I hate working on these scholarship applications.You see, there are 3 big things I'm applying for this fall:1. Study in UK: I'm applying for Rhodes, Marshall, and Gates scholarships, which would put me at one of three top-tier UK universities for international relations.2. JET program: Teaching English in Japan. Paid by Japanese government. This is really what I wanna do.3. Law school: This is really what I wanna do after JET.
The complication here is that the deadlines for the UK stuff are all coming up way fast, which require not only essays and recs out the wazoo, but even research proposals. I have to write about what I'd spend two years of my life. My research topic, already ready to go, despite a complete unfamiliarity with the material and theory of IR, much less my complete lack of formal research training. This makes it really hard to keep moving. I'd quit, except that everyone's got me convinced that the scholarship application process "builds character" - and by that they mean it makes applications for stuff like law school and JET go a bit more smoothly.Sigh.
The complication here is that the deadlines for the UK stuff are all coming up way fast, which require not only essays and recs out the wazoo, but even research proposals. I have to write about what I'd spend two years of my life. My research topic, already ready to go, despite a complete unfamiliarity with the material and theory of IR, much less my complete lack of formal research training. This makes it really hard to keep moving. I'd quit, except that everyone's got me convinced that the scholarship application process "builds character" - and by that they mean it makes applications for stuff like law school and JET go a bit more smoothly.Sigh.