PIQ Tips!

Collected by : Josephine Chang

1. Make the anecdote the main theme
2. Make the story show your character
3. Maturity in failure and understanding – how did you grow
4. Show that it is an on-going process
5. Be curious – question the status quo – add to the world
6. Tell them something that is not apparent in your resume/application
7. Don’t make it a wall of text – do dialogue – different genres
8. Be unique
9. Don’t use the same words more than twice or thrice
10. Don’t use ‘I’ too much
11. Show, don’t tell – Be specific – Transitions!
12. Be informal – go ahead
13. Connect it to academic skills and achievements
14. Never start the same – not redundant