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350,000 KASHMIRI PUNDITS, 5000 YEARS OLD CULTURE, A COMMUNITY WITH 100% LITERACY - 19TH JANUARY 1990
BENAZIR BHUTTO :(
MUSLIMS
SECULARISM
POLITICS
GUJARAT
GODHRA
MODI
I VOTE FOR HIM
23.11.07
11.10.07
SOP - Guidelines
WRITING A STATEMENT OF PURPOSEWRITING A WINNING STATEMENT OF PURPOSE• Before you start, check out the tips below on "Getting Started" I. Determine your purpose in writing the statement Usually the purpose is to persuade the admissions committee that you are an applicant they should choose. You may want to show that you have the ability and motivation to succeed in your field, or you may want to show the committee that, on the basis of your experience, you are the kind of candidate who will do well in the field. Whatever the purpose, it must be explicit to give coherence to the whole statement.Pay attention to the purpose throughout the statement so that extraneous material is left out. 2. Pay attention to the audience (committee) throughout the statement. Remember, your audience is made up of faculty members who are experts in their field. They want to know that you can think as much as what you think.
II. Determine the content of your statement Be sure to answer any direct questions fully. Analyze the questions or guidance statements for the essay completely and answer all parts. For example: "What are the strengths and weaknesses in setting and achieving goals and working through people?" In this question there are actually six parts to be answered 1) strengths in setting goals, 2) strengths in achieving goals, 3) strengths in working through people, 4) weaknesses in setting goals, 5) weaknesses in achieving goals and 6) weaknesses in working through people. Pay attention to small words. Notice: This example question says through people not with people, if it says with people, answer that way. Usually graduate and professional schools are interested in the following: 1. Your purpose in graduate study. This means you must have thought this through before you try to answer the question. 2. The area of study in which you wish to specialize. This requires that you know the field well enough to make such decision. 3. Your future use of your graduate study. This will include your career goals and plans for your future. 4. Your special preparation and fitness for study in the field. This is the opportunity to relate your academic background with your extracurricular experience to show how they unite to make you a special candidate. 5. Any problems or inconsistencies in your records or scores such as a bad semester. Be sure to explain in a positive manner and justify the explanation. Since this is a rebuttal argument, it should be followed by a positive statement of your abilities.
6. Any special conditions that are not revealed elsewhere in the application such as a large (35 hour a week) work load outside of school. This too should be followed with a positive statement about yourself and your future. 7. You may be asked, "Why do you wish to attend this school?" This requires that you have done your research about the school and know what its special appeal is to you. 8. Above all this, the statement is to contain information about you as a person. They know nothing about you that you don’t tell them. You are the subject of the statement.Determine your approach and the style of the statement There is no such thing as "the perfect way to write a statement." There is only the one that is best for you and fits your circumstances. 1. There are some things the statement should not be:Avoid the "what I did with my life" approach. This was fine for grade school essays on "what I did last summer." It is not good for a personal statement. Equally elementary is the approach "I’ve always wanted to be a __________." This is only appropriate if it also reflects your current career goals. Also avoid a statement that indicates your interest in psychology is because of your own personal psychotherapy or a family member’s psychological disturbance. While this may have motivated many of us to go on to graduate study in psychology, this is not what your audience is necessarily looking for in your statement.
