Yes, Taylor, that's right I am 15...15 days away from being done with my internship! Yowza!
I'm still trying to get those last 3 interviews in. You have no idea how many times I wish I was a Jedi Knight and could just wave my hand and say, "You will complete the interview"; instead, I'm begging and brown nosing these programs like crazy. Not as easy, or as much fun.
Besides that, I'm writing up my reports for the directory. It was hard at first, but I've gotten use to choppy, factual writing. I really have to be careful that none of my speculation or opinions of the programs get slipped into the directory and that I don't misrepresent their program. So, Yvonne has agreed to be my editor and once she checks them, I'm sending them out to the people I interviewed to make sure I got the facts straight.
Oh, and then the fun begins.
The schoolwork is kinda heavy for the end of the internship. I have 2 short papers to write, a critique of my research design, a written final report (which will be more of my general findings attached to the directory. That baby counts for something), an evaluation of the internship, and 2 more logs. it's like the finals week of summer (which, I believe, is an effect of the fall). The only difference is that 1. I have no kresge memorial library to go to and work in from the hours of 6pm-12:45am. 2. my other 11 classmates who are working on the papers and such are no where near me. There's something comforting about sitting next to someone who is working on the same project you are and you can just turn to them and a-complain "really? why, why?!" b- ask for help "Do you they want our personal opinion, or is this to be strictly quantitative?" and my personal favorite c-snap into insanity "If you really give a mouse a cookie, does he REALLY want a glass of milk? I heard rodents are lactose intolerant."
So it's really worse than finals week due to lack of familiarity and company, but it's better than finals week because it's only 1 class as opposed to 5.
PRAY:
- Again, patience with August 6th coming. It's only 16 days away, but it still feels like an eternity.
- Focus! Holy cow, it's easy for me to be distracted.
- Wisdom and sick awesome writing skills for this directory to be great.
- Worry and anxiety. Yep. there's a lot of it rooted in this directory because I could really hurt FCFC if I don't do it right. But it's also attached to my thoughts of reentry (even though I'm just 2.5 hour drive away) Miami is completely different from Cape Coral and Chatty, so it's going to be hard to go back to those places.
I am praying for you my dear! And just to make things fair, I almost bursted out laughing (by the way, bursted is not a word) a number of times while reading this entry--I'm not in an office, but my host family would think it strange :)
ReplyDeleteI love you a lot and you can do it! You've made it this far!
yeah...effect of the fall. seriously. haha actually that's what this internship has taught me...how to point out effects of the fall. there are many.