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Okay, so this is how to elevate your messaging for medical or dental school applications. And so what we're gonna cover, we have a few things. I wanna cover why the personal statement is so important. I feel like students innately understand that it's important, but I kind of wanna pitch you on why truly it is such a kind of a pivotal part of your application because if you're invested in why it's so central, then you'll do better work. I wanna talk a little bit about the main elements of a personal statement. Sometimes this is kind of reframed or kind of it needs to be, or should be reframed for students as they start writing it. I will show you sample body paragraphs because I really think that workshopping kind of successful body paragraphs helps students kind of see where a goal is, but also kind of how in a very concrete fashion, someone can approach a theme. And so I talk about my big four themes. We will get into the details and how to craft complimentary information. So remember a lot of students kind of really focus on the personal statement and the activity section and put a lot of effort on that. But you wanna be thinking, which is great, but you wanna be thinking about your application holistically, right? And so how do you kind of offer complimentary information to multiply your why medicine throughout your secondaries and into your interview? And then I wanna kind of wrap up with how you kind of thread that unique messaging. So we'll kind of come back to the big four themes that I find to be super important. All right, so who I am, if you are new to this channel, welcome. Thank you for joining us. My grown-up name is Dr. Josie Herbistondo. I have a PhD in writing and literature. I was a faculty member for writing at the University of Miami. I taught there for 13 years. And as part of my kind of faculty course load, I was also part of the Writing Center. And during those years in the Writing Center, I was one of the faculty members to develop curriculum for personal statement workshops. I would go into pre-med classes, pre-dental classes, pre-law classes, and talk about kind of how to craft these pieces of text for the application. So I consulted quite a bit with pre-health offices and now I'm fortunate to present for local universities on these very topics, as I've kind of now focused solely on my work with students full-time for years, actually. This is where you are right now, right? Hi, hi. This is our tiny little channel on YouTube. If you haven't subscribed, I definitely encourage you to do so. And you'll have a lot more content. I'll throw a lot of content at you today, but you'll have a lot more content in kind of more kind of zoomed in fashion in the videos that I released for Medical Dental. I have many success stories. I'm so lucky to work with students at this point all over the country. So I have students locally at FIU, at NOVA, DO. I have students at USC, Penn, Rutgers, NSU, BU Dental, Michigan. So I really have kind of students all over the place which I've been fortunate to really work with so many of you guys already. And so these are some just to kind of share, they are real people. These are just kind of some details and comments from students about working with me on strengthening their application, especially through the messaging on kind of the admissions process as a whole and kind of are working together and making a difference. And this I hear kind of every cycle, actually to be very honest, about how interviewers kind of complimented or commented on how great a certain section of the personal statement was. So yeah, I have students that I really am fortunate to learn about kind of your stories and work with you on elevating your message. And like that, I have so many other testimonials. I really am, and I'm biased, so I see that, but I really am a firm believer that your messaging is key, obviously beyond the statistics, of course, you have to have your quantitative MCAT, DAT, GPA, but how you tell your story, how you craft your message is super, super important. I'm lucky to have first gen pre-med student who has a full ride to Mayo Clinic, is currently a third year, solely based on his personal statement. I have a student this cycle with a 500 MCAT, five acceptances, nine interview invites. Another student 502, also this cycle right now that we're wrapping up, two acceptances. I've had reapplicants who did not work with me the first cycle, worked with me that second cycle, didn't change anything from their experiences, just the messaging. So just how we crafted or we reframed their personal statement, their secondaries. And then second time around, after working together, they had multiple acceptances. Canadian students in US and MD programs, a student at Pendental got a Dean scholarship. And so one of the kind of, every student is different and every student's journey to medicine or dentistry is different, but one kind of common denominator is that the goal was to make each student memorable. And so I think you do that in part through your messaging. All right, so let's get to work, yeah? So why is a personal statement important? So it establishes your why, right? And that kind of that why is what begins your application with a personal statement. And in many ways kind of wraps up your application with the interview. You want to kind of really develop your why medicine or why dentistry throughout and your messaging in your texts, in your essays is kind of how you present that in a more kind of formidable, memorable way. So beyond, like I said, the statistics, beyond the end cap, beyond DAT, beyond your GPA. This is a space and this could be amazing and liberating and this could be super scary and a paralyzing for students, but the truth is that your writing is the space that you have 100% absolute control over today, right now, right? MCAT score, you can retake, you can kind of scrape for a couple more points, a GPA, I'm not personally friends with math so I don't really understand, but somehow it is easier to kind of lower than it is to improve and it'll