It took me five years after I joined the Navy, to realise what years of dwelling upon the likes of Mutiny on the Bounty and Moby Dick inspired me towards, wasn’t really the rigours of life at sea, but a deep and lasting love for literature. It has been my diligent endeavour thereon, to pursue the subject as diligently and forthrightly as possible. ( Read more... )

I'm down to the wire and I've been completely stuck on how to revise my statement. This is draft number two; in my first draft I put in "a little more "SQUEE!" and a little less substance," as one of my friends put it. I've tried to add more concrete information about what I want to study, but I think I'm still a little light on the "why" ("because ( Read more... )

Hi! I heard about this community last week while perusing a Lit GRE website. Now that the subject test is out of the way, I want to work on my personal statement, which, like many people , I’ve been putting off. This is my first rough draft, done for the sake of putting an end to my perpetual procrastination, so I am not wedded to any of the ( Read more... )