Recent content by AditiShahani

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    Admissions Reviewing my statement of purpose for high energy physics PhD applications

    Fair point, One last question, Does this part of my SOP for CMU, makes me look unfocused and not aligned with the program? " my ambitions are toward model-building for beyond the Standard Matter phenomenology and collaborating experimentally to find signatures of said new matter or...
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    Admissions Reviewing my statement of purpose for high energy physics PhD applications

    That’s because Csaba Csaki didn’t answer my email. And I understand what you mean by too specific. I’ll try to see into this. Also, I am worried that my SOP doesn’t have my “personality” or “storytelling in it” I couldn’t understand how to go about it and what to focus more on research. Will...
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    Admissions Reviewing my statement of purpose for high energy physics PhD applications

    I totally agree with you both. I’d already changed these things and rounded up my SOP within 1000 words, and removed that sentence already. I’m uploading the edited version. I first encountered the concept of virtual particles while studying the Casimir effect; I remember pondering how each...
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    Admissions Reviewing my statement of purpose for high energy physics PhD applications

    Can somebody help review my SOP. I’ve already applied to one school but have many other schools to apply to, I know it needs lots of improvement so harsh critical comments are welcomed. Thankyou. I first encountered the concept of virtual particles during my studies of the Casimir effect; I...