Personal statement - Essay Example

er’s degree in the United States and was considered to be a very good specialist, therefore, the senior faculties were asking me if I was good in statistics as well as in SPSS. It was not very pleasant for me to see that they really got disappointed when I said that unfortunately, I was not. When I asked them about the reason behind asking me they explained that they were looking for help in statistics course. This was a great surprise for me and I really couldn’t understand why they asked me as they have a person who taught that course and I assumed that she should have been a specialist in the field.

I didn’t bother myself to find out this since I was busy teaching other courses. At the same time it was upsetting that I could not provide any help when I was asked for it. As I’m working as a lecturer I have an opportunity and great desire to receive PhD. Therefore, I did apply for several universities and I was lucky enough to be accepted in George Mason University (GMU) but I faced a problem connected with statistics again as I did not have a statistics course in my master, but it was necessary to enter GMU.

Consequently, GMU required me to take a pre-request course of statistics. The good thing was that course was online so I did not have to travel to the USA for a summer course and the bad thing was that my background in statistics is not good enough to start with online course. I understood that I should improve my statistics as soon as possible as I had statistics in my undergraduate and I started to struggle. To tell the truth, at first I hesitated whether to take the course or not. I called my friend who is studying at GMU to get her advice.

She told me if I don’t take it this summer I will not definitely be enrolled in a PhD program. In other word, I’ll have to wait a year. After her advice, I decided to take the online pre-request course of statistics. I enrolled in the course and the drama started. At the beginning I needed some help with