In the home stretch...

Hi Everyone!

Well the semester is really starting to come to an end. The reason I can tell is that I have SO much writing to do! I have quite a few papers due this week as well as a presentation. Luckily, it was rainy all day today so I wasn't tempted by nice weather and I was able to do a lot of reading and writing throughout the course of the day.

This week will also be another busy one. Tomorrow is the big event that I blogged about last week...the accepted masters student preview day. I'm looking forward to meeting all of you that can make it and for those of you that cannot, please send me some questions!

I will also be busy with the Penn Global Development Initiative Forum this Thursday and Friday. For more information about the forum click HERE. One of my professors, Dr. Daniel Wagner has worked to organize the forum which seeks to enhance the University as a global player in international research, policy and development as well as to illuminate the potential of research universities (such as Penn) to contribute to the Millenium Development Goals (set forth by the United Nations) - and to enable new synergies across the Penn international community of students, faculty and staff. I am really looking forward to attending a few of the panels and I will be volunteering on Friday. This is going to be a great event and I'm glad that Penn and GSE are so interested in development efforts for the international community, as those issues are of great importance to me. There will be speakers from the World Bank, UNESCO, the United Nations, as well as faculty and students from all 12 of the graduate and professional schools at Penn.

I will be sure to let everyone know how the GDI Forum goes. I hope you all have a great week!

~Lezlie