol. I especially look forward to sharing my wealth of knowledge in the area of acoustic and NMR tools and interpretation.</p>
<p>I grew up surrounded by mountains and rocks as a child and was very curious about their properties and origins. When I discovered that there was a whole science devoted to their study, I was delighted and it has been my central passion ever since. My natural curiosity, diligence and determination have taken me quite far already, having established a reasonably secure and well-paid future. Nevertheless, I want more, principally to acquire the high level skills and knowledge that will ultimately enable me to teach in my field and pass on the torch of cutting-edge theory and practice to new generations of students.</p>
<p>I have adored the study of rocks since childhood and for well over a decade I have made constant progress in every aspect of distinguishing between the kind of rocks on the surface of the earth that I used to play with as a child, and the sedimentary rock which holds over 40% of the world’s oil deposits. This curiosity was one of the primary factors that got me headed into a career in Petroleum Geology. My ambition to teach has developed slowly during ten years as a Senior Geoscientist; it crystallized, however, when I led a team of four on a project in Angola. Leading subordinates through a problem and helping them to identify possible solutions – always carefully weighing the advantages and disadvantages – provided me with a great sense of satisfaction. My team members have even told me at times that I should go into teaching. Now, I am very determined to move in that direction.</p>
<p>I have significant experience not only at overseeing but also training of junior staff. I have personally benefitted greatly from having highly effective teachers and have always noted the characteristics and techniques of the best of them and sought to emulate them when training others. I know that a good teacher is passionate about their subject. I have an inquisitive mind, always thinking and asking questions, generally related to how to solve problems encountered while interpreting geologic data.</p>
<p>I follow recent developments especially closely in the area of fracking. I am intrigued by how unconventional reservoirs are being produced at a good commercial rate. I have extensive experience in using Stoneley waves to characterize formation permeability and cross dipole measurements to determine the magnitude of azimuthal anisotropy and thus the stress regime, fracture density, and the fracture strike in the region surrounding the borehole in sedimentary reservoirs. I look forward to the possibilities of using permeability and anisotropy analysis in a time lapse manner on an unconventional reservoir: before and after hydraulic fracturing. In this way, I am expecting to reveal the positive and negative impact of fracturing with respect to in-situ permeability and fracture network.</p>
<p>My most sublime moments have been spent coaching and mentoring junior geoscientists more than any other aspect of my duties. I am confident that I am gifted with the ability to convey information to others. Earning the MSc. in Petroleum Geology will help me to realize my long term goals of staying engaged with the academy and at some point devoting myself to full-time teaching in my field.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to the Master of Science Program in Earth and Atmospheric Sciences at the Integrated Petroleum Geoscience University of XXXX.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-10-25:/entries/1744510PHD Analytical Chemistry, Bangladeshi2018-10-25T00:24:00-07:002018-10-25T00:29:53-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/448676/271;186;16dea97c4555f088c3d02cba08daf3c9040e80fe.png" style="float:left">I have especially enjoyed serving as a Teaching Assistant in the Chemistry Department at XXXX University while earning my Master’s Degree in Chemistry; and I keenly look forward now to returning to the academic world in order to earn my PHD, also in Chemistry. I could not be happier in my chosen field and I look forward to a long and prosperous lifetime giving my all to both Analytical and Organic Chemistry. I have also served as a laboratory assistant at Lamar, and was most thankful for the experience of monitoring lab chemicals and maintaining instruments in accordance with safety regulations.</p>
<p>The University of XXXX, at XXXX is my first choice among PHD Programs in Chemistry for a variety of reasons, personal as well as professional. I especially admire your state-of-the-art facilities for research with your highly modern instrumentation lab. While I admire profoundly and share an intense passion for many of the areas of special research interest of your faculty, generally speaking, I am especially looking forward to the privilege of studying under Dr. Franco Basile whose research in analytical chemistry dealing with environmental and biological sample analysis I particularly admire. I find myself drawn to the welcoming campus community of the University of Wyoming, particularly the way that it is set in such a picturesque mountain landscape.</p>
<p>I have closely observed chemical reactions since I was a child playing in my own little lab and I see life itself as similar to organic chemistry; as I see it, chemistry provides oxygen for our way of life. My elder brother encouraged me to study hard and pursue a career in science; thus, while still in grade school, I would find myself pondering such things as why the rubber-like substance of my eraser would remove pencil writings from the paper but not those that were made with ink. I earned my BSc in Chemistry from University of Dhaka in 2012 and now I will be finishing my MS Degree with a thesis this coming spring of 2017. I have most enjoyed my advanced courses in Chemistry - organic, inorganic analytical, physical - and instrumental analysis courses. I have also found time for volunteer work here in the USA as well as back home in my native Bangladesh where I served with Education USA, teaching at the American Center at the US Embassy in Dhaka.</p>
<p>I became especially intrigued even as an undergraduate student in the area of spectrochemical analysis and as a Master’s student I have completed a great deal of research involving LC/MS/MS TGA and XRD instrumentation; and published my first paper on TMS. Competing in our poster competitions here at XXXX University has always been a special honor and privilege since it has helped me to meet many like minded individuals and share notes on advancements in our field. I gave an oral PowerPoint presentation on my research and supplemental proceeding, published on TMS, called: “Thin films and coating for absorptive removal of antimicrobials, antibiotics and other pharmaceuticals” (2016). Another of my poster presentations dealt with my research concerning a “Experimental and quantum chemical study on the removal of emerging water pollutants Triclosan by clay particles”. Finally, I also did a presentation concerning STEM conference held at XXXX University.</p>
<p>I want to devote my lifetime to research in analytical chemistry - organic and physical. It is my sincere hope to make special contributions to the development of medicine at reduced costs, especially for people in my country, Bangladesh, for whom so many are unable to afford the life-saving medication that they need. Thus, while my field is analytical, I never lose sight of the applications for chemistry and its global potential to save lives and prolong health, especially in the Developing World and particularly among those people who are most poor, as is the case with my own people in Bangladesh.</p>
<p>I look forward to a permanent, ongoing engagement with the academic, international chemistry community and I look forward to exciting collaboration and discussion with my peers from all over the world in addition to your distinguished faculty at the University of XXXX. It would be an honor to continue to serve as a Teaching Assistant or assist with research, laboratory activities, etc; I would be an honor to give my all to the service of the faculty, department, and the University of XXXX.</p>
<p>After completing the PHD, I see myself in a multi-research firm where I can devote myself to cutting-edge research for decades to come. I hope to build a distinguished career in teaching as well as research always cultivating and seeking to inspire a deep sense of and appreciation for discovery, bringing forth new light that sheds light on mysteries and points forward in new directions in the quest to make the world a better place to live for all.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to the University of XXXX.</p>
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tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-10-08:/entries/1736642Master Business Analytics, Agricultural, Korean2018-10-08T13:07:00-07:002018-10-08T13:20:23-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/445418/300;168;a0c960ae20f7ad30d591b3379bff3b2a8f47884e.jpg" style="float:left; height:195px; width:348px">I write on behalf of my application for exceptional admission for spring 2017 to the Master of Science in Business Analytics Program at Oklahoma State University. I hope to be granted admission with exceptional status to your program since I am already taking one of the core courses this semester and I have already taken three classes that would qualify as electives, two in the field of statistics from the Department of Statistics as well as a Base SAS Programming class through the Marketing Department at XXU. A PHD candidate in Agricultural Economics at OSU, I will graduate this coming May of 2017. I am also currently working on a Graduate Certificate in Business Data Mining and have been certified as a Base Programmer for SAS 9 by SAS in 2016.</p>
<p>I was awarded a Distinguished Graduate Fellowship at XXXX University (2013-2014), I think, because I am a very hard worker with extremely high motivation. Since childhood I have dreamed of becoming a distinguished professor in Korea. Academic hierarchy in my country, however, is highly structured and rigid, especially in my chosen field of Agricultural Economics. This field, in particular, is dominated by older men who show little sign of inclusiveness to women in this area of study. The problem is complicated by the fact that Agricultural Economics is no longer taught at private universities, with only the national universities now offering this field of study. Thus, holding the Master’s Degree in Business Analytics will provide me with the special qualification that I need in order to be as competitive as possible in a system where the odds are stacked against me both as a woman and as a younger person.</p>
<p>I look forward to many decades to come of intense research in an academic setting since I hope to make my major contribution to society by analyzing data, creating value through analytics, and finding optimal and meaningful solutions to a variety of problems in a diverse range of industries related to Agricultural Economics, developing novel, analytical approaches to the fields of agribusiness and marketing. I also look forward to teaching new generations of Korean university students in the area of applied agricultural economics, especially Agribusiness and Marketing Analytics. Strengthening our educational system will help Korea to better compete internationally in the area of food production and marketing. I also look forward to working on research and outreach activities with the Government of Korea, designing policies to benefit agribusiness: consumers, producers, and marketers.</p>
<p>Due to rapid advances in computer software development and the ever-growing volume of structured and unstructured data available from both internal and external sources, the key challenge is to find and use the right tool for the software task, especially in the fields of agribusiness and marketing. With a strong aptitude for analytical thinking, I have acquired a thoroughgoing theoretical background in agricultural economics and statistics. I am familiar with computer applications using R, SAS, Stata, and Gams, and have constantly improved my quantitative skills, particularly with respect to econometrics and linear and nonlinear mathematical programming – as a result of my PHD program.</p>
