11/09/2006, 04:38 PM
I am middle aged considering returning to university 25 years after my first degree. I am struggling because the style of language used in the personal statements is totally alien to that used in my 5 years of employmnet or indeed to get a job. EG I have always been advised to begin sentences with I despite sounding a bit arrogant. Although the essays are beautifully crafted and I'd be proud if my children did them, they just aren't me. I have so much personal information and values to cram in that I am unsure whether to spend a paragraph which seems designed to impress the university about my creative writing. Hope this doesn't sound like a put down but I am wanting to sell my life skills and motives for the career change and nothing fits here. Any other oldies fel the same?