These are some things the statement should do: It should be objective yet self-revelatory. Write directly and in a straightforward manner that tells about your experience and what it means to you. Do not use "academese" or jargon. It should form conclusions that explain the value and meaning of your experiences such as: (1) what you learned about yourself; (2) about your field; (3) about your future goals; and (4) about your career concerns. It should be specific. Document your conclusions with specific instances or draw your conclusions as the result of individual experience. See the list of general Words to Avoid Using without Explanation listed below. It should be an example of careful persuasive writing. CONSIDERTIONS ABOUT FORM: Keep to the Page Limit Number!!! Reviewers have to read hundreds of these applications, don’t overburden them with extra pages. Do not leave in typographical errors. You don’t want to be taken less seriously due to a typo, rite? (laugh)
WORDS TO AVOID USING WITHOUT EXPLANATIONSignificant Invaluable appealing to me interesting exciting, excited appealing aspect challenging enjoyable, enjoy I like it satisfying, satisfaction I can contribute it’s important rewarding valuable fascinating gratifying helpful appreciate meaningful useful helping people meant a lot to me feel good I like to help stimulating remarkable people incredible
GETTING STARTED EXERCISES: A. Recalling and analyzing experience - write short paragraphs on the following: 1. Pick a memorable accomplishment in your life. What did you do? How did you accomplish it? 2. What sort of important activities have you engaged in? With whom? what role did you play? 3. What work experiences have you had? What was your job? responsibility? How did you carry it out?• Now look over your paragraphs. What skills and qualities do you see that you possess? For example, consider working with others. Were you a leader? important "team" player? • Looking at what you have found, you can now look for skills and qualities that will help you in graduate school. What factors stand out? • NOTE: You will undoubtedly have more material than you can use. This is good, but you need to make strategic choices.B. Your career goals - write two short paragraphs: 1. What career have you chosen? What factors formed this decision? 2. What evidence shows that this is a correct choice? That is, how can you show that this choice is realistic? (Personal experience in the field is a good place to begin.)
II. Determine the content of your statement Be sure to answer any direct questions fully. Analyze the questions or guidance statements for the essay completely and answer all parts. For example: "What are the strengths and weaknesses in setting and achieving goals and working through people?" In this question there are actually six parts to be answered 1) strengths in setting goals, 2) strengths in achieving goals, 3) strengths in working through people, 4) weaknesses in setting goals, 5) weaknesses in achieving goals and 6) weaknesses in working through people. Pay attention to small words. Notice: This example question says through people not with people, if it says with people, answer that way. Usually graduate and professional schools are interested in the following: 1. Your purpose in graduate study. This means you must have thought this through before you try to answer the question. 2. The area of study in which you wish to specialize. This requires that you know the field well enough to make such decision. 3. Your future use of your graduate study. This will include your career goals and plans for your future. 4. Your special preparation and fitness for study in the field. This is the opportunity to relate your academic background with your extracurricular experience to show how they unite to make you a special candidate. 5. Any problems or inconsistencies in your records or scores such as a bad semester. Be sure to explain in a positive manner and justify the explanation. Since this is a rebuttal argument, it should be followed by a positive statement of your abilities.
6. Any special conditions that are not revealed elsewhere in the application such as a large (35 hour a week) work load outside of school. This too should be followed with a positive statement about yourself and your future. 7. You may be asked, "Why do you wish to attend this school?" This requires that you have done your research about the school and know what its special appeal is to you. 8. Above all this, the statement is to contain information about you as a person. They know nothing about you that you don’t tell them. You are the subject of the statement.Determine your approach and the style of the statement There is no such thing as "the perfect way to write a statement." There is only the one that is best for you and fits your circumstances. 1. There are some things the statement should not be:Avoid the "what I did with my life" approach. This was fine for grade school essays on "what I did last summer." It is not good for a personal statement. Equally elementary is the approach "I’ve always wanted to be a __________." This is only appropriate if it also reflects your current career goals. Also avoid a statement that indicates your interest in psychology is because of your own personal psychotherapy or a family member’s psychological disturbance. While this may have motivated many of us to go on to graduate study in psychology, this is not what your audience is necessarily looking for in your statement.