kind of have an upward trunk, which is great, but will it move so much in kind of a few months? Not so much, right? So the personal statement, your activities, your secondaries, those you have absolute control over today and it is your mic in hand moment. It is the kind of you speaking to the ad comms directly and it's your voice in the room. And so that's why I really, really urge students to really kind of think about in a kind of meta way, think about what they're gonna say and then also consult with the register of how they're gonna say it. What is, how is this messaging going to land? What is a subtext? And we can kind of go into a lot of that with some samples. So what are the main elements of the personal statement? Essentially it's your journey to why dentistry or your journey to why medicine, right? Awesome, but what does that mean? So it's not a creative piece, but it should have creative elements. And so you want to include anecdotes of experiences. For me, sometimes the most important ones are the patient facing ones, right? So that you show yourself in action, adapting to a patient's needs and kind of really sharing the, you in action first and then the takeaways, right? So I use the word anecdotes very, very precisely and specifically why? Because with 5,300 characters or 4,500 characters respectively, you don't have the time to start a story from the beginning, give some backstory, then this happened, then that happened, right? Anecdotes are just kind of, you plunge in to the middle of kind of the action and you give just enough information to show whatever lesson you want to kind of show and then you kind of confirm that lesson by explaining that lesson, right? Too many times students will start writing this essay and I kind of will start with working with students who have a draft, but they've really kind of focused on their why, explaining their why. So they're telling that why, right? And they don't allow themselves those kind of raw, that raw data, that kind of, that anecdotal kind of story-driven, image-driven, descriptive narrative that you should have just sprinkled in a couple here and there as if you had a camera over your shoulders, right? And so you can bring in sensorial detail, see here, taste, touch, whatever is appropriate and you can kind of bring the reader into whatever is happening and then you can kind of talk about the lesson or takeaway. So you want to kind of balance, like I said, the stories with reflection. And so you also, the personal statement doesn't happen in a vacuum, you also want to think about your activity section and how you want to deliver the content there. So with 15 slots, let's say, for MCAS, a lot of students I will see kind of use very resume-dry language. Sometimes that works and for me, and this is in my opinion, there are other professionals in the space who may advise you differently, but there are moments where I feel like, especially when there is content that the Adcom would know and I'll show you examples in a little bit but that maybe it necessitates a story so that you can kind of share it in a different way. So let's do kind of a quick structure guide before I show you the examples. In many ways, I've seen, this is a guide very loosely, because why? Because I've seen excellent essays that are four paragraphs, I've seen amazing personal statements that are nine paragraphs. So paragraph break and number of paragraphs is more kind of like what your natural break or kind of a shift in the essay topic, right? Then, oh, I need to hit five paragraphs and then it's okay. But I feel like with American education, especially, we kind of, we understand five paragraph essay, like that feels manageable to us. So we can kind of think about the five paragraph model as just kind of like a skeletal structure to kind of wrap our brains around what the personal statement can look like. The first paragraph, I would say about 70% of students that I work with will start with an opening story, an anecdote. A lot of those stories tend to be their kind of spark moment. Tend to be how they kind of came to medicine, what they kind of saw or observed. They had an illness, their grandparent had an illness. They immigrated to this country and kind of like all of a sudden access to medical care where it was more kind of remedies and herbs at home. So it's more of kind of like a passive experience like medicine came to them. And then after the story, there's kind of a thesis statement. I call it a thesis statement because of my writing background. And I will show you examples, but it's basically whether or not you have a theme, it basically anchors your kind of, so what, right? It anchors your story because you're starting with this story. This is emblematic of your why medicine or why dentistry. The opening should be something that is super, super important. It doesn't have to go chronologically. So it doesn't have to be that spark moment where you were a kid and you had an illness or you saw a grandparent pathway or something. It could be something from the last couple of years, like a very most meaningful patient experience. And then you can kind of go back in time and then go chronological if you want. But usually paragraph one starts with a story and then it anchors into kind of like why this story is kind of what's the takeaway of this story and how that is like your relationship to your why medicine, right? You're kind of introducing your why medicine in the thesis statement. And I'll show you a couple of student examples on those. Paragraph two. So sometimes the first paragraph is a story completely. And then they don't really have that anchoring statement. That anchoring statement can start paragraph two and you can kind of explain why that first story was so integral to your kind of journey. And then after that, your paragraph three, four, like the middle kind of body part of your personal statement are active kind of experiences that you have sought out. So you've decided, okay, medicine is for you. And now what have been, and these tend to be the one, the experiences that you've had in undergrad during