09/09/2006, 02:40 PM
The first sentence is always the hardest so don't despair 
There's nothing wrong with loving you're subject since you were young - you've just got to get it across in an original way.
One way of doing this is to avoid mentioning yourself at all in the first statement (I know this sounds odd given it's a personal statement) and just concentrate on your subject, then link this with yourself in the second sentence. E.g.:
History... [some statement about history allowing you to discover other worlds in times gone by]. I wanted to investigate these worlds, to learn and understand more.
Or alternatively:
History... [stuff about how history shapes the world today/learning from history] I now recognise how these past times have had a profound impact not just on my own childhood interest and enjoyment but also the world as it is today.
Of course that's just my opinion - you can also look at some of our personal statement collection http://www.studential.com/personalstatements/default.asp to see how other people started theirs.
There's nothing wrong with loving you're subject since you were young - you've just got to get it across in an original way.
One way of doing this is to avoid mentioning yourself at all in the first statement (I know this sounds odd given it's a personal statement) and just concentrate on your subject, then link this with yourself in the second sentence. E.g.:
History... [some statement about history allowing you to discover other worlds in times gone by]. I wanted to investigate these worlds, to learn and understand more.
Or alternatively:
History... [stuff about how history shapes the world today/learning from history] I now recognise how these past times have had a profound impact not just on my own childhood interest and enjoyment but also the world as it is today.
Of course that's just my opinion - you can also look at some of our personal statement collection http://www.studential.com/personalstatements/default.asp to see how other people started theirs.