<p>Is being artistic and creative still an issue?</p>
<p>I mean, I've done some of that in my essay, but I notice in my personal statement I have a heavy emphasis on ideas and I use past experiences as fleeting rhetorical devices. Which also probably gives away the fact that I don't really have any experience in real empirical research, just lots of theoretical investigations...</p>
<p>Trying to get oriented here after being out of it for a while. Thanks.</p>
<p>(any readers? thanks.)</p>