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Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Writing a Fulbright is just soooooo much fun.....
Insert sarcasm *here*.

Sooooo.......

Reasons to hate the Fulbright application process:

  1. Your "CV"--a single page of typed text covering your life story, why going to a far away country is important to your psyche, and why the hell these people should give you a large amount of money to follow your bliss.
  2. Your "Project Proposal"--2 pages of typed text explaining what you want to do, how you're going to do it, how this will benefit your career, how it will benefit future generations, and again why the hell these people should give you a large amount of money to follow your bliss.
  3. You'll spend a large part of your fall semester writing the damn thing, getting recommendations, putting together recordings, getting letters of affiliation, etc., and more than likely they'll come back and say, "No thanks."
And while I know that it's absolutely necessary to jump through all of the hoops, it'd be infinitely better to just be able to say, "Hi....my name is Mac. I REALLY like Irish music. Please give me a big pile of money?"

Peace, Love, and Tunes,

Mac.
 
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