Research is to me what peanut butter is to jelly

Writing personal statements as part of graduate school applications (and as part of anything) has got to be the worst thing to do ever. It’s supposed to be the one thing that sets me apart from hoards of other applicants, yet all I can come up with is cliched nonsense. “I want to go to grad school because I love research. I love research soooo much. Research is my life. I live, breathe, and eat research. Please accept me. I really am so into research. If research was a guy, I’d marry it, even though I think marriage is crazy sometimes.”