Real Conversations From This Year (Paraphrased)
"Will you tutor everyday instead of three days a week, even though it means rushing to class afterwards?"
"Okay"
"Will you take on a full-time job in the 20 hours a week the university allows you to work here?"
"Sure"
"Will you, in addition to the 2-3 hour a week internship for which you are not even getting credit this quarter, help me start a speech and debate club? remember, it will be more work than just being there at lunch time once a week because you will basically be in charge of the club!"
"Of course!"
In all my free time, i have agreed to help start a speech and debate club at emerson junior high. We're gonna meet once a week at lunch. If anybody has any ideas about what I can do with these kids, please let me know. The teacher I work with is calling it "your club". Awesome. I SO have time for this.
I blame my mother, by the way. She does this kind of thing (overcommitting herself/inability to say 'no' to more responsibility in organizations to which she is already committed) all the time. I think it is genetic.
If I get into Teach for America, this is either what is going to make me an awesome Corps member, or what is going to run me completely ragged and kill me.
"Okay"
"Will you take on a full-time job in the 20 hours a week the university allows you to work here?"
"Sure"
"Will you, in addition to the 2-3 hour a week internship for which you are not even getting credit this quarter, help me start a speech and debate club? remember, it will be more work than just being there at lunch time once a week because you will basically be in charge of the club!"
"Of course!"
In all my free time, i have agreed to help start a speech and debate club at emerson junior high. We're gonna meet once a week at lunch. If anybody has any ideas about what I can do with these kids, please let me know. The teacher I work with is calling it "your club". Awesome. I SO have time for this.
I blame my mother, by the way. She does this kind of thing (overcommitting herself/inability to say 'no' to more responsibility in organizations to which she is already committed) all the time. I think it is genetic.
If I get into Teach for America, this is either what is going to make me an awesome Corps member, or what is going to run me completely ragged and kill me.