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Essay: Adventures Exploring the World and Unchartered Physics Territory

My Early Youth I was born in 1976 in Valencia (Spain) into a middle-class family. I am the second of four brothers. My parents did not have the opportunity to go to college, as the...

Why ChatGPT can’t write your residency personal statement

I recently worked with a medical student who had spent weeks writing and revising her residency personal statement. Her essay was layered and thoughtful, tracing the arc of her exp...

Power Of The Pen

​There is a profound, almost sacred space that exists between a wandering thought and a blank page. For many of us, writing begins as a simple school exercise—a string of rhyming w...

A Confession: Nature That Nurtured

Author's Note: While this essay is rooted in memory and personal experience, it emerged from the same concern explored in a companion piece on environmental responsibility in Kashm...

Par Film Abhi Baaki Thi….

I had spent the whole period with my neck turned back, eyes fixed on the speaker. The student council results were going to be announced. The principal’s voice filled the room, ann...

But What Do They Want?!? Write Publishable Essays by Analyzing Published Essays

By Allison K Williams A writer friend had an essay rejected fourteen times. It dealt beautifully with the journey of her abusive father’s dementia, and recognizing that her now-car...

Through My Lens: The Accidental Archivist of ‘90s Howard University

A personal essay about the importance of capturing history for others to see.

I Glimpsed My Future at a High School Speech Tournament

Original Oratory by James Davis In every speech kid, I see a version of myself that I love with frightening intensity: 14 years old, a closeted freshman at Liberty High School with...

Taking Yoga Teaching Training? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI for Your Personal Essays.

Authenticity still matters. The post Taking Yoga Teaching Training? Here’s Why You Shouldn’t Use AI for Your Personal Essays. appeared first on Yoga Journal.

The residency personal statement is an identity problem

Last year around this time, a student offered me $1,000 to write the personal statement for their residency application. Not to coach them through exercises that would help them wr...

The residency personal statement is an identity problem

Last year around this time, a student offered me $1,000 to write the personal statement for their residency application. Not to coach them through exercises that would help them wr...

Send Us Your Personal Essays!

Call for Submissions – The International Amy MacRae Award for Memoir By Alison Wearing In May 2019, a small group of women met at a writing retreat in the south of France. Among th...

The Diary Entry I Couldn’t Explain Ended Up Becoming My Reality…

There are some incidents in life that refuse to fit into logic. No matter how many years pass, they continue to sit quietly in a corner of your mind, asking the same unanswered que...

“व्यक्तित्व”

आदरणीय “YOUTH KI AWAAZ ” मंच को प्रणाम के साथ स्वरचित मौलिक कविता सादर समर्पित !मूल भाव / केंद्रीय विचारकविता सोशल मीडिया के युग में मानवीय व्यवहार की दोहरी मानसिकता पर चोट करती है...

Who Am I, You Ask?

How to create a “Person on the Page” when that person is you By Dinty W. Moore I’ve been teaching memoir since dinosaurs roamed the planet (maybe an exaggeration) and one consisten...

An Unusual Relationship- A Writing Challenge

For most of my life, writing was my guardian, friend, mirror, and voice long before it became my profession.Continue reading on Pen With Paper »

Public Thesis: The Liberating Potential of Authenticity: An Exploration of the Intersection between…

Alright guys — I tossed this together in an AI generator. I’m trying to run like three different channels while juggling life, and I’m…Continue reading on Medium »

I Said Yes to Something I Knew Nothing About (And It Changed How I See Myself)

Embracing new challenges overcomes fixed mindsets and unlocks unexpected skill growth and enjoyment. The post I Said Yes to Something I Knew Nothing About (And It Changed How I See...

A moment that changed me: A telegram arrived – and I had to choose between my head and my heart

Should I follow the man of my dreams to work in a club in Tehran? Or take up a place at an elite university? Thankfully, my dad gave me advice I’ve lived by ever since My parents d...

[Time Trowel] Graduation: No one gets there alone

Faculty members see more than what unfolds on stage. We remember the drafts, conference presentations, fieldwork challenges, frustrations, and moments when students themselves were...

Self-Expression Isn’t A Distraction!

I don't understand how one swipe of an eyeliner defines my whole future ahead. Every time I try to look different or try something new, I hear the same line: "Study, these things d...

The Words We Choose and the Connections We Make

Key Factors That Influence College Admissions Decisions

The college admissions process has evolved to consider the whole student, focusing on both academic and personal qualities. Factors like academic performance, extracurricular activ...

In Debt to Greatness

I have never been especially convinced that I conned my way into Oxford. The process is far too draining and bureaucratic for that. Various people had gone over my grades, examined...