These are some things the statement should do: It should be objective yet self-revelatory. Write directly and in a straightforward manner that tells about your experience and what it means to you. Do not use "academese" or jargon. It should form conclusions that explain the value and meaning of your experiences such as: (1) what you learned about yourself; (2) about your field; (3) about your future goals; and (4) about your career concerns. It should be specific. Document your conclusions with specific instances or draw your conclusions as the result of individual experience. See the list of general Words to Avoid Using without Explanation listed below. It should be an example of careful persuasive writing. CONSIDERTIONS ABOUT FORM: Keep to the Page Limit Number!!! Reviewers have to read hundreds of these applications, don’t overburden them with extra pages. Do not leave in typographical errors. You don’t want to be taken less seriously due to a typo, rite? (laugh)
WORDS TO AVOID USING WITHOUT EXPLANATIONSignificant Invaluable appealing to me interesting exciting, excited appealing aspect challenging enjoyable, enjoy I like it satisfying, satisfaction I can contribute it’s important rewarding valuable fascinating gratifying helpful appreciate meaningful useful helping people meant a lot to me feel good I like to help stimulating remarkable people incredible
GETTING STARTED EXERCISES: A. Recalling and analyzing experience - write short paragraphs on the following: 1. Pick a memorable accomplishment in your life. What did you do? How did you accomplish it? 2. What sort of important activities have you engaged in? With whom? what role did you play? 3. What work experiences have you had? What was your job? responsibility? How did you carry it out?• Now look over your paragraphs. What skills and qualities do you see that you possess? For example, consider working with others. Were you a leader? important "team" player? • Looking at what you have found, you can now look for skills and qualities that will help you in graduate school. What factors stand out? • NOTE: You will undoubtedly have more material than you can use. This is good, but you need to make strategic choices.B. Your career goals - write two short paragraphs: 1. What career have you chosen? What factors formed this decision? 2. What evidence shows that this is a correct choice? That is, how can you show that this choice is realistic? (Personal experience in the field is a good place to begin.)
7.7.07
7.6.07
Safety FIRST. No immunity LATER
According to today's regulators and bureaucrats, those of us who were kids in the 70's and early 80's probably shouldn't have survived, because our baby cots were covered with brightly colored lead-based paint, which was promptly chewed and licked. We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, or latches on doors or cabinets and it was fine to play with pans. When we rode our bikes, we wore no helmets, just flip flops on our wheels. We would ride in cars with no seat belts or airbags - riding in the passenger seat was a treat. We drank water from the garden hose and not from a bottle and it tasted the same, sometimes, even better.
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank cola with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this. We would spend hours with scooters and then went topspeed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded. We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, and no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends and we went outside and found them. We played with marbles and king, and sometimes that ball really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents. We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 (ok 4,if you like it) and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
We ate chips, bread and butter pudding and drank cola with sugar in it, but we were never overweight because we were always outside playing. We shared one drink with four friends, from one bottle or can and no one actually died from this. We would spend hours with scooters and then went topspeed down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. We would leave home in the morning and could play all day, as long as we were back before it got dark. No one was able to reach us and no one minded. We did not have Play stations or X-Boxes, no video games at all. No 99 channels on TV, no videotape movies, no surround sound, no mobile phones, no personal computers, and no Internet chat rooms.
We had friends and we went outside and found them. We played with marbles and king, and sometimes that ball really hurt. We fell out of trees, got cut and broke bones but there were no lawsuits. We had full on fistfights but no prosecution followed from other parents. We played knock-and-run and were actually afraid of the owners catching us. We walked to friend's homes. We also, believe it or not, WALKED to school; we didn't rely on mummy or daddy to drive us to school, which was just round the corner. We made up games with sticks and tennis balls. We rode bikes in packs of 7 (ok 4,if you like it) and wore our coats by only the hood. The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke a law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law.
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers and problem solvers and inventors, ever. The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas. We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned how to deal with it all.
And you're one of them. Congratulations!
28.5.07
BLACK AND BLUE
if you read bad, pessimisitic and sluggish views and words, you feel BLACK
if you read good, optimistic and jovial comments, you feel BLUE
thats why you are beaten black and blue, for all the bad and good things
SILENCE is not golden, talk yourself out, and you'll be more relieved.
