WELL, here it is in all its glory: senior year. I handed in my final audit this week and it felt weird for a little bit. It hasn't fully settled in yet, but I'm okay with that. I've still got a lot more things to do before I graduate. (Yes, I'm able to say the "g" word now.) I know I'll be okay though and things will work out. I'm sure it'll start to settle in next semester and I'll be zig-zagging again down the halls of Morehead Hall.
I started my internship two weeks ago and it's really cool. My main project is a research project where I'm working on a survey that's going to be sent campus-wide about religion and faith on-campus and in the classroom. I'm pretty excited about it because it'll give me a taste of what doing research is all about! I've also been to three programs and a meeting of the Latin American Student Organization, which were all really eye-opening. It's definitely going to be a great experience and I can tell my supervisor's dedicated to giving me a great experience.
I'm a Peer Advisor this year for CAST again and, well, it's CAST. It's my home. I'm only there two times a week because my schedule literally doesn't leave me any room to work any other days, which is bummer. Regardless, I try to make the most out of my 11 hours in the office. The search for grad schools continues and the support I have from the people at CAST is incredible. If it weren't for them, I wouldn't be pushing myself as much as I am right now. I'm not getting much support from my folks at home about going out-of-state to go to grad school, so the support from the CAST staff means a lot to me...
I was talking to Michele yesterday and we were talking about advising (wow, okay, I sound like the biggest nerd). Well, that's what we were talking about and then she saw on my laptop about the FYE Fellowship and I was a little hesitant to do it because I feel like I have so much to do in so little time, but I think I'm going to do it. It's hard because I'm trying to balance being a student, work, my internship, searching for grad schools, studying for GREs and to add one more thing on my plate seems like a lot. I'm working really hard on everything--most importantly my school work (I'm determined to get a 4.0 this semester)--and it's exhausting. But, I know it's all going to be worth it in the end. Sure, my weekends are super lame, but I'm kind of okay with that because I know I'm giving my all to what I want in the long run.
To get back to what I was saying, I'm taking an organizational psychology class and our main assignment is creating an organization and every few weeks or so we have to talk about different aspects of our organization. For Monday, we're talking about the culture of the organization and I was talking to Liz about it a few days ago about how culture makes a difference in how people function in an organization. (I need to stop saying nerdy things!) Anyways, I was asking Michele about it because--if it isn't obvious--I love CAST's culture. You should have seen the look on her face. I don't even know how to describe it, but I think she saw something in me at that moment. It was really weird. hahaha So, she got out one of her books and gave me people's names that I could look up to learn about organizational culture and I found an article that I'm going to use on my assignment, which I'm really excited about! But yeah, it's just...moments like that make me realize Higher Ed is what I want to do. It's crazy, but I thank CAST for feeding my intellectual hunger hahahaha
So how I mentioned before, I was talking to Liz a days ago about the random higher ed talks we have and it was really cool A) because I got to see her after almost two months B) because it's Liz (duh) hahaha. I know it hasn't been that long, but I really miss the Liz and almost every time I go into work, at least one of us mention how much we miss our GIs. It's really weird just because I've kept in touch with our GIs from past years, but never to this extent. But, it's an awesome thing, so that's good. Talking to Liz this week made me feel so much better about so many things. I got to vent about a few things (haha) and just the random conversations we get into about higher ed are always so cool. (When is the nerdiness going to stop?) They really are though and I always love all the advice Liz gives me along the way...
Well, the journey shall continue. I think things will start to calm down around December. LOL Until then, ninja mode is on max.
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