<p>My 10 years of professional experience serving with the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) as a graduate research assistant have also helped me to sharpen my analytical abilities and will help me to hit the ground running and distinguish myself in your MS Program in Business Analytics at XXU. I firmly believe that the Master of Science in Business Analytics program at XXXX University will provide me with the optimal platform upon which to continue to grow intellectually, to become more sophisticated on a theoretical level and increasingly efficient at the design and execution of new statistical models that will allow us to develop novel and creative, data driven approaches to practical challenges. I thank you for considering my application to Business Analytics at XXU.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-09-21:/entries/1728094MA Mental Health Counseling, Kuwaiti2018-09-21T06:39:00-07:002018-09-21T06:46:51-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/442416/318;246;a52ab100fc57b9acd508f932262b29440d9e4c17.jpg" style="float:left">This application is made because of my close interest in health service provision and my wish to work, at a senior level, in the Ministry of Health in my own country. It is widely believed that a country as rich as Kuwait, which devotes massive resources to health services, cannot therefore suffer any major problems in health service provision. However this is not the case, there are problems some of which are serious and which I hope to help address by acquiring the skills, knowledge and research opportunities afforded by earning the MA Degree in Mental Health Counselling at XXXX University.</p>
<p>An example of failure in health service provision in my society relates to the issue of mental health which is a near taboo subject in Kuwait. The results of being judged to be mentally ill carry with it seriously damaging consequences socially, educationally and professionally. The problem begins early. Parents strongly resist a diagnosis of ADD, ADHD or Autism for fear of potentially life-long consequences for their child. Consequently such a child’s condition is likely to go untreated in a normal school environment lacking specialist educators and thus the child is most unlikely to achieve their potential. The problem is not, of course, limited to childhood conditions but includes the whole range of adult psychiatric and psychological conditions ranging from the most serious to mild depression.</p>
<p>Free mental health treatment is available in Kuwait. Provision and financing are not the problems. The problems are the societal disincentives to seeking such treatment and the attitude of those, including mental health service providers themselves, to those being treated. I am under no illusion that I can single-handedly reduce or eradicate prejudice but hope to be a part of the solution. After gaining experience within the Ministry of Health, I hope that I might be able to found and lead an NGO with the major goal of improving this situation.</p>
<p>I excelled academically at school and, as a consequence, I was awarded a full government scholarship for undergraduate and graduate study abroad and am currently studying Politics at Edinburgh University and am predicted to be awarded 2:1 degree. My choice of Politics arose from an interest with the ways in which governments establish their priorities, formulate policy and implement it and especially how these processes work, and might be improved for the general good, in my own country. I have focused my efforts on studying the sociological aspect of politics, social and public policy and social work. I have also been seeking to understand how the language that organisations employ affects users and the ways in which minorities are excluded from the benefits of implemented policies. I have also studied Research Analysis which I believe is highly relevant to this application.</p>
<p>I live in a country which can afford to provide all basic needs for its citizens. However this generous paternalism comes at a fairly high price which is that the government is in a position to control and manipulate the population and to ignore certain matters that, in other countries, would have come to the fore and been the subject of government concern and action. One of these matters is a rigid class and tribal hierarchy which limits opportunities for some and fails to provide all with the same opportunities to achieve their educational and professional potential. It is my hope to have some positive effect in this matter in the future. I am a member of the university Feminist Society and of the Black and Minority Ethnic Society. Living as part of a minority within the UK has provided many insights into the feelings and problems faced by the minority religious and tribal groups in my own society which I intend to apply in my future work.</p>
<p>I am only twenty-one and so my professional experience is necessarily limited. However, I have some experience of work and volunteer effort. I was a carer for my mother from the age of 16 which gave me early experience of the provision of healthcare services in Kuwait. I have worked as a Consultant Intern, analysing information for UN High Commission for Refugees. I have also interned at specialist marketing companies because of my study of Research Analysis and this experience has provided useful insights into the ways in which attitudes and perceptions can be formed and changed, which is highly relevant to my long term aims. I also worked as a volunteer for ChildReach International working to increase donations including giving presentations to potential donors.</p>
<p>I am a member of the University’s Debating Society. I enjoy researching subjects that might be totally new to me and then marshalling and presenting clear and persuasive arguments for my case. Debates are an excellent means of honing communication skills and of seeing the different ways in which a case can be effectively presented. The skills acquired will be directly applicable to participation in meetings and in making presentations in my future career</p>
<p>I am very aware that the wish to affect policy calls not only for technical knowledge but is directly related to the ability to create and maintain positive relationships with colleagues, policymakers and others. I have happily studied, worked and socialized with people of different ethnic and social backgrounds. I enjoy sharing information about my own culture and learning about others. In addition to my experience of studying in the UK, I have visited the United States in an educational exchange when in High School. I am regarded as an excellent team member. I work well with others and am as prepared to listen as to speak but am always ready to strongly but diplomatically defend my position.</p>
<p>To summarise: I am academically able and with a high degree of intellectual curiosity and analytical skill; I have a highly relevant academic and work background (although admittedly limited); I possess the personal characteristics of empathy, amiability, a readiness to co-operate to achieve common goals and diligence that I am convinced will enable me to excel within the program and in a career beyond. I look forward to sharing the fruits of my own experience and to benefitting from those of a prestigious faculty and my fellow students.</p>
<p>Thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-09-04:/entries/1719534PHD Composition and TESOL, Iraqi Translator2018-09-04T08:51:00-07:002018-09-04T08:59:45-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/440419/517;342;862148c2a7659974da0bca326e223a54c2f034ab.jpg" style="float:left">Earning the PHD Degree in Composition and TESOL at XXXX will provide me with the optimal, inclusive, interdisciplinary, and research-based understanding of first and second language acquisition, literacy, and education. I especially appreciate the way in which your program incorporates several distinct facets of language literacy into the curriculum: TESOL, rhetoric, and applied linguistics. Thus, I feel that I am a good fit with your program at IUP given my interests in language literacy and culture. The teacher-researcher aspect of your program is something else that I find most appealing as I look forward to exploring and contributing to the expansion of literacy and language education around the world. I see our program at UXX as having the right mix of emphasis on theory and practice.</p>
<p>I feel drawn to the colorful backgrounds and areas of specialization of your faculty at UXX, the teacher-scholar model that informs your entire curriculum, multilingual writing, researching language and culture internationally, TESOL pedagogy – IUP strikes me as an ideal location for the full immersion experience in research that I seek to undertake. I have always preferred the Eastern coast of the US and find myself most attracted to the relaxed pace of a small town like Indiana. I have visited once and love the calmness; Indiana is also relatively affordable. </p>
<p>Currently teaching English in Vietnam, I am a mature, experienced, and very hard-working student and teacher originally from Iraq, as well travelled as I am read, living and working extensively in the USA, most of Europe including the former Yugoslavia, South East Asia, and Africa. If accepted to your program I would most certainly be one of the oldest students at 58, contributing to the diversity of your program in several important ways, including my age.</p>
<p>I spent years working for NATO as a civilian translator, both inside and outside of Iraq; this served to further drive my profound interest in and passion for language, translation, and especially language education. Working for NATO was a thoroughly multicultural and multilingual experience that I most enjoyed. In addition to English and Arabic, I also speak conversational French and I am currently learning some of the basics of Vietnamese. Finally, I have spent a lifetime off and on working to resurrect a better understanding of my own original language, Babylonian, to the extent to which I have time and such a thing is possible. I am an artist with a special historical connection not only to caricature, but also acting and drama. I see this latter form of the arts as especially compatible with my central professional goal, becoming a world class English as a Foreign Language teacher and teacher of teachers. Someday I hope to return to my native Iraq, my home, once it is safe to do so. I also look forward to many years of teaching in the USA as well as abroad.</p>
<p>Humble, unpretentious, non-materialistic, I intend to work another 20+ plus as a teacher of prospective English teachers – with a focus on speaking abilities. My extensive travel around the world, Asia, Europe and the Middle East provides me with stories to share of English-language-learning in diverse cultures. I also look forward to contributing to research in the area of culture and language literacy and learning.</p>
<p>By the time I was an MA student in TESOL at XXXX, I had come to more fully appreciate the fact that the English teachers who taught English to me in Iraq lacked any specialized training or expertise in the process of language acquisition and teaching and unfortunately, this is still the case. Since the Iraqi Ministry of Education provides the curriculum, English teachers have no control over the materials they use and there is still little to no interactive teaching where students engage in speaking activities. I hope to earn the doctoral degree primarily so as to be in a position to make important contributions to the teaching of English in Iraq, making EFL instruction much more effective, productive, and beneficial. I want to contribute to change in methodologies and instructions used in teaching English in Iraqi schools - especially high schools and universities</p>
<p>Once it is finally achieved and Iraq is again stable, I want to contribute to helping peace to endure for new generations of Iraqis by helping to make English language instruction more accessible and effective, helping us to integrate within the global community with English as our planetary language. I hope to make major contributions to TESOL in Iraq on a variety of dimensions. I would like to teach Linguistics and TESOL at the University of Babylon. Using cutting-edge, computer and internet-related resources, I want to harness the power of English for peace building and the promotion of harmony among different peoples, democracy, justice, liberty, equality and freedom.</p>
<p>Babel (Babylon), where I was born, is a city in the Euphrates River Valley in present day Iraq. I have enjoyed many wonderful laughs around the world over the years when I tell people that I am a language teacher from Babel. Nevertheless, the realities on the ground are quite sad since Iraq has been the scene of war which has been destroying rather than nurturing life for some time now. I see language learning as something central to the process of building peace, particularly appropriate and in fact urgent for the entire Middle East – much of it engulfed in war.</p>
