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For those of you who have applied to graduate school after being out of school and without relevant work experience, how did you address "gap" time in your personal statement? If the reason for this gap was for personal reasons, but you do NOT want to portray it as such, how did you go around tackling that issue?
Also, if want to get back into the world of research but are no longer in school...where and how would you obtain such experience so that when I apply, my last research experience wouldn't be from a million years ago? It seems like most of people's experiences are from connections they had with their undergraduate institution. I did an internship with a program with NSF and some other summer research programs, but by the time I apply, it will just look like I've been twiddling my thumbs for years if I don't do something else.