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September 10, 2008
I'm Back!
Oh my! It's amazing how time flies. It seems like only last month I sat down to write my massive tome on housing at UofM...and here we are, in another fall semester! Classes have started. Everyone who was seeking housing and considering schools last spring has decided, moved, and commenced their graduate careers. How exciting!
I know it may seem a bit nerdy, but I've been a little excited about starting school. Okay, that's more than a bit nerdy. That's flat-out nerd-tastic. Still, as short as summer seems to have been, I got to do a lot with my four months off. In one of my last posts (last April) I wrote about all the projects I wanted to do this summer, and how that conflicted with pressure to do a full-time internship. I was waiting to hear back from the Ypsilanti District Library and wrote that I'd "keep you posted on how this pans out." Well, better late than never!
In the end, I got the internship. I've been working with a few people at the library all summer, and now I'm starting a right-proper for-credit internship! So, let this be a testament to the power of doing things your own way. As is my lot in life, I did not accomplish everything I'd set out to do ("Lofty" is a word I'd use to describe many of my goals), but I did get to work on a lot of them, including: rejuvenation of a student-led online information resource, getting a dialog started between a local business and local youth center for future fundraising, reading a book of my choice (I read several, in fact), learning a number of new software programs, etc. In my usual non-committal way I had three part-time jobs instead of a full-time gig. But I get to have my cake and eat it, too.
By completign two semesters of part-time internships here in Ypsilanti, I get to become better acquainted with the entire library. I will spend time in a number of departments, at different braches, even. Also, I get to move on from learning the job to combining the two in a few different programming adventures come spring. And when I graduate and begin my job search, I'll have a network of employers with my name fresh on their lips. That's about as win-win as it gets in my world.
So welcome to September, everyone. This is the beginning of the coaster ride, where we're moving slow, but faster than we're used to, and the anticipation is building. Should be a fun ride.
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