You won't be able to describe everything about. Instead, you must decide which details about you are important, bearing in mind the role that your personal statment is going to play in defining your research interests in this course. The following guide breaks the process down into steps. You will also be given some time to complete the early stages of the process in your first class, and will have the opportunity to ask questions then. You will have a much easier time with this assignment if you think about what you are being asked to do before you begin.
Many people are uncomfortable writing about themselves.
By recognizing what it is that you are being asked to do, it will be easier both to narrow your focus and to keep the assignment within the suggested limits. This is really a prewriting, or planning, step. It first requires that you think about what topic you would like to research. This will probably be a difficult decision since you haven't really done any work for the course yet, so you'll have to define a broad area of interest. Or you might want to learn more about an area within your specialization that you haven't yet studied, or conduct research in an area you would like to work in some say.