<p>Being accepted to the PHD Program in Composition and TESOL at XXXX will enable me to make my fullest contribution to our profession, spending a couple more decades working to improve speaking ability and communication skills. I am presently very much engaged here in Vietnam with epic struggles for more effective ways to improve pronunciation with my EFL students and I find it extremely enjoyable.</p>
<p>I thank you for consideration of my application to XXXX.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-04-18:/entries/1666562PHD Linguistics, TESOL, Learning Tech, Iraqi2018-04-18T09:49:00-07:002018-04-18T09:54:42-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/421877/668;142;c94974f6de68c59525119d63ba02fd58af0b1719.jpg" style="float:left">Bilingual Education, TESOL, Learning Technologies, and English Education have stood at the center of my world for many years. I hope to be accepted to your PHD Program in Linguistics at XXXX University so as to continue to make progress towards my maximum contribution in language education. Dr. XXXX, in particular, would be an excellent candidate for my advisor since she works in the area of Bilingual Education and TESOL. Currently teaching English in Vietnam, I am a mature, experienced, and very hard-working student and teacher originally from Iraq; as well travelled as I am read, I have lived extensively in the USA, most of Europe including the former Yugoslavia, South East Asia, and Africa. I earned my MA Degree in TESOL from XXXX University in 2014.</p>
<p>I spent several years working for NATO as a civilian translator, both inside and outside of my native Iraq; and this served to further drive my profound interest in and passion for language, translation, and especially language education. In addition to English and Arabic, I also speak conversational French and I am currently learning some of the basics of Vietnamese in Vietnam. Finally, I have spent a lifetime off and on working to resurrect a better understanding of my own original language, Babylonian, to the extent to which I have time and it is possible to do so. I am an artist with a special historical connection not only to ancient languages of the Middle East but also caricature and acting. I see drama as especially compatible with my central professional goal, becoming a world class English as a Foreign Language teacher and teacher of EFL teachers. Someday, I hope to return to my native Iraq, my home, once it is safe to do so. My central long-term dream is to develop curriculums for EFL instruction in Arab countries.</p>
<p>I worked for both NATO and the U.S Marine Corps translating back and forth between Arabic and English. I like to think that my language skills were a crucial part of the democracy building process in Iraq both during and after Operation Iraqi Freedom. The hardest part of the job was working in the extremely dangerous post war territories. At the same time, this experience was most enjoyable since I was able to help the people communicate with the military and, thus, with the international community. Working for NATO was an experience like no other. The environment was multicultural and diverse where individuals - military and civilian - brought their own cultural perspectives to bear on every conversation. I thrived on the challenge.</p>
<p>Having first studied communications technology as a younger man, by the time that I had finished my undergraduate studies in Linguistics and began my Masters Program in TESOL, I had become well aware of the fact that my earlier, advanced training in technical studies was most beneficial for my career as an English teacher insofar as it helps me to prepare for teaching technical English and particularly computer literacy. I am most enthused, in fact, by the way that computer English language learning stands at the forefront of our field (CALL). Humble, unpretentious, non-materialistic, I intend to work another 20+ plus as a teacher of Interpretation, Translation, and most of all, teaching English to English teachers – with a focus on speaking abilities. If accepted to your PHD Program in Linguistics at XXXX University, I hope to devote myself to the development of creative TESOL curriculums that take full advantage of computer-based technology to enhance language learning. My extensive travel around the world, Asia, Africa, Europe and the Middle East provides me with stories to share of English-language-learning in diverse cultures. I also look forward to contributing to research in the area of culture and language learning.</p>
<p>I thank you for consideration of my application to XXXX University.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-03-30:/entries/1662378Master’s PA, Physician Assistant Studies, Sri Lanka2018-03-30T05:21:00-07:002018-03-30T05:29:41-07:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/419568/400;400;330982e58905d3cc18040d26ac97ad6106dfc4d5.jpg" style="float:left; height:362px; width:362px">From January of 2002 through the end of October of 2013, I served most faithfully and diligently as a doctor in my native Sri Lanka, immigrating permanently to Canada in 2014. Since then I have been building new career directions and preparing myself for a return to the workforce as a health care professional. I have been studying full time in a variety of areas that will help me to excel as a graduate student here in Canada, retraining for a new professional role, including: Intensive Medical English, First Aid & CPR-HCP, and Emergency Medical Responder.</p>
<p>Looking closely at my options, I am now fully convinced that I am the best fit as a non-traditional graduate student in the University of XXXX’s Physician Assistant Studies Program. Even though, I have also passed the Evaluating Examination for the Medical Council of Canada, I do not seek to become a leader in medicine, especially since I am a devoted family man. Rather, I seek to give my all to the practice of medicine in Canada in a support role; first, by distinguishing myself as a student in your Master’s Program in Physician Assistant Studies at the University of XXXX.</p>
<p>I have now served as a highly enthusiastic and diligent volunteer for almost one year and plan to continue volunteering my time with the Befriender Program, a research program conducted by the University of XXXX Department of Psychiatry that connects volunteers with autistic clients and studies the results. We maintain a log of the kinds of activities that are selected according to the interest of both the volunteer and the client: a picnic one day, movie the next, sports activities, etc. At the end of the study, they ask us to complete a feedback questionnaire about our experience.</p>
<p>I especially enjoy the department conferences that we have each month where we discuss creative strategies to help us meet our goals and to address any issues that we are facing at the time. My participation in the Befrienders Program has helped to facilitate my bonding with the community, making many new friends, particularly the family members of our clients, meeting people from other organizations with related interests, all the while learning a great deal about how things work in Canada, generally speaking.</p>
<p>Born and raised in the countryside of Sri Lanka, my father a farmer and my mother a house wife, life was hard, full of chores and responsibilities especially for me since I was the oldest. This helped me to become disciplined and organized, however, and someone who is especially devoted to my own children, my daughter who is 10 and my sons, 9 and 5. As my career develops and I gain more experience here in Canada following completion of your distinguished PA Program at XXXX, I look forward to serving with medical missionary teams to disaster areas in the Developing World, perhaps returning at some point to Sri Lanka on a professional capacity.</p>
<p>We lived through 30 years of war in Sri Lanka and we all suffered a great deal as a result. A terrible Tsunami also hit my homeland on the 26th of December 2004 and thousands of people died with hundreds of thousands more displaced. That was perhaps the most memorable epoch of my life so far since at that time I was working as the Regional Malaria Officer for the Western Province of Sri Lanka and I played an important administrative role in helping tsunami victims, working alongside a variety of local and international organizations. Later, when there was a terrible flood in Sri Lanka and I was already in Canada and could not return, I felt a terrible tug at my heart when I watched the images of the victims on the television.</p>
<p>In addition to completing all of the prerequisites for the PA program at XXXX, I also have 8 years of experience practicing Medicine – half of that time in Forensic Medicine - and more than ten years of active participation and experience in preventive and curative health care, actively participating to help out with community social projects. I have advanced administrative skills and always face up to the challenge, excelling in stressful conditions.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2018-02-06:/entries/1651746MA Human Rights and Conflict Management2018-02-06T07:42:00-08:002018-02-06T07:50:18-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/408249/299;168;84c8426d80fe1a13e5a2bec1bbeb5800e11f97fc.png" style="float:left">The MA Programme in Human Rights and Conflict Management at XXXX is my choice for graduate school because of the excellence of your faculty and the world renowned character of your program, offering the precise combination of material - from an interdisciplinary perspective - that I want to learn. I also very much appreciate your close cooperation with international organizations and the fact that students have the opportunity to complete an internship with a peacekeeping mission to practice their skills in a real-world environment.</p>
<p>My motivation to pursue this Master programme grows out of my seven-year experience of designing and managing projects geared towards the protection and strengthening the observance of human rights and freedoms in Afghanistan as well as in post conflict environments in Central Asia. I am keen to enhance my academic background and practical-operational skills in these areas to play more influential roles, change lives for the better and support the development of peaceful and democratic societies.</p>
<p>In 2013, I served in Afghanistan with the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), an international development organisation working in over 30 countries; this would become a watershed experience in my career, enabling me to better appreciate the transformative power that an effective development organization can have on the lives of local populations - when development includes a human-rights approach and solutions are implemented in culturally acceptable ways. This was particularly true about AKDN’s work seeking to improve access to education and health for girls and women in Afghanistan.</p>
<p>Upon returning to Kyrgyzstan, I decided to deepen my involvement in human rights. For the past three years, I have been serving as National Officer on Media and Information Policy for the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the largest security organization in Europe, working out of their Centre in Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan. I have been advocating for media freedoms, freedom of expression and journalists’ safety and reporting on relevant cases to the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media. The recognize human rights that form the bedrock of modern democracies are viewed by the OSCE as an indispensable part of security. This idea has been reflected in all programmes implemented by the Centre in Kyrgyzstan which has experienced two revolutions and an interethnic conflict since gaining independence in 1991. The need to balance security and human rights has become even more relevant over the course of the past few years, as we have seen a clear shift towards more security-driven regulation affecting our liberties, especially our freedom of speech.</p>
