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Personal Statement: I have never had any trouble unearthing my desire to study history during the past years of A-Level and GCSE. As each year has passed, my study of history has evolved to become more diverse and limitless, developing from a simple study of the past, to become a complex evaluative

More than anything else it is my curiosity that defines me. The decisions I make, the actions I take all follow as natural consequences of this quality. An unanswered question creates tension in my mind, a nagging that won’t end until I know the answer. And that’s what has motivated me to learn, to

[SECTION:why]I am Tanzanian-German. Coming from two contrasting cultures I often question my identity based on the nature-nurture debate. Have my cultures shaped my values, or is my behaviour predetermined? A study conducted at McLean’s Neurobiology of Fear Laboratory highlighted a difference in gre

There is a common purpose that binds history, philosophy, and science together - the quest to understand the past, present, and future of the universe. Growing up, I was unable to explore such connections. Under the pressure to conform to established Polish educational norms, I was advised that I sh

"Your personal statement must include the following sections must state clearly the word count for each section Motivation for applying: What is your motivation for applying to the MSc Global Health Science and Epidemiology at the University of Oxford? Please also illustrate why you have specificall

Coming from Japan and having lived in Germany, the Netherlands and France due to my father’s expatriate status, I have had the opportunity to observe four different countries’ approaches to social debates. I was particularly intrigued by the stark contrast in the responses to international immigrant

Statement of purpose Sleep is a phenomenon spanning every studied species, predating the development of a brain, yet after decades of study its mechanisms remain elusive. Work in this field has great translational potential for the wide-ranging and often debilitating effects of abnormal sleep regul

Society's romanticisation of the medical field ushered in me the ambition to become a doctor from an early age. It did not arrive through careful introspection but rather by naïve assumptions too removed from reality. A chance reading of Six Months in Sudan made me question my beliefs. So, over my h

A little girl on a construction site, the child in the hardhat, the one nobody acknowledges. Six years later, this little girl still loves to visit construction sites, having observed the impact Kenya's civil engineers have had through the Standard Gauge Railway, the Thika Superhighway and Africa's

Civil engineering is the key to the infrastructure that is the foundation to our civilisation and without this discipline, our society would fail to function. The Shanghai Tower first drew my attention to the field. Its’ 120-degree twisting structure with a glass skin facade, not only reduces the ef

How am I writing this statement? I refer to process, not content. I want to know how the cells in the 3 pound lump of fatty tissue in my skull has released chemical signals to be relayed down the nerves in my arms and made the muscles in my fingers contract; how the visual cortex has deciphered the

All my life I have been fascinated by people, how they think and behave and how society influences this behavior. Although I moved to the UK at a young age, I was born in South Africa, which is where my family originate from, and so I have been exposed to two vastly different cultures throughout my