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An Annotated Statement of Purpose - Saujas’ homepage

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I’ve recently found myself giving a lot of similar advice to PhD applicants regarding the statement of purpose. While doing this, I often found myself wanting to provide examples of how something could be done, rather than simply describing what I think would be nice to have. So, I decided to annotate my own statement of purpose with some more information of why I decided to write it this way. Based on advice I received from my mentors, the qualities I wanted to highlight in my SOP are: My initial drafts hardly touched upon these topics, and it was through a lot of feedback that I was able to understand why and how I should write about these, and I hope to shed a little light on this through this post. At the end of the post, I have some more thoughts, resources, and context about the application process and statement of purpose more broadly. Language allows humans to make infinite use of finite means. We can understand situations and ideas we have never encountered from structured mes

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