<p>I believe that effective peace-building initiatives depend on respect for human rights, thereby minimizing the risk of further exacerbation of conflicts. I look forward to vastly improving my knowledge of best practices of human rights protection and promotion in international contexts to accurately analyse situations on the ground in their social, cultural, and historical contexts. My ultimate goal is to evolve into a human rights advocate with increasing levels of international experience and expertise, hopefully working for a UN institution in a conflict or post-conflict environments such as Syria, Afghanistan, or Sudan. In time, I also hope to play increasingly important roles in policy development.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2017-08-04:/entries/1573638HRM, Human Resource Management, Saudi2017-08-04T07:25:00-07:002019-01-28T07:05:57-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/378823/515;229;9a4bd78b3a45eb2b8930a9d5047b1c2a400c7686.jpg" style="float:left">Once I understood the vital importance of Human Resource Management in enabling organizations to achieve their goals, to minimize costs and to maximise the effectiveness of employees I was immediately drawn to the specialty. In my years of work and studies to date, I have never regretted my choice. Having acquired significant experience and knowledge through my work and studies, I now seek to acquire the advanced skills and knowledge to enable me become an expert practitioner, to assist in achieving further advances in the subject and to become a leader in the field, to teach and mentor the next generation of HRM specialists and to share my own passion for the specialty with them and others within the organizations in which I shall serve.</p>
<p>It is clear that the successful HR Manager possesses particular personal characteristics that are perhaps quite unusual but I am confident that I possess these and have made positive and continuous efforts to develop them in my career to date. I believe that the basic requirement is a liking for people and for interacting with them and the ability to gain their trust and confidence. I get on well with others and find great satisfaction in helping them to achieve their professional potential and to help find solutions to their problems. I have highly developed listening skills and have developed the skill of interpreting non-verbal signals that might indicate reluctance, for whatever reason, to be open about the actual matter of concern.</p>
<p>I enjoy designing and executing presentations whether for training or management information purposes and am considered to be very effective in this area of work which I greatly enjoy.</p>
<p>I know that an effective HR manager has an excellent understanding of the financial, accounting, marketing and operational functions of their organization and how they relate to each other. I ensure that I keep in close touch with managers in all these specialities and that I am aware of their current challenges and successes whether directly related to HR matters or not and that they are similarly informed about my own situation. I have also sought to benefit from the insights of HR colleagues in a variety of industries and organizations. I have found that some things that appear industry-specific at first sight turns out to have wider applications with appropriate modifications. I seek to constantly update my knowledge and to be aware of innovations in the specialty through the reading of professional journals and the works of experts in the field.</p>
<p>I also recognize the importance of taking an interest in the insights available from those serving in the more humble capacities in the organization and to listen to their concerns and to encourage them to seek advancement academically and in their career. I also take time out to ‘pass the time of day’ with colleagues at all levels and sometimes these casual encounters yield useful information as well as providing reassurance that the organization is interested in them and their views and values their various roles.</p>
<p>I am aware of the particular need for cultural awareness and sensitivity in HR management. I have happily studied, worked and socialized with people of many different cultural and social backgrounds and look forward to extending these experiences in the program and in my work in the future. I am fairly well travelled having visited several European countries and have travelled within the US. I have always used these travels as an opportunity to learn something about the local communities and industries. I possess a well-developed sense of humor which has always been a useful asset especially in defusing potentially confrontational situations.</p>
<p>My particular interest is in business leadership and strategy and I hope to assist in research in this area especially from an enterprise perspective focusing on processes and activities applied in the formulation of business objectives and how strategy is aligned to human capital management.</p>
<p>I am attracted to the program because of the high prestige of the faculty, the range of the curriculum and the success of those who have graduated. I shall seek to add to the ‘lustre’ of the program for my own benefit and that of my fellow students, the faculty and my future employers.</p>
<p>I believe that my academic success in my bachelor degree in HR Management, my substantial professional experience and, most importantly, my passion for the specialty and for acquiring expert level skills and knowledge will enable me to excel rather than merely succeed in the program. I also believe that I am equipped to ‘add value’ by bringing useful and interesting insights from my professional experience. I can assure the reader that I shall participate in the program with great enthusiasm and diligence.</p>
<p>Thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2017-08-04:/entries/1573366MS Financial Engineering, Instruments, Chinese2017-08-04T01:34:00-07:002019-01-28T07:09:59-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/378822/301;167;36dc371b468412711bd7d2c597155136a1ae20bf.jpg" style="float:left">My introduction to Financial Engineering came in my junior year in college. I was immediately fascinated by the subject and recognized its basic importance in achieving everyone’s financial well-being. I undertook some private research and decided then that this was the specialty that I would like to pursue.</p>
<p>As I researched the subject, I came to appreciate the vital importance of this area of study to the well-being of the entire financial and banking system, especially in the light of the events leading up to the banking crisis of 2008 when poorly (and possibly, cynically) designed financial products caused a near collapse in world’s financial institutions. I have taken a close interest in the way that financial products are designed and marketed since my initial introduction to the subject and have undertaken much private study and research into the subject to equip myself for this application. I also have some directly relevant, though admittedly limited, work experience gained during an internship spent at Citi Bank working in derivatives. I seek entry to the program in the Financial Markets and Corporate Finance track.</p>
<p>I am aware that, as financial instruments become ever more sophisticated, an increasing need arises for enthusiastic and knowledgeable experts who have the capability of, not only understanding the complex modelling techniques required to accurately gauge the risks involved in, and to design robust products, but also the ability to explain them to non-specialist colleagues, clients and regulators. </p>
<p>The development of sophisticated financial instruments is certainly not as highly evolved in my home country of China as it is in the US and Europe. It is my intention to apply the skills and knowledge that I shall acquire on the program in the financial markets in my home country. I also hope to train others to assist in this vital area for the financial development and well-being of the country and others in Asia. I believe that the development of expertise in this specialty is extremely important to China especially in view of recent events and resulting scrutiny of Chinese financial markets and the importance of those markets in the world’s economy.</p>
<p>My undergraduate studies, in Actuarial Mathematics, have provided an excellent basis for the program especially as it relates to the measurement of risk. I have studied financial theory, the tools of mathematics. I have also mastered computer programming in C++, Python, R Studio, VBA, Excel and Stat., all of which are directly applicable to the program. I am confident that I have the academic potential to acquire the required technical skills and the natural characteristics that will enable me not only to succeed, but to excel in the program and in a career in this specialty.</p>
<p>I have experience as a tutor in mathematics gained during my undergraduate career which also involved the organization of various events for the benefit of students. I understand the importance of being amiable and approachable yet confident in getting the best from people. The work also honed my planning skills and gave me experience of applying personal initiative in a variety of situations.</p>
<p>I look forward to the opportunity of assisting in useful research in the field and would be especially interested in research related to Financial Engineering. I have happily studied, worked and socialized with people from many social and cultural origins. I have lived in China, Singapore, which is a very cosmopolitan country, and also in the US. I enjoy sharing knowledge of my own culture and learning about others. I speak Mandarin and English and am currently learning Japanese.</p>
<p>I am attracted to the program because of the prestigious faculty, the comprehensive range of the curriculum and the success of its graduates. I seek a challenging but supportive academic environment and am confident that I shall enjoy this within the program. I also seek to study in a large financial centre in order to maximize the opportunities for internships relevant to my future career.</p>
<p>I promise to participate enthusiastically and diligently if selected and to seek to excel within it. I believe that my academic background and interests provide an extremely ‘good fit’ and that I shall be able to bring useful insights for the benefit of others and I look forward to receiving the benefit of my colleague students’ academic and work experiences.</p>
<p>Thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2017-07-28:/entries/1569054MIS Masters Information, Dubai, Indian2017-07-28T15:05:00-07:002019-01-28T07:34:40-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/377553/446;256;12ecacb606db1603183c3da42490a0e12b519233.jpg" style="float:left">A student from India, I hope to be accepted to your competitive Masters Program in MIS at XXXXUniversity on the basis of my creative ideas; and the fact that I am now completing an internship of almost one year in Dubai, UAE. Now acquiring a great deal of cutting-edge knowledge and recent experience, I look forward to sharing some of my experiences working with a state-of-the-art company in one of the most dynamic of all global theaters of digital advancement. I also hope to be remembered by my teachers and fellow students in the MIS Program at Northwestern as the Indian student who was full of ideas and passion for harnessing the enormous power of the Indian work force in the area of MIS, particularly in the area of healthcare informatics. Thus, I very much look forward to learning from the faculty at XXXX, especially Professors XXXX and XXXX.</p>
<p>Until May of 2016 I will be completing my internship with XXXX LLC Dubai, fulfilling a variety of roles and duties in the area of Industrial Customer Services in support of Digital Factory and Process Drives DF & PD, answering calls and email of international clients, managing and editing data in the company’s CRM tool. I am responsible for migration of the CRM data to an online service portal as well as maintaining Siemens Global Service platform (GSP) and Corporate Master Data (CMD) used by end customers throughout the Gulf.</p>
<p>I am keen about learning everything that I can in your program about Central Budget Management Systems (CBMS), especially insofar as it is relevant and useful for health care informatics. Nothing excites me more than reading about how MIS at XXXX designed a healthcare app for the local children's hospital. Northeastern is not just my first choice because of its high ranking; I especially admire the ongoing research at your university and the interdisciplinary flavor of your research in diverse areas—especially manufacturing. Your program is ideal for a student like me with an extensive and diverse background in technology. I appreciate the opportunities that exist in MA to contribute to research and the partnerships that exist between XXXX and cutting-edge companies like Samsung who support your faculty’s efforts in the area of pattern recognition to cite just one example.</p>