your gap year. So the last kind of few years, right? And these are active experiences that you have actively sought out, that you have connected with patients, that you have, you know, delved into research, leadership experiences, volunteer experiences that have always your why medicine or why dentistry that have deepened your commitment to the field and to the calling. So that's kind of, that tends to be that kind of middle part. And then after each story, I tend to be someone who asks their students to kind of think about, okay, what you said this story, you spent a few sentences on the story, what is the takeaway? How do you value this experience? Don't just assume, because sometimes it's so hard and difficult and challenging to write about your story because you know it so well, right? So to convey the layered emotional kind of experiences sometimes is harder than to be kind of like a cold observer and writing like a scientific literature review or something. So, and I get that. Every time I'm kind of of the view that every time you tell a story that you kind of offer a takeaway and a lesson or reflection so that you offer, you kind of guide the reader, the adcom to say, okay, this is how I value it. So this is my experience. This is how I value that. This is how I assessed my takeaway and kind of you practice a little bit of the critical thinking and that's where you put the telling part. And so if you do that after every story that you share in your personal statement, then your wrap up could be pretty easy in the sense of like, you can land the plane. You don't have to have this grand gesture for a wide medicine or wide dentistry at the end because you've been doing that work throughout the body paragraphs. Some students come back to the opening anecdote. Some students will kind of like, you know, wrap up all of the little lessons that they kind of share throughout the body paragraphs and kind of bring that together on the bottom. Some will say something new, kind of forward future looking and kind of there are many different ways to go with a conclusion for sure. But the hard work, the real work is the body paragraphs. That is the meat and potatoes of your personal statement because that is where you have for the most part captured the experiences that you've actively pursued once you've decided that medicine or dentistry is for you. And that's where I feel like students can really stand out. All right, so as promised, these are thesis examples. I want for students to think about and not every personal statement and we'll have one and that's okay, but these also kind of serve as takeaways or lessons after a story in a body paragraph too, which is why I wanted to share them. But I wanted you to see how you want to move from essence. I am this or I'd like to help people to practice. Right? So you want to kind of be in action in the line, in the writing. And so these are a couple of examples. Number one, pursuing a career in medicine means that I will be on the front lines of community and public health. My experiences have taught me that it is only through adaptability and compassion that we're most effective in promoting wellbeing. This is telling me that adaptability and compassion are gonna be kind of central to the rest of the stories or the rest of the experiences that the personal statement's gonna share. Number two, my first generation identity and my resilience when setbacks encroach have been my best teacher for success. I aspire to become a physician to blend my community building values with medical research. Great. So then this started, and it's unfair because you're not seeing the whole essay, I know, but this started with nothing medical. The intro was very much about their first generation identity about kind of them traversing kind of intersectional identity. And then they are gonna go into community building and research as the kind of like themes or topics that they're going to delve deeper in throughout the personal statement. Then placing tremendous value on social awareness, I aspire to be dedicated to my future patient's varying needs, whether that be through traditional dental care or perhaps just a kind gesture of reassurance. So this one, they did not start with a spark moment like something the passage that happened to them. They started with a kind of being chair side and narrating kind of a dental procedure for a patient that was very, very scared in their native language, in the patient's native language. And then they put this, and then paragraph two started with when they were a child and how they kind of would talk to his grandparent about kind of like missing teeth and not having the best preventative oral healthcare when the grandparent was older, younger. So it didn't start chronologically and that's totally fine. All right, I will skip the second one because you had it already there. Okay, so let's go into the big four themes. This is how I test whether or not the personal statement whether or not the activities and the secondaries are doing its job in its kind of respective places within the application. So yes, there are 17 competencies your application will be assessed by, right? But I boil them down to four and there are some overlaps for sure but these are the four that I want you to think about that you're not gonna cover all four for the most part in your personal statement but maybe you cover two just by nature of what you are kind of the experiences that you're talking about and then you keep in the back of your mind, okay, the other two I really didn't talk about let me make sure that while I'm answering the secondary questions that I bring that in as well or that I do it in the activities section too. So the first one, cultural awareness. This is exemplified with how you invite diverse perspectives to your interactions that you adapt your worldview to create space for diverse voices and opinions. And so you want to kind of, you show this by connecting and adapting to individuals' cultural, political, economic or lived experience, right? This can happen within medical experiences and like through