• Leave roughly 1/3 of the essay to talk about the future
  In this section you can describe your interests, goals, career plans after graduate school, and why the school you are applying to is a good choice to pursue these interests. If there is a stringent word limit, make sure you include this part, even at the expense of leaving out some of your past. Your history should be reflected elsewhere in the applications, through your recommendations, cv, etc.
• Don’t list experiences and awards
  If awards are listed elsewhere in the application (which they are according to nearly all forms), don’t put them here again! Not only is it a waste of space but it also makes you sound arrogant. If there is something listed on your c.v. that deserves explanation, you can put it in here, but even then it could be better to have a letter writer mention it, if the award is something s/he is familiar with.
• Write for each school
  Your statement should read as though you wrote it specifically for the school to which you are applying. This may mean that you can leave 5 paragraphs the same for each school and change just the 6th for each application. However, sometimes it means tweaking other parts of the essay as well. I did this for 19 schools, and it was definitely worth it! You should definitely mention specific professors you would like to work with. If you do not do this, your application may be missed altogether (one school said they worked this way, even though they didn’t warn applicants ahead of time!) You may even mention how your interests are specifically aligned to work that some of the professors have done. This step should not be hard if you have already done your research on the schools you’re applying to. 阅读更多…

最近喜欢在Vimeo（号称英文第二大视频网站，居Youtube之后）上乱看，感觉Vimeo上有一些非常有创意的视频，而且，Vimeo对视频的压缩没有Youtube那么狠，高清看起来异常舒服。

考虑到天朝刚刚过完60大寿，所以发一段和阅兵有关的视频，废话不多说，各位直接看吧，绝对惊艳！

重要：最近GFW发飙，墙了一堆网站，Vimeo也未能幸免，各位请翻墙围观。 阅读更多…