<p>I have long been conscious of the fact that I come from a country that is projected to soon have the largest population in the world, surpassing that of China by mid-century. I have grown up in an age of enormous progress that is a direct result of technological advancement. As a child, I watched with eager enthusiasm how the cell phone transformed my native Indian society for the better. Healthcare informatics, service delivery, integrated modeling, my long term dreams and visions involve putting more and more of the many hundreds of thousands of highly qualified Indians to work in MIS, making our world ever more connected, especially in terms of health care informatics. The rest of the world needs India to help manage its health care information, because no one does it better, and we can do it for much less. At least that is my motto.</p>
<p>I am very much a cosmopolitan Indian man. While I was born in India, I’ve never been in one place for very long, I grew up mostly in Qatar, Singapore and Dubai and then back in India for high school and college. As I see it, much of my nation is plagued not so much by corruption—while we certainly have our share—but by sheer negligence. India already has the world’s largest population of skilled laborers and produces nearly half a million engineers per year. We have the world’s highest concentration of educated youth compared to any other nation. Yet only a small percentage of them are able to find work in our global economy. This is why I want my colleagues to remember me as the guy who came early and stayed late, because of the great promise of MIS for my people and the excitement that it generates. I want to always be the go-to guy if anyone has a MIS-related problem, beginning as a network engineer. I look forward to a long and prosperous career helping industries to make better decisions and improve their network security as a whole. After gaining sufficient knowledge and industrial experience, I hope to one-day return to my home country and help the nation by starting my own consultancy and providing specialized consulting to local clients to help advance their market share and boost our economy.</p>
<p>MIS is revolutionizing my country and I want very much to locate myself at the center of this action. Our network of railways is the largest in the world, the IRCTC, with an online portal that is now processing more data per second than any web other portal in the world. Millions of new apps and networks are needed to connect Indians and push the country forward. We hope to be a developed nation by 2020.</p>
<p>I want very much to be an integral part of this picture now taking shape and I see XXXX as the ultimate springboard to launch me on my quest. I look forward to contributing to research on Cloud Business Process Management Systems, enabling micro market companies and startups. I want to achieve expert status in CRMs (Customer Relationship Modules) since this is the backbone of all business transactions and services, particularly after the sale. Each day, I more fully appreciate the value and utility of maintaining this information on a cloud server, reducing a company’s downtime, lessening the load on servers and computer systems, all of which is good for business since it reduces the cost of service and maintenance and easy to use interfaces are so fast that users can create social media portals in one day.</p>
<p>I find these developments to be enormously exciting and I thank you for considering my application to your competitive program.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2017-07-22:/entries/1563769MISDI Mgmt of IS and Digital Innovation, Chinese2017-07-22T12:23:00-07:002019-01-28T07:46:55-08:00<p align="left"><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/376481/500;333;29198bc14b358a8a6239bab3e2883f5e3c2dc979.jpg" style="float:left; height:292px; width:438px">I am fully aware of the extremely competitive nature of your distinguished MSc Management of Information Systems and Digital Innovation (MISDI) Program at the University of XX (XXU). Nevertheless, I have hope to I believe not to be unfounded, primarily as a result of my academic preparation in the USA. I also hope to be accepted on the basis of my creative ideas for Education in the area of Digital Innovation in my native China. I am also a good fit for your program because of my devotion to teaching and digital education. I have already become quite familiar with Western teaching approaches as a result of earning my undergraduate degree at XXXX University. Some of my best work so far has been in the area of Chinese culture and literature through Western eyes. My professor in this area is one of the professors who is writing me a letter of recommendation.</p>
<p align="left">China is generally regarded as being less developed, less competitive in MIS than in other areas. This suggests that there are huge opportunities for future development of which I hope to take full advantage. If accepted into your distinguished program at the LSE, I will give my studies 100% and graduate with much sharper vision and a diverse tool kit that will enable me to find my ideal job in a consulting firm and eventually move into an executive position. The education that I hope to receive at XXU is unmatched, worldwide, in terms of what I most aspire to: becoming a world citizen with a humanitarian touch that knows no frontiers, harnessing science to make the world a better place for all of us to live, being a humanitarian business man to the extent to which it is possible to do so. For this I seek the finest education in the world at XXU.</p>
<p align="left">I want very much to devote my professional life to helping small businesses and non-profits to grow in China as a result of enhanced MIS. Small businesses represent over 95% of the total and already contribute to more than 50% of the GDP; but I want to see that second number increase as a result of continued, rapid, and most of all the ‘sustainable’ growth of our burgeoning middle class. I am worried about economic stagnation in China and the devastating consequences that it could have for the very survival of so many, in addition to threatening our progress in the area of human rights. With growing domestic and international competition some of our miraculous economic motors have begun to sputter; thus, increasingly, many small businesses owners are beginning to realize the importance of MIS and Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). Resource constraints combined with unsophisticated management structures have put millions of Chinese business people with their backs up against the wall. In most cases, ERP is the only way forward. It is do or die and I feel privileged to prepare myself for a leadership role in this area since it holds such enormous potential.</p>
<p align="left">Many businesses in China face severe problems when choosing to adopt ERP. According to one survey, only 30% of Chinese small businesses have successfully integrated an ERP system.</p>
<p align="left">My father’s businesses, gas stations, are a good example; he started the company in 1996 and has been serving his customers night and day now for almost 20 years. Although he offered promotions such as free car wash services for the purchase of more than 30 liters of gas, the recordings of such transaction were still paper-based. It has always been a problem to collect customer information, not to mention analyzing data in order to generate future growth. My dad didn't even realize this was a problem until I introduced him to the concept of ERP and data management. These days millions of small business owners like my father are being forced to make what is for most of them very difficult changes, surrendering manual control of outmoded forms of business management, entering new worlds computer-based business development in order to stay competitive, collecting, analyzing, and putting data to work.</p>
<p align="left">Nothing excites me more than helping a small noodle vendor to manage his inventory and supply of ingredients through a mobile app. I am determined to apply my knowledge to help these small businesses to grow and thrive. Most broadly speaking, and this speaks to why I have my heart set on XXU as my first choice, I want to acquire the most rigorous education possible concerning the specific challenges faced by and in second and third world countries in the development of the information systems that they need in order to make progress and I want to understand these challenges from an interdisciplinary perspective. For this reason it would be a special honor for me to study under Professor XXXX because of my profound admiration for her research concerning IT and social/organizational change in the Developing World.</p>
<p align="left">While I look forward to spending what will probably be decades serving as an international corporate executive, setting up my own IT service company has long been my special dream.</p>
<p align="left">I chose to major in Information System and Technology Management for my undergraduate studies because of the way that it unified my three principal interests and strengths—statistical science, management science and computer science. I initially faltered in my freshman year from a dose of culture shock, but I soon recovered and my initially low grades rapidly improved enabling me to finish with an overall GPA of 3.53 and a core-course GPA of 3.7, making the Dean’s List for two semesters. I am especially strong in statistics and have learned to use statistical software such as R and SPSS to generate statistical analysis reports and I am learning a great deal at the moment in a graduate level class “Web and Social Analytics,” analyzing real time data and providing optimizing solutions for companies from Harvard Business Cases by using Excel PivotTables and R. I have also taken a programming course and mastered the use of Python, building an application that allows users to build their portfolios based on real-time stock market performance. I am ready to hit the ground running in database management and applications.</p>
<p align="left">I visited XXU during the Spring break of 2013 and fell in love with the school and the city of London. The diligence of the students impressed me, especially when I saw some of them asleep on the library floor. I live for case studies and discussion based approaches to learning. I have learned to work with people from many diverse backgrounds and thrive on teamwork. In my Systems Analysis and Design class, for example, I have worked together with students from the Middle East and Europe as well as America to develop an online system to trade hyper cars; we completed a 25-page proposal that included the development process and system implementation strategy. And this is just one of example from 12 teamwork-based classes in which I have excelled so far and had an opportunity to develop my leadership skills as a group leader.</p>
<p align="left">Finally, I very much appreciate the XXU’s extensive contacts with international business and governmental organizations. The city of London itself is a great resource for studying the intersection of human organization and digital innovation.</p>
<p align="left">I thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2016-12-06:/entries/1355620Masters TESOL, Applicant from Pakistan2016-12-06T01:28:00-08:002019-01-28T07:55:23-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/197059/225;225;3aa84ace459252f30a2538275a6b93020eafba4d.jpg" style="float:left">Now that I am close to finishing up my double major in Business and Accounting, I want very much to pursue a Masters in TESOL. Having learned ESL as a child, I find a great deal of personal satisfaction helping others to reach their fullest potential in English and I have a great passion for TESOL because I can personally relate to my students and the difficulties that they face, having once been in their shoes myself.</p>