MY CAREER OBJECTIVE IS NOT TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY, my life's motto is to be happy, so that people learn something from me.
if you read good, optimistic and jovial comments, you feel BLUE
thats why you are beaten black and blue, for all the bad and good things
SILENCE is not golden, talk yourself out, and you'll be more relieved.
MY CAREER OBJECTIVE IS NOT TO MAKE PEOPLE HAPPY, my life's motto is to be happy, so that people learn something from me.
26.5.07
Expressions: vaguely vague
I AM TOO COWARDLY TO ADMIT MY BEHAVIOUR, but too strong to admit my faults to someone I can only adore.
It is such that "useless" defines me only as,
1. of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
2. without useful qualities; of no practical good: a useless person; a useless gadget.
Well, beyond this they should not use words.
Realism, life itself is a dream. Dreaming is living. Live life on the path that dreams for you. Dreams are dreamt, not lived. The first is an altruism, euphemism, liar and a pessimistI dont see much difference, just that the pessimist used NOT"
from martin luther king : Brother, the word was not written by me, it belonged to one of your brethren. Twist it, your brethren think the same of you, as you of them. Another try, brother think like me. One more, the written word speaks not all by itself. Final, think or write, your brethren just know it.
opportunity lurking, is a misinterpretation of your cowardice ... You are brave, my friend
It is such that "useless" defines me only as,
1. of no use; not serving the purpose or any purpose; unavailing or futile: It is useless to reason with him.
2. without useful qualities; of no practical good: a useless person; a useless gadget.
Well, beyond this they should not use words.
Realism, life itself is a dream. Dreaming is living. Live life on the path that dreams for you. Dreams are dreamt, not lived. The first is an altruism, euphemism, liar and a pessimistI dont see much difference, just that the pessimist used NOT"
from martin luther king : Brother, the word was not written by me, it belonged to one of your brethren. Twist it, your brethren think the same of you, as you of them. Another try, brother think like me. One more, the written word speaks not all by itself. Final, think or write, your brethren just know it.
opportunity lurking, is a misinterpretation of your cowardice ... You are brave, my friend
11.5.07
Holiday Swings
When you are on a tight schedule and up to some no non-sense lectures and hard COPY projects, your mind always calculates the days, hours and by the minutes time left to submit. Instantaneously the head responds and acts by the milliseconds, easily missing a shower, breakfast, lunch or for the fact that u failed to trim your hair or put on a deo. This lethargy towards living can be pictured by some as ecstasy and hard work, while the preachers know it as LIVE LIFE, KINGFISHER SIZE. To no ends you live uncivilized for maybe a week or 10 ends to give real useless exams that ascertain your standard with a group that also accumulates to only a infinitely small figure compared to your playing field of say a few billions. So, enjoying holidays is making some sense to me, now.
Billions and kingfisher remind me of Vijay Mallaya and Vitthalbhai Mallaya, Bangalore and the aviation sector. Such business and luck that people carry are never by only faith, but by a vision. Sounds nasty philosophy, can common sense be a party to philosophy, who understands both these things are never heard of, because either philosophy runs into no senses or it preaches the uncommon word. Here I am talking of the same "philosophy" that help people use to control their senses and make a whole lot of decisions. Well, some stay with their 12 yr old philosophy, some grow to 40 and some keep changing their philo' unto death.........so what it should make you laugh and no one else cry.
My business statistics are a bit awry, so I wouldn't say where the unsavory aviation sector is running, but i want to see the next generation of planes to be smarter and capable of churning longer distances rather than sticking to the current competition of big and overhauled A300s. Nasty it seems, but at this pace, the space only looks like a dream. MAN HAS STOPPED FLYING BECAUSE COLUMBIA ATE A YEAR INTO MANKIND.
I was also thinking on the lines of oil scarcity, seeing no progress in applications of renewable energy.