patient-centric moments and through growth opportunities in your own life. So I definitely see this in personal statements but I also see this in secondaries. Community engagement, super important, how you show up for others, right? That you're not just adding service hours to your CV that you're not just kind of listing mindlessly your activities in your experiences section but that you are doing your part to meeting people where they are and to remedying kind of unequity in some sort. So those are two. And then the third one is personal values. This is you. This is your story, right? There's no right answer but there are problematic ways of delivery. So the vague and cliche, I like science and helping people. This isn't bad, right? Only because it's a cliche doesn't mean it's bad. You can start here. What you don't want to do is end here. You don't want to have these phrases in your final copy of the personal statement or in a final version of a secondaries essay. So they're cliche because they are relatable and they're truths that people innately feel but you don't want to deliver them because you're lumped into so many other applicants. So you kind of want to make sure that how you're telling your story that you are being very unique, you're anchoring an experience, right? Those anecdotes and I'll show you examples but then also whenever you are asked a specific question you can be honest and this sometimes is more for like interviews and secondaries that are very, very specific on the actual topics that you're writing about. But, let's give you one second. Okay, but you want to make sure that you're not alienating kind of perspectives, right? That your responses to topics and questions are not radioactive. So you want to always side on being expansive, inclusive, diverse embracing, right? We can chant more on this. I cover a lot of this with regards to like ethical questions for interview prep but there is room to have a personal view and still not judge someone else for an opposing view, right? And it's that kind of rhetorical dance that you want to embrace when you are delivering kind of your take or your perspective. So intellectual curiosity is number four. This can be reflected through research. You don't have to have research to apply but it can be reflected through research, an academic kind of cerebral intellectual interest in a course, it doesn't have to be a pre-med course like a science course. It could be art history, a public health sociology. So I see students kind of really showcase their intellectual hunger and interest in pursuing passions beyond a class assignment and beyond kind of their course. And so this also can show growth. Sometimes intellectual curiosity can be shown when you have to talk about like a lower grade in a class or something. And it's that growth that you show in that self-assessment that is really important. So if you have a question, because I'm kind of presenting with two screens right now, I don't really see kind of the chat but I definitely want to dedicate time to Q&A if there are questions. So if you have a question by all means, put it in the chat and we'll go one by one and answer anything that you have. If you want to learn how I work with students by all means, you want to complete our application and schedule your call. I'll leave that little kind of whatever headline banner on there and then you can kind of grab that. I'll leave it for a little bit. Okay, so you want to balance those big four throughout the personal statement, activities and secondaries, right? It's cultural awareness, it's community engagement, it is personal values, it is intellectual curiosity. There are definitely overlaps and I'm gonna show you four examples. I can name one intellectual curiosity but it really also has community engagement and that's totally fine, that's perfect. But I wanna kind of show you how this is anchored in student samples. All right, so let's get into it. This one is, you're gonna very quickly see that color is my thing. This sample body paragraph is kind of identity meets culturally aware medicine. Okay, so walking down the hallway on the fifth floor of UPMC hospital while shadowing Dr. Clark, I noticed one of her elderly patients had trouble communicating. She was speaking in Pigeon English, a kind of broken English also spoken in Cameroon. With Dr. Clark's permission, I inquired in Pigeon where she was from. While Dr. Clark cared for her medically, I helped her socially connect as we chatted about her children, her life and all she missed from her home in Nigeria. I aspire to do this for all patients which is why I began learning Spanish. Soon thereafter, my shy smile turned into, hola, como estas? And when asking our Spanish speaking patients how they were, I learned that diversity is not about our differences or finding out how we are similar but rather about how we make the effort to help others feel safe and seen. This will be significant for me as a physician as I will be able to create strong bonds and comfortable interactions with my future patients and provide relationship-driven medicine. All right, so I love this, I get like attached to writing. I love this body paragraph. Usually I tell students, don't do shadowing experiences in your personal statement, capture that in your activity section. Why? Because usually a shadowing experience tends to be passive and you're seeing someone do amazing work but you're seeing the physician do that work and connect with a patient. However, in this moment, this student really had a bond and took an active participant role in patient care. And so I really, really liked the fact that we get the notice how the story, it's not like you're once upon a time this, no, no, no. We kind of, we see them walking down the hall, then we get some kind of, you know, very quick couple of sentences of description while Dr. Clark cared for her medically, I helped socially connect, right? The first draft finished that socially connect period. Then we went into, okay, but how so we can see this? Okay, we talked about her children. We talked about what she missed from home. So