What Specifically Can I Do To Become Professionalized?

Personal Development

Personal development involves undertaking activities and fulfilling responsibilities which expand your life experience and help you to become a mature, knowledgeable, ethical person. In one sense or another, everything that can be considered professional development is also part of your personal development. But in addition to the activities described throughout this web site, other, more simple activities can also be part of your personal development: consistently reading daily newspapers, magazines of substance, or alternative news sources; reading fiction; pursuing hobbies and other extracurricular interests (rock-climbing, photography, dance, sports, travel, writing - anything fulfilling that makes you a more worldly person); attending university and city-wide academic, cultural, and other events. Admissions committees often look for something interesting that sets one applicant apart from another. At least as important, if not more so, is that activities of this sort are simply a fulfilling part of your educational process and your ongoing experience as a life-long learner.