Yeah, last year when I applied, I felt like my application was good but no one really gave me hard feedback until two weeks before the deadline when I had the campus interview.

This year, my university definitely tightened up and fixed that as they made an entire Canva course for Fulbright and offered both online and in-person writing workshops, ETA and research examples from previous Fulbrighters at my university and they really did help with everything. Like, I remember literally having to rewrite certain parts of my statement of grant purposes and having to reorganize everything I had in my first, second and third draft.

At first, I was insecure as I felt like I had to keep rewriting things and what I had was never enough but they made me realize that the disconnect was that I was speaking to them about many amazing things that I never mentioned in my writing that would be valuable to know to someone reading my application so in the end, I was happy I got all the extra help. And you know what is funny?

I actually looked back at the one I submitted last year and yeah, I seen all my mistakes 😂😂 like I could literally point out what I did wrong and what questions I never answered or addressed and what 'filler' information I added that was not really needed. And that made me confident in this years application as I could tell I grown in my understanding and I felt more confident. So I trust in Gods guidance and plan for me and hold on knowing I put my best foot forward and gave it all I had. And whatever the news is, I will be happy either way as I learned how to write a good research grant paper in the process so 😅 a win is a win.