“Are you ok? Where are you lost now?” I was brought back by the sound of my friend snapping her fingers in my face. “It’s nothing! Just a bit of a headache”, I said, screwing up my eyes while inwardly cursing my real affliction of being an open book. …

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a graduate school Statement of Purpose is singularly the most difficult piece that you will ever write. Is it the toughest of the writing prompts? Hardly! It is about your work and your aspirations, something that you could talk about for hours given…