Siddhuism - that country Shall be the superpower tomorrow, only if she has bums firing lesser smoke and body simmering in the sun, hair like wind churners and pees with a turbine generator.....text truncated because of communal sensitivity.
Billions and kingfisher remind me of Vijay Mallaya and Vitthalbhai Mallaya, Bangalore and the aviation sector. Such business and luck that people carry are never by only faith, but by a vision. Sounds nasty philosophy, can common sense be a party to philosophy, who understands both these things are never heard of, because either philosophy runs into no senses or it preaches the uncommon word. Here I am talking of the same "philosophy" that help people use to control their senses and make a whole lot of decisions. Well, some stay with their 12 yr old philosophy, some grow to 40 and some keep changing their philo' unto death.........so what it should make you laugh and no one else cry.
My business statistics are a bit awry, so I wouldn't say where the unsavory aviation sector is running, but i want to see the next generation of planes to be smarter and capable of churning longer distances rather than sticking to the current competition of big and overhauled A300s. Nasty it seems, but at this pace, the space only looks like a dream. MAN HAS STOPPED FLYING BECAUSE COLUMBIA ATE A YEAR INTO MANKIND.
I was also thinking on the lines of oil scarcity, seeing no progress in applications of renewable energy.
Siddhuism - that country Shall be the superpower tomorrow, only if she has bums firing lesser smoke and body simmering in the sun, hair like wind churners and pees with a turbine generator.....text truncated because of communal sensitivity.
30.4.07
COPIED poetry
I'm broke but I'm happy
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chickenshit
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet.............
I'm poor but I'm kind
I'm short but I'm healthy, yeah
I'm high but I'm grounded
I'm sane but I'm overwhelmed
I'm lost but I'm hopeful
I feel drunk but I'm sober
I'm tired but I'm working, yeah
I care but I'm restless
I'm here but I'm really gone
I'm wrong and I'm sorry
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be quite alright
And what it all comes down to
Is that I haven't got it all figured out just yet
I'm free but I'm focused
I'm green but I'm wise
I'm hard but I'm friendly
I'm sad but I'm laughing
I'm brave but I'm chickenshit
What it all comes down to
Is that everything's gonna be fine fine fine
And what it all boils down to
Is that no one's really got it figured out just yet.............
9.4.07
addicted
i am almost confused between lines that talk about areas diversifying into post graduation, jobs and girls. It is more of a psychic attention that can eat up my daily routine thinking and thinking. Casual or lethargic attitudes sometimes say "live long, stick longer" tensions shout "small, ideal lives".
can i summarize that an individual can find one, equal in head and unequal in kind, but still be at bay trying to call it a lame day. addiction is not only to social evils, but social goods precocupying my mind are so damn ghostly.
i don't want to loose now, being a winner one day !!
can i summarize that an individual can find one, equal in head and unequal in kind, but still be at bay trying to call it a lame day. addiction is not only to social evils, but social goods precocupying my mind are so damn ghostly.
i don't want to loose now, being a winner one day !!
25.2.07
it is really difficult to teach someone at 45, how to start using the internet, well I dont c that as a challenge but it is more of controlling your anger.
The fact is that starting a computer and operating a Windows OS and then playing with the net has been too long in my head ( since 96), so when I have to teach someone right on from scratch, a naive person... the story has no good behaviours.
well for starters she just tried her new user name and password on the yahh mess. , that icreated in google mail.
i can laugh at myself, she is a school teacher. Learning never ends) just thinking back at the amount of things she taught me. Love you,
The fact is that starting a computer and operating a Windows OS and then playing with the net has been too long in my head ( since 96), so when I have to teach someone right on from scratch, a naive person... the story has no good behaviours.
well for starters she just tried her new user name and password on the yahh mess. , that icreated in google mail.
i can laugh at myself, she is a school teacher. Learning never ends) just thinking back at the amount of things she taught me. Love you,
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