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This article is written by a student writer from the Her Campus at Geneseo chapter.

Did you know that men will, on average, apply for something once they meet 60% of the qualifications, but women wait until they meet 100% of the qualifications before they apply? This is usually explained away by people saying that women should just be more confident. However, that’s a really male-centric way of looking at it. Women aren’t confident enough to apply for jobs they’re unqualified for, meanwhile men are confident enough to apply despite being unqualified? That basically just says that men have higher self-esteem and women should just be more like men.

 

    That’s ridiculous, and it should make you mad! Realistically, people don’t apply for things they are unqualified for because it seems like a waste of time and energy to apply for something you probably won’t get. I hope you’re mad because I want you to take that anger and turn it into energy. Use all of that energy to apply for everything that you can get an application for. That scholarship that you think too many people are applying for? Apply for that! That internship that you aren’t totally qualified for? Apply for that! That award that you don’t think you deserve? You guessed it, apply for that!  

 

Apply for anything and everything because there are only three outcomes. You get the thing or you don’t get the thing are the first two outcomes. The third outcome is that you get the thing and end up turning it down for some reason. In two of those outcomes you get the thing!

 

    Now that you have turned your anger into energy, go out and apply, apply and apply some more. Somewhere out there is a man who is not totally qualified who is also applying for the thing you want, so why shouldn’t you also apply? Seriously, click away from this article right now and get started!

 

 

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Hannah Fahy

Geneseo '20

Hannah Fahy is a junior English secondary education major at SUNY Geneseo. She is very involved on campus as the secretary of Circus Club and a general member of Musical Theater Club. She is also the social media coordinator of the Geneseo Her Campus chapter! She is an aspiring unicyclist who enjoys reading, donating blood, and knitting. She is always learning a new skill because she believes that you should never stop learning.
Jessica Bansbach

Geneseo '20

Jessica Bansbach is a junior psychology major who has more campus club memberships than fingers and toes. In her spare time, if she's forgotten that she's a college student that has more pressing matters to attend to (like, say, studying), she enjoys video games, thrift shopping, and ruminating. She was elected "funniest in group" by her summer camp counselor when she was nine and has since spent the next eleven years trying to live up to the impossible weight of that title.