Better than Ever
I've just received by second grad school rejection. I'd say I'll use this as motivation to show U of A and U of T what fools they were, but I honestly don't think, in a couple months, I'll care enough about them rejecting me. I know that I can make global health / public health and development issues the rest of my career and/or life. It's going to happen with or without the proper education.
I suppose I should feel more positive about the success I've had with FAST. Tomorrow, I'm going to Atlanta to launch FAST's first project at the SCAA, and I've been doing interviews with the media about it this week. With FAST, I've written reports on technology and development cited/used by the World Bank, and a half-dozen other large NGOs.
The problem is that I just don't care about trade that much, and I'm having a harder and harder time convincing journalists and funding organizations that it's worth caring about.
What will I do? Well, after my next rejection (SFU) is out of the way, I'll start reducing my hours with FAST, first using my vacation time, then reducing my contract. With my new time outside of the office, I'll start my own work on a project that I think would be a good idea, a project I wanted to develop in a context where I could better understand issues of global health. I'll also enroll for some more classes at Athabasca. Come September, I'll make my applications at European schools, which generally do rolling-admissions starting in September. If that doesn't pan out, I start planning my next round of undergrad, maybe a whole new degree.
Boy, I really thought that having some publications under my belt, references from two tenured professors (one a university president, the other in charge of admissions at his graduate department) and a senior individual in the World Bank, several years of international work experience, several years of academic work experience, and one metric buttload of motivation would've been worth something to them.
Guess not. You'd better bet I'm bitter, buster.
Originally published at Mangocado.
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I suppose I should feel more positive about the success I've had with FAST. Tomorrow, I'm going to Atlanta to launch FAST's first project at the SCAA, and I've been doing interviews with the media about it this week. With FAST, I've written reports on technology and development cited/used by the World Bank, and a half-dozen other large NGOs.
The problem is that I just don't care about trade that much, and I'm having a harder and harder time convincing journalists and funding organizations that it's worth caring about.
What will I do? Well, after my next rejection (SFU) is out of the way, I'll start reducing my hours with FAST, first using my vacation time, then reducing my contract. With my new time outside of the office, I'll start my own work on a project that I think would be a good idea, a project I wanted to develop in a context where I could better understand issues of global health. I'll also enroll for some more classes at Athabasca. Come September, I'll make my applications at European schools, which generally do rolling-admissions starting in September. If that doesn't pan out, I start planning my next round of undergrad, maybe a whole new degree.
Boy, I really thought that having some publications under my belt, references from two tenured professors (one a university president, the other in charge of admissions at his graduate department) and a senior individual in the World Bank, several years of international work experience, several years of academic work experience, and one metric buttload of motivation would've been worth something to them.
Guess not. You'd better bet I'm bitter, buster.
Originally published at Mangocado.
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