these are all things that we can kind of image, kind of retain in our brain and then connect better as a reader. And from there, that could have been, you know, you could have added the tech takeaway and that would have been great. But this essay, but this paragraph in particular elevates what they do with the yellow. And so soon she wants to learn how to speak Spanish, which is not her native tongue, right? So she learned Spanish speaking, she learned Spanish language, kind of medical Spanish and conversational Spanish. And then soon kind of shy smiles turned into hola como estas, that line right here. Soon thereafter, my shy smiles turned into hola como estas. That was initially something like after taking two semesters of Spanish, I was able to have short conversations with patients. Notice how one is telling what I just said and this one I can hear the phrase, I can see the shy smile, so I can see the growth in image driven narrative. And so that was beautiful because it really shows diversity in action, right? And so then they have this takeaway about how diversity is an action. It is something that you help someone kind of connect better to their care. So I thought that was really strong. All right, let me move this and then you can see the whole thing. Okay, so this is service to others. So this is a different personal statement altogether. They're all four different essays. My first patient was a 101 year old African-American woman named Jane, who to my surprise was receiving palliative care within her household in an urban Michigan city. Initially I thought that hospice was the care that patients received in a nursing home. However, realizing that care could transcend beyond a typical healthcare setting helped clarify that healing can be part of all our interactions. While physicians focused on the medical demands of Jane's condition, I offered her emotional support, arranging activities for her such as listening to music, playing games and attentively listening as she shared stories about her life. Subsequently, I was immersed in the social determinants that impact health dynamics. While growing up in Mississippi during Jim Crow, her family lacked adequate care which resulted in untreated chronic illness that led to the untimely deaths of her brothers and sisters. Jane revealed to me that every patient has the power to teach us about the human condition and therefore clarified how I view healthcare as a humanitarian connection, as it is through our interest in fostering a true relationship that we can most compassionately care for others. So here we have the student really learning about the flexible kind of iterations of hospice care, how some patients are receiving hospice care at home. We get in a very subtle way, we get how the student has really nurtured a kind of beautiful relationship with Jane, right? So much so that she listens to music with him, they play games and she shares, she's comfortable enough to share stories about her youth and about her family growing up in Mississippi. So we really get to see how this was, it goes beyond checking the box of community service or clinical hours, right? It really shows the student kind of nurturing a valuable relationship that advanced his why medicine and also clarified what care means to him. All right, number three. So this is yet another one. This will be a dentistry in case there are any pre-dents here. So this is a personal values for me. As I dove deeper into the meaning of dentistry, I began to understand dentistry unites the principles of art and science. While shadowing Dr. Ferred on a busy day, an assistant had called in sick, allowing me to jump at the opportunity to lend a hand. As I prepared the room for my patient, I heard a child cry getting louder with every step as a front desk assistant escorted the patient to the room. It was a 10 year old girl crying out of fear as she anticipated the cavity that would soon be filled. I took her to the treasure chest with the intention to put her mind at ease before the procedure. Despite her temporary smile from the princess crown she found, she was still terrified. I channeled my baking education and mimicked my abuela would explain to me each step of creating miloja, which is a dessert that she actually started with that recipe as the intro. With each detail I shared of the procedure, the little girl calmed and when the dentist arrived, she was no longer scared. A priority of mine is to create an environment where the patient has the ability to build a trustworthy relationship with the dentist, including the patient in each step of the process was vital to helping her find safety with an oral care while allowing the dentist to do her best work. So I really like this paragraph because it feels like it goes beyond the transactional of, oh, there's a young girl scared just crying at the dentist, pretty common experience. Let's go to the treasure chest. Let's find a present to entertain her. But when that doesn't work, the student really kind of digs deep into trying to best connect, trying to meet the patient where she is to best connect and kind of calm her nerves to receive the care that she is there for. So, and then, like I said, every time, and this is rule of thumb for me, every time I say something as like law, I have a student who shows me that they do it differently and then it works. So this is my law, but I'm open to kind of being undermined. After a story I always like when students share their takeaway. It offers the reader your personal valuation of the experience, right? So a priority of mine is to create an environment where the patient has the ability to build trust. So this takeaway is about that, right? It's not just about getting this little girl to stop crying. It is more than that for the student. All right, last one. So this one shows intellectual curiosity and it shows community awareness or engagement. This is medicine again. After some time at the North Bay Neuroscience Institute, I recognized that out of all the trial participants we have seen that a single one was Hispanic. Being aware of the growing