Basic Baggage Principle
Whichever carousel you stand near, your baggage will arrive on another one.

Seeing the current spree in writing of Statement of Purposes in preparation for application work, here is my tribute to the apping community.
Presenting to you
The Letter of (Self) Recommendation


I am glad to acknowledge the merits of Mr. ABC. I have known him for more than one and a half year and that period was sufficient for me to gauge his research potential and abilities. He has taken two of my courses, the Networking with Carrier Pigeons and Data Communication with Bird Calls. He has also undertaken a project under me involving a research on Tap Dance Communication.

ABC also has excellent communication and oral skills. I have always seen him maintaining an excellent rapport with female community of the department. He has excellent argumentative skills and easily convinces a person to a particular result, however silly it sounds. He also has mastered the art of secret communication, whereby, during examinations, he spreads the answers to everybody without any of the invigilators noticing it.

He has excellent research and analysis capabilities. He has the innate ability to gather materials from various papers and materials to prepare for a research paper. He has also undertaken a course on Research Paper Metamorphosis in order to publish good research papers. Working along with him, I have managed to put two papers in a very short period of time.

ABC is a very helpful, creative and friendly person. In classes which I had instructed, for example, he always politely signalled the end of the class by scratching his footwear on the ground. He also has the nack of sleeping without the instructor knowing that he is. I am also thankful to ABC for introducing me to the gaming world. He has lent me many games which help me pass the time whenever I feel bored.

I recommend him to your graduate program in ___________________ with full financial assistance ship. If you have any doubts about his academic and otherqualities, please dont hesitate to contact me.



Well, I thats it for now...
See you next week

PB: That part about the professor being introduced to the gaming world is partly true. I actually gave to one of my recommenders, Unreal Tournament game. He is very fascinated by it, and thanks me for it everytime I see him. He said that he needed some games because he was feeling bored with academics. In fact, whenever I go to his office, he is playing that game. An interesting thing was that, he wanted this game (actually some game) as a sort of maamool (bribe) for giving an open recommendation letter (which he did). So now, everybody is happy.