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1. #Fulbright Personal Statement (PS) 101
Part 1
Before you start writing your PS, you MUST know what a PS actually is. It's very important.
I've seen people trying to write a PS without even knowing what it is, or what it's purpose is 🧵 (20 tweets)
Part 1
Before you start writing your PS, you MUST know what a PS actually is. It's very important.
I've seen people trying to write a PS without even knowing what it is, or what it's purpose is 🧵 (20 tweets)
2. It may be because in Pak/South Asian educational systems, one is required to memorize the materials taught and reproduce them in exams 😢
If you come from such an educational background, writing a PS would ask a significant SHIFT in your perspective.
If you come from such an educational background, writing a PS would ask a significant SHIFT in your perspective.
3. I've seen a lot of people resist changing their worldview as a result of which they approach PS with resentment and even anger 🤷♂️
If you do so, your resentment/anger would show through your writing. And you'll only have your own self to blame then.
If you do so, your resentment/anger would show through your writing. And you'll only have your own self to blame then.
Day 6 RAT negative, did a zoom appt for brother, drove around to get RATs, and had maybe an hour of actually doing work where my concentration was on point and finished reviewing a couple papers..
#Day1311 #AshsPhD
#Day1311 #AshsPhD
My first (of hopefully) many installments of graduate student/early career academic profiles highlights an old friend and classmate: Kenny Liden. @Kenny_Linden is a PhD candidate in @iu_ceus who researches environmental and animal history in #Mongolia. #enviormentalism #Fulbright 
Specifically, Kenny is examining how the socio-political structures and new knowledge brought forth by Soviet-style socialism (especially collectivization) and veterinary science shaped and reshaped human interactions with their living environments.
Kenny is an accomplished scholar who has spent significant time in Mongolia. His dissertation is based primarily on archival work in Ulaanbaatar and Öwörkhangai province and on ethnography in Mongolian countryside. His research has been funded by Fulbright-Hays.
My journey to my #PhD program was an absolute #strugglebus. I graduated with a 2.75 GPA from @GeorgiaTech. Most grad applicants have a 3.5 or higher. #Yikes
I applied anyway 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ (I didn't get admitted into any programs - post bacc, M.S., or PhD) #AcademicChatter
I applied anyway 🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️🤷🏾♀️ (I didn't get admitted into any programs - post bacc, M.S., or PhD) #AcademicChatter
Fortunately, my mentor @RaquelLieberman gave me the opportunity to work as a #research technician in her lab for 2 yrs to gain the experience I needed for grad school.
This is when I first started studying essential pathways that we could disrupt to kill disease causing bacteria
This is when I first started studying essential pathways that we could disrupt to kill disease causing bacteria
After working in her lab for almost 2 years..I reapplied again. This time I felt VERY confident I was ready for the #PhD.
I was denied admission to every single grad program I applied to (including the one I'm in now).
I was denied admission to every single grad program I applied to (including the one I'm in now).
An Anthropologist following Gandhi.
In good company. Delighted & grateful my #Gandhi research project was selected this year.🙏
#Texas #Fulbright #fieldwork #researchculture #teachingisaworkofheart #anthropology #history #media #art #global #India
chronicle.com/article/Top-Pr…
In good company. Delighted & grateful my #Gandhi research project was selected this year.🙏
#Texas #Fulbright #fieldwork #researchculture #teachingisaworkofheart #anthropology #history #media #art #global #India
chronicle.com/article/Top-Pr…
An Anthropologist following Gandhi (2)
India's first Prime Minister famously said "Don't spare me Shankar" (a leading Indian cartoonist). But #Gandhi did not spare Shankar ;) I wrote about this in my book Caricaturing Culture.
#Texas #Fulbright #fieldwork #cartoons #India
India's first Prime Minister famously said "Don't spare me Shankar" (a leading Indian cartoonist). But #Gandhi did not spare Shankar ;) I wrote about this in my book Caricaturing Culture.
#Texas #Fulbright #fieldwork #cartoons #India
An anthropologist following Gandhi (3)
#Gandhi tapped the power of #cartoons & #public communication early into his journalistic career in #SouthAfrica. Cartoons could be Satyagraha (truth force). His #newspaper the Indian Opinion published and interpreted British cartoons.
#Gandhi tapped the power of #cartoons & #public communication early into his journalistic career in #SouthAfrica. Cartoons could be Satyagraha (truth force). His #newspaper the Indian Opinion published and interpreted British cartoons.
