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- From: breadyg@sage.cc.purude.edu (george b.)
- Subject: school personal statements
- Message-ID: <breadyg-230193125236@heavmac2.cc.purdue.edu>
- Followup-To: alt.recovery
- Sender: news@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (USENET News)
- Organization: purdue comm dept
- Date: Sat, 23 Jan 1993 18:04:23 GMT
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- things are going well in the recovering life so far. interesting
- experience for me now is composing those "personal statements" so beloved
- by law schools, grad schools, etc. who is this guy in my statements? i
- want to marry him...and i'm already married (and hetero, besides). anyway,
- seriously folks, it has been a valuable experience to put down on paper the
- positive side of recovery. sure, i've felt it was a positive thing for
- quite some time, but writing it down for other, likely non-alcohol/drug
- addicts to see -and judge- is an interesting exercise. how to be humble,
- without being self-serving, servile, scraping, egotisitic, etc.? will
- admissions committees just say screw this guy, he won't be in our law
- class? or will i add to the "diversity" and be a valuable addition? i do
- feel even stronger and happier in my sobriety than before by doing this.
- some people recommended against mentioning the recovery in the letter, yet
- i felt a need to explain my abysmal grades at William and Mary and other
- fine institutions; not to excuse my past actions, but to show how i am a
- different person today. any advice on filling out such self-serving
- statements? good experiences, bad experiences, etc?
- i just started playing on this newsline and look forward to seeing
- meaningful exchanges here, not just the whining of people in need of a big
- pity pot. oh yeah, the treatment center i went to was really big on
- codeps...both my roomates over my month-long stay were codeps...it was
- great, they would agree to anything!!!
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