Today, I made some progress. I worked on my expanded resume for UT Austin, looked at more colleges and programs, and spent some time doing miscellaneous Readathon stuff. (Now that we actually have a concrete date for presentations, I'll be able to plan ahead accordingly with that!)
For my thesis project, I did some snooping around on the SeeYourImpact website and apparently, there's an option for you to start your own fundraiser for Pratham independent of the Readathon. I'm thinking that I could probably just do that for the rest of the year; at least that would resolve the issue of the Readathon ending next month and leaving me with nothing much to do. I still have to talk to Vineeta about it, but if she approves of this idea I'll set up that fundraiser after October 31st as well as figure out something else to do with Pratham. The online fundraiser will be on the side.
I also crossed the $2,000 mark on my fundraiser! I'm so excited! The $250 matching donation was added to my total this morning, so now I'm at $2,013. I also have several checks that have yet to be deposited as well as a few other donors lined up. I'm really glad that this fundraiser is going so well. I honestly didn't expect to make it this far when I started fundraising in July :D
In terms of college apps, I figured out exactly how to format the expanded resume for UT - by using a table! The formatting was seriously bothering me so much that I just quit and didn't come back to it until after I went to my other resume and looked again to see how they figured out a way to make everything so perfectly aligned. That was when I realized they did all of it in a table but just made the borders invisible. Now I've tried it with this UT resume and - yay! - it works. So I worked on that for a bit. (Wow, it's going to be a really long resume...)
I also looked into the McDermott Scholars program at UT Dallas and at the University of Pittsburgh as another school I might apply to.
For my thesis project, I did some snooping around on the SeeYourImpact website and apparently, there's an option for you to start your own fundraiser for Pratham independent of the Readathon. I'm thinking that I could probably just do that for the rest of the year; at least that would resolve the issue of the Readathon ending next month and leaving me with nothing much to do. I still have to talk to Vineeta about it, but if she approves of this idea I'll set up that fundraiser after October 31st as well as figure out something else to do with Pratham. The online fundraiser will be on the side.
I also crossed the $2,000 mark on my fundraiser! I'm so excited! The $250 matching donation was added to my total this morning, so now I'm at $2,013. I also have several checks that have yet to be deposited as well as a few other donors lined up. I'm really glad that this fundraiser is going so well. I honestly didn't expect to make it this far when I started fundraising in July :D
In terms of college apps, I figured out exactly how to format the expanded resume for UT - by using a table! The formatting was seriously bothering me so much that I just quit and didn't come back to it until after I went to my other resume and looked again to see how they figured out a way to make everything so perfectly aligned. That was when I realized they did all of it in a table but just made the borders invisible. Now I've tried it with this UT resume and - yay! - it works. So I worked on that for a bit. (Wow, it's going to be a really long resume...)
I also looked into the McDermott Scholars program at UT Dallas and at the University of Pittsburgh as another school I might apply to.
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