Afghanistan Update

Where I will not be this summer.

I didn't get ANY of the three fellowships I applied for, so it looks like I will not be heading to Kabul this summer after all...

I could not possibly express how disappointed I am. I was really looking forward to this experience, not to mention the fact that my degree depended on pulling off this project. It was going to be an amazing project, too! And I was really looking forward to living with and mentoring the Afghan students, as well as telling their stories.

Now I guess I'll have to come up with some stupid thesis topic and do that instead. Which I have absolutely no interest in, and therefore no motivation to do it. Basically, I'm putting off graduating by a semester for nothing now, without this project.

Also there goes my "experience living and working in a developing country" that I was hoping to leverage into a job next fall.