Things pick up before they get a chance to slow down
Remember how I thought life would get easier with the start of the semester? HA! Jokes on me!
It's all in a good way: 3 days before we "graduated" from the internship, all the interns had to give presentations based on their experiential portion of the summer. This was to a group of employees, including some fairly up-there sort of people. I managed to impress all the right people, to the point where the HR division and my particular office spent the last 2 days scrambling to find a way to get me back. My work over the summer was only noticed and appreciated by my immediate office, but that 10 minute presentation really got people's attention. Ironically, I shudder over public speaking.
But the good news has led to a lot of scrambling and rearranging and spazzing and chaos. I'm a girl who likes to plan ahead. While I can be flexible, and obviously this is all great for a career move, it is highly stressful for a calendar-filling, list-making, check-marking sort of person. Not to a neurotic level, mind. Just, a few sleeping awful, eating badly kind of days since Friday.
Classes are ... intense! I'm taking two 400-level courses (highest at Undergrad stage) and two 300-level courses, all of which are somehow writing-intensive - I know. I'm an English major, so I shouldn't have expected anything else. But with the caveat that "I'm not an easy grader" that every professor is throwing out there, it's only adding to my aaaaahhhhh!!! level. I'm also taking a "class" where I put in 10-15 hours/week of internship in exchange for 3 credits. The workload of the internship is easier, but the timing factor is a pain, for all that it is more flexible. How do I find myself in these situations? Right, it'll look good on a resume. I'm looking forward to the internship because it's in Public Relations, which sounds like a dynamic, interesting and exciting field. Let's see how I feel 3 months from now.
AND, unfortunately this means my bestie's visit won't happen, since I can't take time off right after I get the job. Bugger! All that planning and wishing and needing a mental break by way of hanging out with each other, down the drain!
So time to focus on the positives: I've got plenty of support on the home front from my parents. I will have a paying job in a couple of weeks (after years!). There will be no break in my health insurance. I will be entering the work-field in a profession I am interested in pursuing. I'm doing an internship in another field I am interested in. I will graduate in December!
My sanity might be taking a minor beating right now, but it will be worth it in the long run.
OH! I almost forgot ... I have been wanting to start a Writers Workshop through my local public library. It would be geared towards adults and amateur or unexposed writers who could use some feedback, basic editing help, and brainstorming. If this was available in your area, would you join in?
It's all in a good way: 3 days before we "graduated" from the internship, all the interns had to give presentations based on their experiential portion of the summer. This was to a group of employees, including some fairly up-there sort of people. I managed to impress all the right people, to the point where the HR division and my particular office spent the last 2 days scrambling to find a way to get me back. My work over the summer was only noticed and appreciated by my immediate office, but that 10 minute presentation really got people's attention. Ironically, I shudder over public speaking.
But the good news has led to a lot of scrambling and rearranging and spazzing and chaos. I'm a girl who likes to plan ahead. While I can be flexible, and obviously this is all great for a career move, it is highly stressful for a calendar-filling, list-making, check-marking sort of person. Not to a neurotic level, mind. Just, a few sleeping awful, eating badly kind of days since Friday.
Classes are ... intense! I'm taking two 400-level courses (highest at Undergrad stage) and two 300-level courses, all of which are somehow writing-intensive - I know. I'm an English major, so I shouldn't have expected anything else. But with the caveat that "I'm not an easy grader" that every professor is throwing out there, it's only adding to my aaaaahhhhh!!! level. I'm also taking a "class" where I put in 10-15 hours/week of internship in exchange for 3 credits. The workload of the internship is easier, but the timing factor is a pain, for all that it is more flexible. How do I find myself in these situations? Right, it'll look good on a resume. I'm looking forward to the internship because it's in Public Relations, which sounds like a dynamic, interesting and exciting field. Let's see how I feel 3 months from now.
AND, unfortunately this means my bestie's visit won't happen, since I can't take time off right after I get the job. Bugger! All that planning and wishing and needing a mental break by way of hanging out with each other, down the drain!
So time to focus on the positives: I've got plenty of support on the home front from my parents. I will have a paying job in a couple of weeks (after years!). There will be no break in my health insurance. I will be entering the work-field in a profession I am interested in pursuing. I'm doing an internship in another field I am interested in. I will graduate in December!
My sanity might be taking a minor beating right now, but it will be worth it in the long run.
OH! I almost forgot ... I have been wanting to start a Writers Workshop through my local public library. It would be geared towards adults and amateur or unexposed writers who could use some feedback, basic editing help, and brainstorming. If this was available in your area, would you join in?