<p>Born in Pakistan and immigrating with my family to the USA at the age of (X) provided me with opportunities that I would not have had in Pakistan and I am thankful. My father sacrificed his own career, coming to America to drive a cab so that his son could have a better chance at life. My mother was a teacher in Pakistan and both of my parents instilled in me from early on a great appreciation for learning. Coming to the United States at X years old and not knowing a word in English, I was nevertheless an ambitious child who loved to learn. Even my mother the teacher did not attend college in Pakistan, and so I became the first one in my family to do so, our family’s realization of the American dream. My choice to become a TESOL professional is ultimately grounded in my experience during my first day at school in America, with my ESL teacher helping me to say “My name is” with correct pronunciation. Within weeks, not months, I was standing up in front of the entire class and speaking in full sentences because she gave me the courage to do so. This teacher is my most fundamental of many great inspirations along the way and I will always seek to carry her warmth and enthusiasm with me as an ESL teacher for many decades to come.</p>
<p>I date my career in ESL from my first teaching experience during my sophomore year in college, teaching my younger cousins recently arrived from Pakistan. This was my first full immersion experience as a teacher, all that summer, and they were ready for school when September came. I would fall asleep at night dreaming up new learning activities. I used action games like Simon says, word games and flashcard drills: listening, speaking, reading and writing, the LSRW method. All that summer, I was transported back in time to when I learned English after my arrival, at about their age. Thus, I was so fully aware of how much their future depended on my efforts as a teacher; and this drove me forward to excel. That same year, a good friend of mine asked if I might be interested in tutoring children in an after school program and I readily accepted. I especially enjoyed the great diversity of this classroom, helping students between the ages of 4-10 with their homework. My students were struggling in reading and writing as well as math and science so I found the post most challenging but I persevered. This first classroom experience helped me to better appreciate the great uniqueness of each child and his or her learning challenges and strengths. I addressed these challenges and played to these strengths by developing interactive activities, working closely with them one-on-one.</p>
<p>For the past year-and-a-half I have been volunteering at another after school ESL Program for children aged 7-12, preparing lessons and working one-on-one with the children tutoring their pronunciation, doing a lot of listening exercises. I often tell my students about the times when I was about their age and had the same difficulties in speaking English. By building rapport and relating my childhood with theirs, I have been able to give them the confidence they need to not feel embarrassed when they make mistakes. I love the smiles on their faces when they write out or speak a whole sentence correctly.</p>
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<p>After I complete my masters in TESOL at XXXX University, I plan to travel and teach, see the world, and at some point return to Pakistan to help with our advancement in ESL instruction in my country of origin, which needs an enormous amount of support in the area of language instruction.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to XXXX University. </p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2016-12-06:/entries/1355613Chiropractics, Philosopher, Pharmacy Supervisor2016-12-06T01:17:00-08:002019-01-28T07:58:46-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/195857/330;153;241f2ffe10906469f1651fdfd873ba673b2d3065.jpg" style="float:left">Perhaps the fact that I am earning my undergraduate degree in Philosophy yet work for Kaiser Permanente as a Pharmacy Supervisor speaks to a rebellious, subversive, or non-traditional side of my character that is manifest in my distaste for traditional medicine. My choice of Chiropractics as a career, on the other hand, speaks to my enormous respect and profound passion for fitness as produced by optimal nutrition and exercise. For me, Chiropractics is more about attaining optimal health than anything else; something that will never be obtained through the care of a medical doctor and/or ‘traditional’, pharmaceutical medicine alone. For me this is also a family issue, since my parents and grandparents practiced homeopathic medicine and made a believer out of me whilst growing up.</p>
<p>The human body has always been something spectacular and astonishing to me. I was always amazed on how the human body works in different ways. In the process of pursuing my degree in college, I got the opportunity to work with actual cadavers in my anatomy and physiology labs. From taking those courses, I became even more flabbergast with the human body and increase my understanding how important ones body really is. Also, I came to find out that my goal in life is to promote good health through exercise, nutrition, fitness, and to help people stay away from traditional medicine as much as possible. I have also seen my parents and grandparents practiced homeopathic medicine. Seeing them make miracles that are unimaginable happened had given me a reason to why I am choosing the profession of Chiropractic.</p>
<p>At this moment I am working full time as a Pharmacy Supervisor at Kaiser Permanente. I am a philosophy major, minor in sports medicine. Throughout my years of studies and experiences, I have gained a lot of knowledge about how the human body works, especially how it responds to physical exertion. Every day I see patients come in for their high blood pressure medication, high cholesterol medication, insulin medication, and diabetic medication, and I want to make a huge impact in promoting exercise, fitness, and nutrition. Seeing these patients made me realize that the world needs people like me to help them get back on track with their health conditions, and to help find a way to a better healthier lifestyle. I am astonished by the advances in great fields like Chiropractor that have professions available to help those who have been in bad accidents, and/ or severe injuries to be treated and healed. My interest in becoming a Chiropractor was finalized and confirmed through my experiences as an athlete, promoting good health to families and friends, and through my healthcare profession at work.</p>
<p>As a Pharmacy Manager at Kaiser Permanente, I have learned many skills to overcome many obstacles. I have learn to communicate effectively with other managers and staffs, I developed strong leadership skills, budgeting incredibly large money, creating action plans for projects, working under pressure and meeting goals, and most importantly servicing and providing great quality customer service skills for my patients that comes through my pharmacy. I am passionate about good healthy living, and I spend a lot of time working out and bringing good nutrition into my life. Through good nutrition, working out, and a lot of trial and error I have learned that consistency is the key to everything. The human body can change over such a short period of time and one needs to stay consistent on a regular basis to maintain ones quality of health. </p>
<p>Overall I am very confident and believe that I am a hard-working person with great sets of skill to motivate, inspire, and to study the human science behind Chiropractic. I am very goal driven and very passionate about everything I do. I feel that, with my skills, I can succeed to become a great Chiropractor and bring a different kind of level of care to the health care industry. I want to improve the lives of others through body adjustments and postures, nutrition’s, and through exercise so I can lead them to a better healthier lifestyle that one can enjoy. </p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2016-05-03:/entries/1112203MSIS Degree, Chinese Fluent in Russian2016-05-03T02:05:00-07:002019-01-28T08:01:57-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/196187/352;143;992ebd9ea098d0d000a4249ca583f6e1b86e1fff.jpg" style="float:left">Probably the most unique aspect of my application to your distinguished MSIS program at XXXX University is the fact that I am a young Chinese woman who is fluent in Russian as well as English. The latter seemed to come more naturally for me because I got off to an earlier start; Russian was more difficult, learning it as an undergraduate student in my homeland, China, earning my BA in Russian Languages and Literature with a minor in advertising. This past year, 2014, I finished my Master’s in Public Communication at XXXX University. Earning my Master’s in this area in the USA has done wonders to prepare me to make the optimal contribution professionally to my field, communication, IT, public relations, etc. Still, I feel strongly that I need additional training in general focusing on communication technology and the computer engineering side of business and organizational development. Most of all, I want to become an expert in information systems. This is because I hope at some point to put all three of my languages to work in the area of information systems: English, Russian, and Mandarin.</p>
<p>My father is a professor of Geographic Information Systems and enormously enthusiastic about his research and he has always been that way. His delight has infected me in this area as well and I subsequently stay abreast of developments in this area. My older sister completed a degree in Information Systems in the USA ten years ago and she has also been a great inspiration to her little sister—we are especially excited about digital signal processing.</p>
<p>I want to focus my efforts in the future in becoming the very best promoter of technology possible, as well as becoming a very good database analyst. I want to put my language skills to work as an IT marketer. I see the enhancement of communication between peoples on international and global levels to be especially exciting because it helps to enhance peace and prosperity. I am pleased that I speak the three languages of the world’s 3 greatest military powers, the USA, Russia, and China, because I see contributing to the technological advancement of communication between these powers as conducive to peace and rationality. Thus, I see the career that I am designing for myself as an IT promoter to be ultimately geared towards helping people, especially future generations.</p>
<p>After completing your MSIS program I will seek several additional years of rigorous professional experience on the cutting edge of system analysis and database management. Then, when I feel I have made sufficient progress towards the fullest mastery possible of the technological side of business development, I want to put these tools to work as an IT marketer.</p>
<p>I have been at XXXX for 2 years now and I have come to very much adore our university as well as the surrounding area and for a variety of reasons I feel that I could best excel academically and professionally if I were to stay here to earn my second Master’s Degree, the MSIS. I am very proud of XXXX’s high ranking and I am now part of a vast academic community, peers, professors, university employees, etc. I enjoy XXXX very much because people are friendly, and you can even become friends with professors. The location of XXXX is great, not too far away from the city, but far enough to have the most awesome of views.</p>
<p>I thank you for your consideration of my application to your program.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2016-04-14:/entries/1095403Masters Degree in Finance, Saudi Arabian2016-04-14T11:26:00-07:002019-01-28T08:44:59-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/196078/301;167;e34d08eaa2a809d2e8790c9f3010db341b25676b.jpg" style="float:left">A young Saudi Arabian man, still only 25 years old, I was born into a privileged family and this is the primary reason why I serve as a board member of one of the largest real estate companies in Saudi Arabia, because it is our family business. My father wants very much to start a partner financial company and he is waiting for me to come back from the USA with a Masters in Finance Degree to be able to start our financial company. Despite my privileged background, however, I also come from a very hard-working family that I feel deserves the success that it has achieved. I completed my Bachelors Degree in Business Management with a special concentration in Finance at King Saud University here in Saudi Arabia. In addition to studying, I have also worked alongside and in support of my father for the last 7 years, building, running, and streamlining our real estate investment company.</p>
