When it rains it pours
Dear JET Program Applicant,
Thank you for your recent application to the 2006 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. The JET Program Review Committee has now processed and evaluated all applications. Unfortunately, we cannot offer you an interview for this year’s program. Please be aware that the decisions made by the JET Program Review Committee are final, and there is no appeals process. We ask that you please refrain from calling or emailing our office to ask specifically why you were not selected for an interview because it is our policy not to comment on this information.
Generally speaking, the following are some of the most common reasons applicants are not selected: missing documents (such as official transcripts, proof of graduation, recommendation letters, or proof of study abroad), unofficial documents, and/or failure to meet eligibility requirements or to effectively address necessary points in statement of purpose.
We sincerely hope that our decision will in no way diminish your interest in exchange and teaching opportunities with Japan and encourage you to try again for next year’s program. If you would like to apply for the 2007 program, please visit our website at www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/JETProgram/homepage.htm in September 2006 to access the 2007 application. Carefully reviewing application instructions is very important and may improve your chances of selection in the future.
Once again, thank you for your interest in the JET Program. You will be getting a hard copy of this letter in the mail within the next few days. We wish you the best of luck as you continue in your career.
Sincerely,
JET Program Office
Embassy of Japan
There you have it. If only other things in life were as simple.
I was born in 1982, and they say this year is supposed to be lucky for me.
Luck begins with the rolling over of last year's shit and politics over to this years newly created shit and politics.
The general feeling of uselessness, losing my grip on critical faculties by telling myself that failure is relative (I know that's bullshit, yet it makes me feel better), being told to get the fuck out of my boyfriend's house, creative doldrum, the nagging guilt that I cannot be there for my father who may need a pacemaker, the nagging guilt of never bing there for my mother, the most lecture classes I've had since my freshman year of college--even if it IS ONLY THREE classes, I paid off my overdue balance at GCC with my scholarship money a month ago--and they bill me--they can't find my receipt and I no longer have mine, they want me to pay again, I need money but don't want to work, I want to experience new things but can't get my foot out the door.
It's gonna be a great year.
Knock 'em dead.
Thank you for your recent application to the 2006 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Program. The JET Program Review Committee has now processed and evaluated all applications. Unfortunately, we cannot offer you an interview for this year’s program. Please be aware that the decisions made by the JET Program Review Committee are final, and there is no appeals process. We ask that you please refrain from calling or emailing our office to ask specifically why you were not selected for an interview because it is our policy not to comment on this information.
Generally speaking, the following are some of the most common reasons applicants are not selected: missing documents (such as official transcripts, proof of graduation, recommendation letters, or proof of study abroad), unofficial documents, and/or failure to meet eligibility requirements or to effectively address necessary points in statement of purpose.
We sincerely hope that our decision will in no way diminish your interest in exchange and teaching opportunities with Japan and encourage you to try again for next year’s program. If you would like to apply for the 2007 program, please visit our website at www.us.emb-japan.go.jp/JETProgram/homepage.htm in September 2006 to access the 2007 application. Carefully reviewing application instructions is very important and may improve your chances of selection in the future.
Once again, thank you for your interest in the JET Program. You will be getting a hard copy of this letter in the mail within the next few days. We wish you the best of luck as you continue in your career.
Sincerely,
JET Program Office
Embassy of Japan
There you have it. If only other things in life were as simple.
I was born in 1982, and they say this year is supposed to be lucky for me.
Luck begins with the rolling over of last year's shit and politics over to this years newly created shit and politics.
The general feeling of uselessness, losing my grip on critical faculties by telling myself that failure is relative (I know that's bullshit, yet it makes me feel better), being told to get the fuck out of my boyfriend's house, creative doldrum, the nagging guilt that I cannot be there for my father who may need a pacemaker, the nagging guilt of never bing there for my mother, the most lecture classes I've had since my freshman year of college--even if it IS ONLY THREE classes, I paid off my overdue balance at GCC with my scholarship money a month ago--and they bill me--they can't find my receipt and I no longer have mine, they want me to pay again, I need money but don't want to work, I want to experience new things but can't get my foot out the door.
It's gonna be a great year.
Knock 'em dead.