Last year I applied for a travel fellowship that gives the winners $20k to go away. There's really not much more to it than that. My essay got me to the interview round, but I didn't get the fellowship ( Read more... )

Submitted my grad school application in person this afternoon. I'll hear back in a month or so. Thanks everyone who helped with the essay. The submitted version was pretty much the third draft with a very few minor changes.

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Drafted my essay for grad school today. Last night I started with my old Stanford essay, but at 3am I realized it was just the wrong thing. The program is different and I'm different ( Read more... )