presence of dementia among the local Hispanic community, I pitched the doctrine idea I had of me going out into the all Latin community where I grew up and spread awareness of our research. He explained to me that for us to be able to incorporate participants who only spoke Spanish as a principal investigator, he would need to be fluent in the language. This regulation was particularly important in dementia research as a big part of it is assessing the patient's mental states. Finding out that a whole demographic of people in need were automatically excluded from our potentially lifesaving research simply due to their ethnicity was beyond disturbing. I understood the logic behind the rule, but understanding did not eliminate this disparity. I wish I could say that such inequalities were restricted to research, but I cannot. I observed similar inequalities firsthand as a hospice volunteer. So this student really wanted to show kind of the human aspect or kind of like the emotional education that he learned through research. This particular experience in the activity section is very resume language, is very kind of like, you know, scientific. This is what I did. This is how I contributed. So this was very non-scientific, right? It drives the emotional kind of lever for the experience. And then notice the kind of takeaway about how kind of, you know, this inequity is disturbing, but also kind of like that it's not just in research. I observed similar inequalities firsthand as a hospice volunteer. That almost tees up the next paragraph, which is another kind of experience as a hospice volunteer. And it kind of goes into a different aspect of their why medicine and what is driving their why medicine. So if you wanna see full kind of, I believe I have this one up on my channel. If you wanna see full personal statements, you should also, you know, make sure to subscribe. Next week's video that I'll share on Tuesday will be a full essay. And you have a few other videos on my channel as well already there with full kind of pseudonesia. So you can see beginning, middle and end. All right, so once you draft your personal statement, you see the stories you tell there, you wanna notice kind of which big four, which themes you are using, yes, they overlap, but just to kind of get a sense of the multi-dimensional kind of message you wanna share. Then you wanna start thinking about your activities. And some students are writing the personal statement and activities at the same time, which is perfect. You wanna use for the activities that you are kind of narrating in your personal statement. Make sure you use a different example, a different story, a different patient in your activity section if you're going to share a story for that same activity, right? And then for me, I encourage students to share short anecdotes, really short, because you don't have a lot of space, especially for the 700 or 600 character for DO apps. But for experiences that are obvious in the sense of like, if I tell you tutoring for the most part, every tutoring activity that I've ever read sounds the same. I adapted the curriculum to the students' needs. I encourage them to continue to stay on top of whatever, whatever, right? So it sounds the same. So tutoring, going to the gym, even research, if you have kind of two or three research, maybe you do two of them that sounds very scientific, but then another one that sounds more like the paragraph we just read. So think about kind of how to sprinkle in short anecdotes throughout your activity section, especially for experiences where the reader, once they see what the experience is, will know basically what you did, zoom into a story, show how you contributed. At the end of the day in your activities, you want to make sure you kind of address how you made an impact or how that experience impacted you. All right, so remember, after the primary, you start strategizing and prewriting your secondaries, think about the big four, cultural awareness, community engagement, personal values, intellectual curiosity, right? You want to be answering the question that they offer you. Yes, but you want to start picking examples and kind of thinking about the messaging and the stories that you're going to use to then round out the other kind of themes that maybe you didn't flesh out as much or develop as much in your primary app. It's definitely not an exhaustive list, but it should be kind of themes and touch points that overlap that kind of bring together a well-rounded application. So questions, I will put the, if you want to learn about how I work with students, you should definitely complete my applications really short and schedule a free call. There's the link. If you have any comments or questions, let me know. I'd love to answer any of the questions that you have. Yeah. I hope this was helpful. Sometimes I can't really share kind of all the content I want to share with you guys, but that is why I love YouTube as a platform. It's just allowed me to really talk to you, my kind of viewers and my friends on YouTube on this platform on kind of different topics, right? So like, if you want to learn more about brainstorming, if you want to learn more about how to tell a story or do the transitional topic sentences, those are key to make sure that your essay as a whole sounds like one narrative and not like separate kind of different, like three separate short stories. So I have so many videos on different focuses that, you know, focus topics that I don't really cover here, but yeah. So if there are no questions, I am going to say thank you so much for joining me. Thank you for stopping by. Make sure to subscribe. And the next video I am releasing will be a full essay. You have some full essays already on the channel if you want to see some already. But if you are interested in learning more about how I work with students, definitely check out my application, schedule your free call, and we can talk about kind of your needs, what you're looking for with regards to guidance and messaging and see if we're a good fit. Thanks again for watching. Have a good one. Bye.