ggg_23nov

hi everyone! like many, i also made this account solely because of the fulbright. i applied to be an ETA for south korea and i'm crossing my fingers i get it! my undergraduate was in east asian studies (technically an 'individualized major' because my school didn't have any east/asian studies major at all), i've studied korean for 3+ years and have studied abroad in south korea. i don't have any /real/ classroom teaching sort of experience but in my essay i talked about how i've had many korean friends who i've casually tutored, helped with their classwork and papers in university, etc... i would really like to go back to korea to have a real chance to be immersed this time, linguistically and culturally, especially with the mandatory year of staying with a host family. i heard that graduate students have a higher chance of being accepted so that's what concerns me most. i also love to make myself unnecessarily stressed and saw on one of the excel spreadsheets for the past few years that there were some asian studies majors who applied to the program and didn't get recommended. (i'm going to try and not think about this too much, ahaha...) i would love to hear about everyone else's backgrounds and why they applied for their chosen countries! last year the first round of notifications seemed to be announced on january 17th-ish, so if it's the same this year, maybe we'll be finding out in around a week. good luck to everyone!!!