<p>We also work very hard as a family doing volunteer work, feeding those who fast all day during Ramadan, for example, after sun down every day for a month. I have always worked very hard both at my studies and in our family business and volunteer efforts. This hard work was rewarded early on, at 13 years old, for example, when I was invited to sit for a special exam by the King Abdulaziz Foundation for Giftedness and Creativity, because of my advanced math skills. Perhaps most importantly, I do not consider myself to be a materialistic or greedy person. In fact, I like to think of the career that I am building in finance as a public service, a vocation, and myself as someone who works very hard to serve the public good, community development, as well as the personal advancement of the clients of our company.</p>
<p>My outlook towards Finance is accurately summed up by my deep admiration for the Bangladeshi Muhammad Yunus and his Grameen Bank who jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize for their contributions to humanity and world peace in the areas of microcredit and microfinance. As someone who lives in the Middle East, an increasingly troubled and unstable part of the world, I see microfinance as a way to build peace through prosperity for all.</p>
<p>I want to become recognized in the long term as an expert in my country in the area of international finance. I like to think of myself as a global citizen and I love to travel and learn about new cultures. In addition to the USA, I have spent significant periods of time in Germany, Italy, Spain, Switzerland, Belgium, and the U.A.E. Furthermore, I have also had to opportunity to get to know many people from the Western world professionally, working in a variety of areas of our family real estate business, including marketing as well as finance.</p>
<p>My long term goals in finance include doing everything that I can to offer real estate investment opportunities to people who have modest incomes in order to provide them with greater levels of financial security. I feel strongly that some level of finance should be made available to all citizens for home ownership, something with I think should be an entitlement to some degree in advanced civilizations. While I generally support the International Monetary Fund’s general advice given to Arab countries to reduce or dismantling tariffs and widen the scope of liberalization and de-regulation—I also feel strongly that we need to do this in such as way as to protect the more vulnerable members of our societies. I question whether sustainable economic progress can be achieved based on a blind pursuit of foreign investment for the Arab region, since it often does little or nothing to stimulate either employment or working-class home ownership. I dream of being an international mover and shaker in finance whose efforts help to generate employment, redress inequalities and wage depression in ways that are not only more consistent with human rights, but also stimulate economic recovery.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to our distinguished program.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2016-04-14:/entries/1094674MBA International Business, Finance, Iranian2016-04-14T00:36:00-07:002019-01-28T08:48:13-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/194958/284;177;759802527511bea2bbe8656407248ae8e140d4f2.jpg" style="float:left">Originally from Iran, coming to America at 16 and now 29 years old, I feel almost as American as I do Iranian. I hope very much to be accepted to your MBA Program at XXXX University for several reasons. First and foremost, I simply feel strongly that your program is the strongest program in DC (if not the country); as well as being nearby to where I live and work. I have closely reviewed the MBA Programs in my area, Washington DC, and I remain convinced that XXXX University’s MBA has the most to offer someone like myself who seeks professional success on an international level. In other words, because of the way in which virtually all aspects of your program are designed to respond to our global marketplace, and to think not only creatively but also globally, I feel that I am the best fit for your program at XXU. In addition, I want not only to become a major player in international business, especially finance, but also to progressively assume leadership roles; this is the other major reason why I am convinced that your program at XXU will serve me as the optimal springboard for moving up in the world of international finance and banking.</p>
<p>XXXX University is for me a symbol of the best of globalization and diversity in international commerce, relations, justice, and one of the most innovative MBA Programs in the world. I recognize the rigor of your program but I am tenacious, driven, and determined to succeed; and I crave the challenge. A well-traveled Iranian man who thrives in an international milieu and lives and works in Washington, DC, your program represents the best way for me to advance my career through interdisciplinary study in organization and administration, finance, banking, and a host of related areas.</p>
<p>I work for a bank in Washington, DC processing commercial loan requests and I love both my city and my work with all of my heart. One of my most important tasks is to perform independent, annual risk assessment reviews for individual credits within the loan portfolio. I see my professional experience in risk assessment, in particular, as helping to prepare me to excel in your program at XXU, since this aspect of what we do is so very critical to the security of investments and the opening up of new possibilities in finance.</p>
<p>I particularly prize the way that the program places a top priority on international commerce and trade. Since I live close by, I hope to never miss a guest lecturer in the area of business while a student in your program and no school has a more star-studded list of excellence in guest speakers than George Mason. Progressively, I hope to achieve the cutting edge of excellence in my critical thinking about global commerce and to learn in an interdisciplinary fashion in the context of real world experiences, challenges, and opportunities facing the global marketplace. I also very much appreciate the great diversity that characterizes both your curriculum and faculty, as well as ongoing research taking place at XXU.</p>
<p>I already think of myself as a global citizen and want to move increasingly into the area of international banking. In addition to my native Iran, I have also spent significant amounts of time in Cypress, the UAE, Turkey, and almost all of Western Europe, along with Canada and Mexico. My travels have heightened my sense of professional identity as a global thinker and operator in the context of international business.</p>
<p>I also see your program at XXU as especially impressive with respect to its comprehensive inclusion of<strong> </strong>legal issues along with discussions of business trends in the context of legal issues. I look forward to learning from the Masters on your faculty in this area as well. For me international business and politics are always intertwined and I look forward to making friends as a student in your program with classmates and colleagues from all parts of globe, sharing stories, strategies, hopes and dreams. I hope to learn from elected officials as well, as there is always a great deal to learn from the government itself and the complex relationships that exist between public and private sectors.</p>
<p>My own civic sense of attachment is not only to America, but most particularly Washington DC. And it is to DC that I look forward to making my social contribution as my career progresses. I hope to inspire other minorities, particular Middle Easterners, to excel, and to learn to make the most of their immigrant experience.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to your distinguished program.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2015-11-07:/entries/934162Ph.D. in Linguistics, South Korean Applicant2015-11-07T05:56:00-08:002019-01-28T09:01:46-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/196295/347;145;9db7dbd99cebc6308d64f37926082f67c34dd74a.jpg" style="float:left">I was born and raised in South Korea and came to the US in 2010. I am now in my senior year of a bachelor degree program in English Language and Literature. My goal is to join a challenging but supportive program that will enable me to conduct research relating to the effects of culture on language and to become an expert translator of Korean into English and vice versa and also, ultimately, to provide linguistics and translation training to undergraduate and graduate students.</p>
<p>Korean and English languages come from totally different roots and so have fascinating contrasts but surprisingly many similarities and this interested me in the concepts that are common to all languages and I want to explore this in a formal structured program. During my studies, I have also come to appreciate that translators are often able to offer only an approximation of the meaning actually intended, also that sometimes a lack of understanding of idiom and cultural outlooks can lead to sometimes humorous but also potentially dangerous mistranslations and misunderstandings. Obviously an approximation is sufficient for many purposes but there are many situations in which a highly faithful transmission of an author’s intended meaning is an absolute necessity. I am thinking of such things as manuals for medical equipment or pharmaceutical usage as well as artistic applications such as translations of poetry or dramatic works where inaccuracy arising from a lack of appreciation of cultural context, can result in corruption of the author’s purpose or message.</p>
<p>I have undertaken volunteer work at an orphanage in South Korea and this experience first fired an interest in the power and uses of language. The very young are learning to use the tools that language provides to communicate feelings and wants and quickly become adept and I have contrasted this with the problems of the old who may be losing their facility with language and applying supplementary or compensatory communication in the form of non-verbal signals of their needs and wants. This latter problem will be of increasing interest as the aging of populations accelerate.</p>
<p>I know that linguistics has many applications beyond those that I have specified, such as psychological, social and marking and measuring changes in language and the reasons for such changes. The power of language for good and ill is almost limitless and this is what really interests me, I wish to assist in applying the power of words for the good of humanity. All the different facets of the subject fascinate me and I am certain that my passion will flourish in the Ph.D. program to which I undertake to apply myself fully and enthusiastically.</p>
<p>I believe that my academic results will provide an assurance as to my ability to profit from the program and undertake useful research in this subject.</p>
<p>Thank you for considering my application.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2015-11-02:/entries/929791PsyD Program, PTSD, California2015-11-02T14:14:00-08:002019-01-28T09:06:10-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/196551/275;183;d24f1825de00f78918cef81fc5648f7c8506d3dc.jpg" style="float:left">I am applying to your competitive PsyD Program at the XXXX because I am convinced that my drive and determination will enable me to excel. I have a great passion for research in psychology, particularly in the areas of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Now 36, psychology is a career change for me, a new professional beginning. Married and divorced, I spent 10 years in the mortgage business with my family in the small California town (XXXX) where I grew up. After my marriage failed, I completed my bachelor’s degree in 2 ½ years and then sold my home and moved to the city (Tarzana).</p>
<p>I like to think of myself as a compassionate woman; and that my concern for the suffering of others is what has propelled me towards the study of psychology and the completion of both my Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in this field. I have found my calling in life helping those who suffer from mental health issues and challenges. Now, I keenly look forward to continuing on in my studies and completing the terminal degree in my field at the XXXX and attaining a cutting-edge foundation upon which I will be able to make my maximum contribution to our discipline. I am especially passionate about therapeutic initiatives centered on the concept of mindfulness, particularly with respect to its potential for evoking positive changes in brain chemistry.</p>
