yah - I like your new page - yu sound like yu could definately be a popular type of person with believing in the inherent goodness of all beings...way to go!

Ewww...MySpace...I'm irrationally prejudiced, so I'll leave a comment here instead.

More seriously, while looking at your MySpace site I clicked on Susan because I think I met her at your place last summer (hard to tell for sure from the picture) and she had an entry asking for advice on her grad school personal statement.

Here's my advice, which I hope you'll pass along:

What the admissions committee is looking for probably isn't biographical information. What they want is evidence that you've got a dissertation project in mind -- and one that fits with the interests of their faculty. So the thing to do is to write up a concise (one page at most) statement which articulates a problem in the field and points the way toward its solution.

(Oh, and it doesn't have to be a problem that you're actually interested in. The point is just to fool the admissions cmte into thinking that you'll write a dissertation)

(My other advice, for what it's worth, is not to go to grad school)

I do not get the whole myspace thing. I havr used it to keep tabs on coworkers but- so far I have found it to be a complete waste of time

I might add that myspace seems a lot like a STD-- A long chain of people conectected togather in a long string of relationships.