Psychology Graduate School Personal Statement

Graduate School Personal Statement Assignment

The earliest memory I have of my fondness for psychology is sitting in my mother’s office, scanning a bookshelf filled with psychology books to find a book with a friendly title. As I was only around nine or ten years old, a friendly title to me was anything that I could reasonably understand, but slowly that changed, and I began choosing the books that interested me. In fact, because my mother was a psychologist, I was able to have long conversations with her about interesting psychology topics, and I would always ask her the different questions that I had. And eventually as I got older, there were two eureka moments that sparked my interest in studying psychology.

First, through discussions with my mother and my independent explorations of psychology, I realized that I could apply psychological concepts whenever I wanted to better understand or analyze a topic. For instance, daily habits, behavior, or even political and cultural movements could be understood better using some form of psychological analysis. I really enjoyed this aspect of psychology because it was a field that provided me with information that was both useful to me and to others around me. My second eureka moment was when I realized that my own bookshelf was beginning to resemble the one in my mother’s office, and that our discussions were no longer comprised of questions I had for her, but also questions that she would ask me. These two realizations and additional factors led me to pursue an undergraduate degree in …show more content…
During this time, I made a conscious decision to engage in these various domains, so that I could expose myself to all that psychology could offer, which helped me understand exactly what path I wanted to create for