I may have to resort to this...
"BEHIND ON THAT research project? Here’s an idea: Set deadlines and pledge to donate money to charity if you miss them. Better yet, a charity you detest.
Mari Brick, for example, wants to work 10 hours a week on a paper she must finish in order to earn a master’s in social policy at the State University of New York - a challenge, because she also has two kids and a full-time job. Through the website stickK.com, cofounded by two Yale professors and a Yale management-school student, Brick committed herself to donating $50 to the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation in any week she fails to meet her goal." - Read the Brainiac blog at http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/03/self-shaming.html
I am getting close to getting all my grad school applications done, just need to write the statement of purpose for Penn State and the essays for Pittsburgh. Taking the GRE on May 2nd so wish me luck! After that's done, I just need the professors to turn in the recommendations by November and cross my fingers and hope. I'm applying for the Fall 2010 semester so I won't know if I'm accepted for a little while. Also, I have to schedule my FSOT test (to enter the foreign service) for June and hope that it goes well. I feel like the pieces are slowly falling into place.
Mari Brick, for example, wants to work 10 hours a week on a paper she must finish in order to earn a master’s in social policy at the State University of New York - a challenge, because she also has two kids and a full-time job. Through the website stickK.com, cofounded by two Yale professors and a Yale management-school student, Brick committed herself to donating $50 to the George W. Bush Presidential Library Foundation in any week she fails to meet her goal." - Read the Brainiac blog at http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/brainiac/2009/03/self-shaming.html
I am getting close to getting all my grad school applications done, just need to write the statement of purpose for Penn State and the essays for Pittsburgh. Taking the GRE on May 2nd so wish me luck! After that's done, I just need the professors to turn in the recommendations by November and cross my fingers and hope. I'm applying for the Fall 2010 semester so I won't know if I'm accepted for a little while. Also, I have to schedule my FSOT test (to enter the foreign service) for June and hope that it goes well. I feel like the pieces are slowly falling into place.