Alright, it’s finally set up. Before reading the Personal Statements (PS) here, I hope you can take a look at this brief introduction.
For a long time, students have been asking me: “Coach Leo, can you share more sample texts for us to learn from?” I’ve explained before that on the one hand, I believe what I’ve shared is indeed sufficient for you to learn from. On the other hand, the more personalized, excellent, and outstanding a piece is, the less likely the author is willing to share it. And it’s not very feasible for me to spend a lot of effort to “depersonalize” these pieces (preserving the learnability of the text while essentially erasing the author’s mark), until the advent of ChatGPT.
As I said above, only when I can confidently remove identifiable traces of the author and the text still retains great learnability, do I feel it’s appropriate to “display” them like I do today for educational purposes. So please note when reading: nearly all the name-related writings (people’s names, school names, book names, place names, etc.) in these articles are AI fabrications. The overall direction of the articles tries to retain the original flavor, but specific sentences may have been rewritten by AI. This rewriting may have corrected the original text’s errors, which is a good thing; but it might’ve replaced the “human” tone I prefer with a more machine-like tone, or omitted some details for confidentiality reasons, which is a bad thing. What I strive to do is to keep these changes within the range of “equal substitution”.
So, I hope all the articles on this website bring you new understandings, inspirations, and discoveries about PS. In the AI era, I hope you haven’t given up writing your own Personal Statement in your words.