MSIII

Personal Statements
You probably won’t be writing your personal statements for a few more months, but you can prepare yourself to do it. One of the best ways of doing this is to journal. It need only be a notebook or a place on your computer where you write something nearly every day–just a line or two. Then periodically take one of those lines and expand on it. Just a free-flow of thoughts is fine. Refine these thoughts later if you’d like, or just leave them as you wrote them. This will provide you with all sorts of ideas for your personal statement when the time comes.

If you are ahead of the curve and want someone to look at your personal statement for content, either your campus dean or Dr. Dorscher (or both) would be happy to provide that service.  If you want someone to look at your document for sentence structure and punctuation, send it to Career Services at UND UND.careerservices@UND.edu, or the UND Writing Center. Give them plenty of time, though, since they can get really busy.