I can still feel the relentless shaking from when I found out that I was, out of over four thousand people that I was selected for an interview on the JET Program.
I don’t think I have been able to really comprehend that the Japanese government thought my application was good enough to give me a shot to plead my case in person. I though I was a complete underdog. Everyone online talks about their great degrees, honor societies, etc, and here I was. Some programmer going to a liberal arts college with a subpar GPA (3.2).
I guess I beefed up my application enough to just break through that threshold for an interview. I don’t even know how many points I got. I’m still not in safe zone. It’s still not over. I can’t get complacent. There’s still an interview to go to.
The interviews in Miami are on the 23rd, 24th, 27th, and the 28th. We were able to pick our interview dates so I picked the 27th in the morning. It’s on a Monday. I felt that by picking Monday, it’d be after that first weekend of interviews and that Monday would bring a fresh start to the whole week. So I would catch them refreshed, relaxed, and at a great state for my charm, lol.
I hear that Miami does mock lessons. I need to mentally prepare myself for that.
Ah, man. This is crazy. Gonna study my application like a boss. Need to remember what I wrote. I haven’t looked at my SOP since I sent out my application. I actually forgot I wrote some things, LOL.
Wow.
This is crazy.
I might be in Japan this April.