(no subject)
so, the evil memo is turned in. I was really actually proud of what I managed to put out. Especially since it's worth 25% of our grade. Then, yesterday, when sitting in a rhetoric review seminar, I realized that I completely messed up all of my short citations. Worth half a point each. At the end of each sentence. For 23 pages. Damn.
In other news, I'm a member of the Equal Justice Foundation so that I can hopefully get $4k for the summer if I do a public interest internship. I've been on a couple neighborhoods (we're supposed to go door to door of businesses to get donations for a charity auction, where we make most of our money) and the special contributions committee. We have to put in a minimum of 10 hours (definitely more because it's really competitive) to qualify. I've been looking into what I want to do this summer, and most of it involves judicial internships or government office positions. Which EJF doesn't fund. Damn. Of course, I didn't figure this out until I was waiting for my EJF partner in the wrong spot this morning. Damn. Damn. Damn.
So today I had a canvassing thing with another EJFer, and we were both sort of dreading it. There's something really.... indecent about going door to door to ask for money. The fact we were asking for a dinner for two didn't help. I was a girl-scout but I never sold any cookies except to family. I didn't care about the badges. I still don't. But I decided it would be good for me to get over this phobia and suck it up: NOBODY likes canvassing.
We actually had a really good time. I got along really well with my colleague and we were charming to managers and got favorable answers from everyone. And a lot of following-up to do. I'm getting better at charming strangers, even though I did sort of look like an academically disheveled hobo today. It seemed to work for me :P
In other news, I'm a member of the Equal Justice Foundation so that I can hopefully get $4k for the summer if I do a public interest internship. I've been on a couple neighborhoods (we're supposed to go door to door of businesses to get donations for a charity auction, where we make most of our money) and the special contributions committee. We have to put in a minimum of 10 hours (definitely more because it's really competitive) to qualify. I've been looking into what I want to do this summer, and most of it involves judicial internships or government office positions. Which EJF doesn't fund. Damn. Of course, I didn't figure this out until I was waiting for my EJF partner in the wrong spot this morning. Damn. Damn. Damn.
So today I had a canvassing thing with another EJFer, and we were both sort of dreading it. There's something really.... indecent about going door to door to ask for money. The fact we were asking for a dinner for two didn't help. I was a girl-scout but I never sold any cookies except to family. I didn't care about the badges. I still don't. But I decided it would be good for me to get over this phobia and suck it up: NOBODY likes canvassing.
We actually had a really good time. I got along really well with my colleague and we were charming to managers and got favorable answers from everyone. And a lot of following-up to do. I'm getting better at charming strangers, even though I did sort of look like an academically disheveled hobo today. It seemed to work for me :P