The Personal Essay

My law school application is being held up ridiculously by my inability to write a
personal statement.

Of course I've stopped and started a million times, and all of it is absolute crap. If
only I were writing about someone else, I think I might have an easier time with it.
But today, if not every day, I feel that my life is not extraordinary, or exemplary,
or even interesting unless I'm prepared to be entirely self-deprecating, which I
don't think would come off well in an admissions process.

What to do? UGh...

Posted by jvoris at October 17, 2007 06:19 PM