<p>I am also passionately engaged with the issue of how we, as psychology professionals, might best go about helping to erase the stigma that is all too often associated with mental health services, particularly among certain ethnic groups, especially Latinos who figure quite prominently into mental health assessments and services here in California. I am working with my Rosetta Stone for Spanish and I hope to continue to make rapid improvement in my Spanish skills so that I might eventually be able to use this language to some extent in the professional area as well.</p>
<p>I became a member of the Society for Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology because I am a thinker who loves to ask questions and a firm believer in the importance of balance between mind, body and soul for optimal health, studying our own past in order to prepare ourselves for the future at the same time that we learn to savor each moment of the present. I am most fascinated with the human mind, its capabilities and limitations, and the debate between dualism and monism. At the center of my focus is the mind's ability to heal the body and the role played by spirituality.</p>
<p>A sense of debt that I feel to my community and nation has also helped to propel my interest in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), especially but not exclusively among our soldiers returning from combat in places like Afghanistan. The fact that I personally have no military experience or any military family members only reinforces the sense that I have of wanting to give something back to those who have sacrificed so much. For years now, I have invested a great deal of time, energy, and heartfelt reflection in the area of PTSD and I want to build a lifetime focus in this area of psychology, to practice and publish about the great challenge that PTSD represents for our society and to do everything that I personally can to respond to this challenge.</p>
<p>I will be finishing my Master’s Degree in December of 2014 and hope to being studying in your program right away, in January of 2015. The focus of my Master’s Program has been in the area of Marriage and Family Therapy and I also want to remain engaged with this area as a lifetime focus. I feel strongly that mental health issues are best dealt with when one is not alone, and I feel special empathy for those who have to wrestle with mental health issues in the context of a failing marriage often aggravated by the stigma associate with mental health issues. I want to devote my life to helping each individual that comes to me for support to feel less alone in their struggle. If I could help them to save their marriage, this would be ideal.</p>
<p>Several years back I was struck by an image of the “Marlboro Man,” a US soldier in sustained combat in Fallujah, Iraq. He had been firing his canon for about 24 hours when the photo was taken, mud, blood spattered all over his face, a Marlboro cigarette dangling from his lips. A young white man from our state of Kentucky who volunteered to go to Iraq to defend our freedoms as our government saw fit; although he sustained no major physical injuries, he would never be the same. Most importantly, his case is not at all unique; there are 10s of thousands of similar cases in America. He came into the spotlight and attracted press attention to his story only because of the award winning photo. The Marlboro Man returned to Kentucky to pick up the pieces of his marriage to his high-school sweetheart. Within a couple of years she would leave him because of his nightmares where he would sometimes half strangle her in his sleep. Alone now, he keeps smoking and suffering.</p>
<p>After earning my PsyD and beginning my practice, I intend to put the Marlboro Man photo on the wall in my office. I also plan to pay very close attention to the issues surrounding PTSD and substance abuse/addictions. My central, long term goal is to create my own non-profit organization to help our veterans. I have several ideas and I am confident that they will mature as I make progress under your expert guidance towards completion of the PsyD Degree at the CSPP. I have been profoundly inspired by the example set by such organizations as Puppies Behind Bars in New York, which rescues dogs from shelters to be trained by inmates, and then given to veterans with PTSD. I find this model to be especially inspiring because of the broad scope of those who benefit, the inmates, the animals, and especially the veterans and their families. No organization such as Puppies Behind Bars yet exists in California. In fact, here in California there is a huge waiting list of veterans who need trained dogs.</p>
<p>I am particularly passionate about the use of animals in therapy because I believe they reach places that people sometimes are just unable to go, especially when the individual is otherwise all alone. This avenue of research and practice dovetails nicely with my volunteer work with the Society for the Prevention and Cruelty of Animals. Volunteer work is in fact central to my identity and mission. I also serve as a Court Appointed Special Advocate and participate in numerous events related to the care of children.</p>
<p>Finally, I hope to engage professionally at some point with virtual reality tanks as a compliment to therapy. I see exposure therapy as a most promising resource, allowing the PTSD sufferer to go back and confront their trauma in a safe environment. Sometimes we need to face the monster under our bed in order to make it go away.</p>
<p>I thank you for considering my application to your distinguished program at the XXXX.</p>
tag:personalstatementservices.com,2015-11-02:/entries/929767Fellowship International Relations, Chinese HK2015-11-02T13:22:00-08:002019-01-28T09:10:39-08:00<p><img alt="" src="https://personalstatementservices.com/files/resized/196201/290;174;fe6e8d57446d25af2fc11594371ef7362a4e1f67.jpg" style="float:left">The worth of a subject, among most of the people I know, is measured only in terms of its income-creating potential. My choice of History was met with incredulity, among relatives and friends who could see no way of capitalizing on knowledge of the past. Bright students are expected to study such subjects as business, medicine or the law; they are definitely not expected to study something as apparently useless as History. Consequently my choice was made only after much thought and some obstruction and so demonstrates, I believe, a genuine passion for History grounded in my identity as a young Chinese from Hong Kong.</p>
<p> My love of history fired a deep interest in politics and in international relations, especially China’s relationships with the rest of the world. Perhaps a Hong Kong Chinese is more attuned to the nuances of the behavior of the Chinese government than many of those who, whether they know it or not, will become more and more affected by its policies and attitudes in the future. As the window of China, Hong Kong’s people have a potentially vital role in helping our compatriots in mainland China to understand other societies and vice versa and in seeking roles that will benignly influence China’s stance in its external relations. I am eager to become involved in research relating to the dynamic nature of contemporary Sino-US relations and the implications of intra-party political struggles to the direction of diplomatic policy.</p>
<p>My long term goal is to become involved in the administration of Hong Kong at a senior level; and perhaps teaching International Relations in major universities as a visiting lecturer. I am especially intrigued with Sino-US relations and the comparative study of the unification processes of Taiwan and Hong Kong. Yet, the materialization of “One China” has many challenges ahead and I wish to prepare myself academically at the University of XXXX because I regard it as the world’s premier institution for the study of international relations. In addition, I hope very much to have the honor of having Professor XXXX—a renowned Sino-US relations expert in the Department of International Relations at the University of XXXX to be my MPhil thesis advisor as my research interests coincide with her area of expertise.</p>
<p>I have been educated in the medium of English throughout my academic career. Almost every course that I took at CUHK was conducted in English and I feel that I am fully prepared, as well as hungry for a complete immersion experience. In order to prepare myself for postgraduate studies at the University of Oxford, I selected courses designated for postgraduate students pursuing the M.A in Comparative Public History at CUHK. I also studied Sociology, Government and Public Administration and was awarded an ‘A’ grade in each, graduating in the top 5% of students. Studying vigorously in several distinct but related disciplines has enriched my understanding and critical edge, helping me to better understand complex issues from a variety of different perspectives.</p>
<p>I was a member of the Social Service Club organized by my secondary school; we visited the elderly and organized activities for them. I also served as Head Librarian at my secondary school where I led a team of librarians in restructuring the previous system to one which could be more user-friendly. I learned the basics of librarianship and this has been of great value, especially for my research, using primary as well as secondary sources.</p>
<p>After entering the university, I was invited to return to my secondary school to assist as a teacher, helping first year students with their homework and revision. I also counseled students who had anxieties about personal or academic problems. The fact that I had so recently shared many similar and very challenging emotions helped me to be both empathetic and highly effective.</p>
<p>In order to prepare myself for postgraduate studies at the University of XXXX, I chose relevant courses designated for postgraduate students pursuing the M.A in Comparative Public History at CUHK. I also took available courses in Sociology, Government and Public Administration and was awarded ‘A’ grade in each, in the top 5% of students. My explorations into various academic disciplines has enriched my knowledge and inspired me to think from a variety of different perspectives. I feel that my academic success serves to demonstrate my ability to excel at XXXX in the interdisciplinary study of international relations.</p>
<p>I cannot claim to be widely traveled but I am very interested in non-Chinese as well as Chinese cultures. I very much look forward to being exposed to British culture and in studying and socializing with people from a wide variety of cultural and social backgrounds. In 2008, I participated in an exchange program run by the National Education Services Center of Hong Kong and had the privilege to study in Pearl River Delta, exploring economic interaction between Hong Kong and that part of mainland China. The drastic changes taking place in the region make me proud to be from Hong Kong and, therefore, sharing in the contributions being made by Honk Kong to Chinese identity and development.</p>
<p>I am thrilled to see China jumping out from the black hole of incessant class struggle and becoming one of the world’s central players in our global economy. I have learned that anyone and everyone can be the source of interesting and useful information. For instance, the waiter or taxi driver who boasts about his brother’s growing trucking business and provides details of the change in the kind of goods he transports for export can provide information that is more useful and current than a 6 month old official report on local economic conditions.</p>
<p>I am aware that there will be many other very well qualified applicants to your scholarship program. I do consider myself to be an exceptional candidate, however, because of my maturity for my age and my clear, long term goals concerning how I plan to apply the knowledge and skills that I hope to acquire at XXXX. I have an excellent academic record, a solid grounding in history, modern politics, sociology, government and public administration especially well-suited to the interdisciplinary study of International Relations with a special focus on Chinese issues and the way that our globalizing economy continues to serve as a motor for increasing levels of collaboration between most of its major players, most notably, at least from my perspective, China and the United States. Thank you for considering my application.</p>