Academia

Guidance, tips, and tools for navigating the academic world

How to Write a Personal Statement

In this video I go over how to write a personal statement for graduate school and college, which can also be applied to a graduate school statement of purpose (phd) essay. I go over a list of key words and phrases that make your reviewers CRINGE, plus some of my own pro tips for common personal statement mistakes, and methods to eliminate fluff in personal statements for grad school, college, and scholarship essays. Hope you found this video useful! Thank you for watching.

 

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How to Find a Research Supervisor

In this video, from my experience, I go over how to find a research supervisor, how to reach out to professors for research, how to write an email to a professor, and general grad school application tips. I am not in graduate school yet, but I have gone through this exact same process when I needed to find a research supervisor and secure a project affiliate for Fulbright. I am now in the process of reaching out to and connecting with professors for graduate school in 2021 or 2022, and have learned many things through trial and error, this video goes over the major lessons learned so far!

 

How to Land your First College Internship

Everything I wish I would've known about landing an internship as a STEM student!