After spending probably forty hours on the most promising version of my personal statement I decided it's absolutely horrible and god-awful boring. I've thrown it in the trash and am starting a new one.
Must squeeze water from rocks...
When the ride ends, go for a ride.
Actions always occur within a social context. The most brilliant physicists on earth have never made a true vacuum. We are part of a limitless conflict between people and wealth, between living activity and dead objects. A bank, whether at an anti-war demonstration or on your way to a friend's apartment, is still a bank.