Daily Archives: January 27, 2011

Personal Statement Workshops

If you are thinking about getting an education beyond your undergraduate

degree such as graduate school or professional school, but the idea of

writing your personal statement scares you to death, then you’re in luck!

The Texas Interdisciplinary Plan (TIP) is offering five interactive

workshops this spring to help you begin your personal statement for

application and explore what you want out of a program. This is part of

the Getting Ready for Advanced Degrees (GRAD) initiative and you have

been selected to get first crack at this opportunity. THESE WORKSHOPS

BEGIN NEXT TUESDAY!

At the end of each workshop, you will come out with a product tailored

to your individual path that will be a valuable piece of your personal

statement and your understanding of what you’re after.

These workshops are based on the most effective activities

presented in the famous GRAD Seminar offered in the past several years.

In order to open up this opportunity to a larger community, we are now

offering this information and practice as workshops.

You do not have to attend all five. They are designed to be

self-contained, but they do build on each other. Seating is limited, so

RSVP to Dr.D-R@mail.utexas to save your seat now.

You can also find more information, including a calendar of events

around campus that deal with graduate and professional school, at our

GRAD website: http://www.utexas.edu/tip/GRAD/

Hope to see you there!

Dr. Delgado-Reyes

Friday Night Lights: Free Book and opportunity for honors students to meet the author

Pulitzer Prize winner Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights, will give a public talk at 7:30PM next Thursday, Feb. 3, in the Amphitheater at the AT&T Center. IN ADDITION, honors students are invited to attend a luncheon with the author at noon on Friday, Feb. 4 in the Joynes Reading Room. Space for the luncheon is limited–students who wish to attend should come to the Joynes Reading Room (CRD 007) to add their name and contact info to the RSVP list. ALSO, students who can commit to attend both the Thursday night lecture and the Friday luncheon can pick up a free copy of Friday Night Lights at the Joynes Room front desk, while supplies last.

Questions: 471-5787 or mvalentine@mail.utexas.edu

Echo Accepting Submissions

Echo is now accepting submissions for the 2011 edition! Please submit your poetry, prose, and photography echolitmag@gmail.com by March 21. Our theme this year is “Illumination”. While this is the chosen theme, please do not limit the content that you submit; however, think of it as a general guideline with which you can explore the boundaries. “Illuminate” can mean a spiritual enlightenment, a clarification, or simply a change from dark to light. It can involve some sort of physical transformation or a realization (the familiar light bulb sparking in your mind).The possibilities are endless and are yours for the taking. We feel you all are an enlightened group full of energy and pizzazz, and we look forward to a fine batch of submissions. Please feel free to submit any number of pieces in any or all of the categories!

Sincerely,

The Echo Team

P.S.

If you are interested in helping out the Echo Team read submissions and put together the magazine, please email the same email, echolitmag@gmail.com. We will begin emailing out all the submissions to start reading on March 23rd, and then we will meet April 1st to make final decisions.