The home interview, cross posted to the GDB Lounge email group
Hi guys.
I promised I’d tell you about the interview. Here’s some backstory first:
Next fall (meaning Fall 2009,) I’m going to Indiana to start some student teaching. I’ll be there Monday/Thursday and then back in Illinois on Fridays. I’m looking into getting a Trekker for this transition. Also, I’ll be going to Indiana with five or six people from my major and living at a school for the blind. In the spring, I’ll be living either in my home town or in Jacksonville, Illinois and working at Illinois School for the Visually Impaired.
Ok. Now on to the interview. For those of you who don’t know, GDB has revamped the interview process. They have a lot of paperwork now. There are a ton of questions. Lauren said there were three pages of questions about the applicant’s vision alone. Some of the questions are kind of redundant. I told her that I had been deposed before and knew about the same question asked ten different ways tactic.
After the paperwork was finished, I went out for my walk. Of course, I sucked. I veered a lot while crossing streets, and it didn’t help that my town was under complete construction and orn up everywhere, and all of the students on my campus were heading off for spring break.
I walked with her ambassador dog back to the coffee shop where we had started the interview.
She suggested that maybe I should wait until after I graduate (May of 2010) to get a dog because of all of the transitioning I’m going to be doing. I didn’t like that though, and here’s why: As I stated in the backstory, I’’m going to be moving with other people and possibly having a gps. I’m going to have a very strong support system around me for this transition. If I waited until I graduate, I’ll be making a huge transition on my own. I plan on leaving Illinois when I graduate, and I might have to learn a new city alone. I figure that having a dog in the transition where I have more support might be better with regard to stress and the ultimate success of the team.
I explained all of this to Lauren, and I think she understands where I’m coming from. I think her concerns are completely valid and justified, and I completely respect her opinion. Lauren’s one who tells me what I need to hear, not what I want, and I respect her all the more for that. On that same token, when she understood what I was explaining to her and said she’d relay that to the review board, I completely trust her to do that.
So now, the waiting game begins. I don’t know when the review board meets again, but Lauren said it could be a few weeks before I hear their decision. I’ve never been more anxious about anything in my life.
I’d appreciate any thoughts and opinions you all have. Sorry for the length of the email, but I wanted to be thorough.
Thanks.
Tif
I promised I’d tell you about the interview. Here’s some backstory first:
Next fall (meaning Fall 2009,) I’m going to Indiana to start some student teaching. I’ll be there Monday/Thursday and then back in Illinois on Fridays. I’m looking into getting a Trekker for this transition. Also, I’ll be going to Indiana with five or six people from my major and living at a school for the blind. In the spring, I’ll be living either in my home town or in Jacksonville, Illinois and working at Illinois School for the Visually Impaired.
Ok. Now on to the interview. For those of you who don’t know, GDB has revamped the interview process. They have a lot of paperwork now. There are a ton of questions. Lauren said there were three pages of questions about the applicant’s vision alone. Some of the questions are kind of redundant. I told her that I had been deposed before and knew about the same question asked ten different ways tactic.
After the paperwork was finished, I went out for my walk. Of course, I sucked. I veered a lot while crossing streets, and it didn’t help that my town was under complete construction and orn up everywhere, and all of the students on my campus were heading off for spring break.
I walked with her ambassador dog back to the coffee shop where we had started the interview.
She suggested that maybe I should wait until after I graduate (May of 2010) to get a dog because of all of the transitioning I’m going to be doing. I didn’t like that though, and here’s why: As I stated in the backstory, I’’m going to be moving with other people and possibly having a gps. I’m going to have a very strong support system around me for this transition. If I waited until I graduate, I’ll be making a huge transition on my own. I plan on leaving Illinois when I graduate, and I might have to learn a new city alone. I figure that having a dog in the transition where I have more support might be better with regard to stress and the ultimate success of the team.
I explained all of this to Lauren, and I think she understands where I’m coming from. I think her concerns are completely valid and justified, and I completely respect her opinion. Lauren’s one who tells me what I need to hear, not what I want, and I respect her all the more for that. On that same token, when she understood what I was explaining to her and said she’d relay that to the review board, I completely trust her to do that.
So now, the waiting game begins. I don’t know when the review board meets again, but Lauren said it could be a few weeks before I hear their decision. I’ve never been more anxious about anything in my life.
I’d appreciate any thoughts and opinions you all have. Sorry for the length of the email, but I wanted to be thorough.
Thanks.
Tif