“What the world really needs is more love and less paperwork.”

Pearl Bailey, thank you for your timeless quote. And seriously, that is what the world needs.

After attending the Opportunities Fund meeting this afternoon and meeting with Education Abroad and printing out all the forms and applications, I am surprised at how there will actually be trees standing at Black Rock on Saturday.

Don't get me wrong- the meeting was very informative and actually cleared up many questions I had about obtaining money for (hopefully) my study abroad over the Winter semester. And clarifying the trip at the Education Abroad office made applying to the program seem like less of a hassle ( By the way- everyone at the foreign language department and education abroad department at Hunter is truly sweet and kind, and definitely willing to answer your questions, no matter how repetitive and stupid they [the questions] might seem). But as with anything, now I, and everyone else applying for winter study abroad, have to face application after application for both the opportunity fund request deadline and for the program application deadline. Yay. I can just feel the stress piling on.