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Hey All,
I hope everyone had a blessed and safe break, but now it’s time to get back to business! A lot has been going on with me. My internship has been keeping me busy since I got back. Right now, I’m putting the final touches on the financial program that I am building and I’m getting ready to launch it with a few workshops that I developed. The workshops that I developed have to do with basic money management topics (i.e. saving, credit, budgeting, etc.). I’m pretty excited about this whole thing. I mean, who can say that they actually developed, implemented and evaluated a whole program that will be used at an organization for years to come?! Not only is this a great learning experience, but it’s an amazing thing to be able to put on my resume!
Speaking of resumes, I need to get mine together because I graduate in a little less than 4 months! Wow, where does the time go?! Everyone told me these two years would fly by and they weren’t kidding. I’m kind of scared about entering the real world…..I’ve been a professional student all my life, with nice spring, summer and winter breaks and tons of help from mommy and daddy. That’s all about to end and I’m gonna have to start doing grown up stuff! Booooooo! So, while I’m excited to get my degree, I’m very nervous and anxious about how things are going to change and God knows, I DO NOT want to start paying back those college loans. Just thinking about it makes me want to vomit! But you know what, I’m gonna pray and trust in God that I’ll get an amazing job that I love, that pays an amazing salary and has great benefits, so that I’ll be able to take care of everything I need to take care of, while living comfortably……and I pray for that in that in the name of Jesus! :-)
As far as classes go, I’m really feeling my schedule this semester. My professors seem cool and the class requirements aren’t too much to handle.
Oh yeah, as I remember back to two years ago, this was around the time I applied to UMB, so I assume many of your are in the process as well and should be getting your acceptance letters in the mail (got mine mid February). Like I’ve said before, if I can give you any advice, it would be to please take the personal statement seriously. TAKE YOUR TIME! This is all they have to really get to know you, your aspirations, and what you bring to the table.
So with that said, I wish you all many, many blessings!
Just wanted to say that I hope you all are having a safe holiday season!
See you in 2010!
Hey All,
I think I spoke too soon last time…things are definitely getting stressful. It seems like all I’ve been doing for the past month has been going to field and doing school work. A social life? Ha! I guess that’ll just have to wait until May. But hey, that’s the life of a Grad student…and it’ll pay off in the long run.
I have so many deadlines coming up I don’t know where to start. And I swear all my teachers have been getting together behind my back and plotting to have things due on the same day……..or maybe I’m just being a little paranoid! But seriously, this second year is definitely kicking my butt.
In other news, I just registered for classes for the spring and I gotta tell ya, the options seem so limited. It’s already hard enough that you’re in field three days a week so you really don’t have many days and times open to take classes. And to make matters worse, it seems like there aren’t that many options for MACO students, it seemed as though every class was a clinical class. Nevertheless, I made it work out and got the classes that I needed.
I’m definitely seeing the light at the end of the tunnel, so May 2010….hurry up and get here!!!
Hey everyone,
It’s been a minute so I just thought I’d drop in and let ya’ll know what’s been going on. First and foremost, all that confusion with my internship was finally sorted out! The people in the SWCOS office had been working really hard to resolve all the issues that kept coming up, so I definitely have to thank them. But anyway, I was placed at Carroll County Community Action Agency in Westminster, and besides the looooooong drive, I’m really liking it. There are a lot of little activities that I will be involved in over the course of the year, but the biggest project I have this semester is creating a program built around economic success. So pretty much, I have to come up with programs that will help people become more financially aware, stable, and self sufficient. It’s kind of overwhelming, but I’m definitely up to the challenge.
I’ve also had to get used to being in field three days a week as opposed to the two days that you have to be there in your foundation year. Believe it or not, that one day makes a huge difference because that’s one less day that you have to work on school work or get other little things done and anyone who knows me knows that my time management skills are sorry. So, this has been a huge adjustment, but since my classes have been moving rather slowly, it hasn’t been too much of a problem…………..yet. Hopefully the remainder of the semester goes smoothly.
Until next time…………..
Hey All!!
Let me first welcome back my fellow returning peers and secondly, welcome all you newcomers to the program! I can’t believe it’s September and classes are back in session. I swear it feels like I just finished spring semester a couple weeks ago! But anyway, the time has come and after a much needed break, I’m ready to finish up these last few classes and be done with school!
As far as classes go, I’ll be taking Program Management, Community Organization and another research class. I decided to fit all these classes on Monday because I have field on Tues-Thurs and I don’t do Friday classes because that’s my chill day. And speaking of field, I just want to let everyone know, I’m VERY irritated! Field starts on 9/8, and as of 9/6 I still don’t have one locked down. There was a big mix up with my field coordinator a few months ago which resulted in my field application being suspended. Long story short, I had to contact my coordinator, who gave me a lot of unnecessary attitude before referring me to the SWCOS office. Since contacting them, there has been even more confusion and I keep getting the run around, but I am supposed to meet with them again on Tuesday, so hopefully everything will be settled by the end of this week. So, I’m sorry I don’t have anything to tell you about my exciting internship, because I don’t frickin’ have one!
Now that I got that off my chest, I want to again welcome everyone back to school and wish you all a blessed and amazing year and as soon as I find out about my placement, I’ll share it with ya’ll!
Later
Hey, hey, hey!!
Oh my goodness, it’s so been sooooo long since I wrote. Don’t be mad, I’m not being lazy nor am I slacking on ya’ll, I just have a crazy life. I finally have a free day so let me bring ya’ll up to speed:
-The exams from this last semester were probably the hardest I’ve ever taken
-I’ve been having very expensive on going car problems (which is great, being that I’m a broke college student and all)
-I’m in the process of moving out of Baltimore to the DC area (which really doesn’t seem smart anymore, with all these car problems I’ve been having!)
-I also just got a job that’s been keeping me real busy
-My sister moved to PA from FL, so since she’s a lot closer, I’ve had to chill with her
So you see, folks, I’ve been crazy busy lately. But to top all of this off, I’ still don’t have my placement for next year! Unfortunately, the place that I wanted to go was unavailable, so needless to say, I’m very frustrated that as of July, I still have no clue where I’ll be. I’m also kind of worried because there weren’t that many MACO options for a placement anyway and I haven’t even been referred anywhere!!!
By the way, I just wanted to thanks all of you who leave me comments. If you ask me questions and I don’t get back to you right away, I promise I’m not ignoring you, I’m just busy and don’t check my email often, but I DO reply to all questions. So again, thanks for reading!
Hey Guys!!!
I know I’ve been M.I.A. for quite awhile, but I have good reasons: I’ve been crazy busy with school, and to top it off, I was so sick, I had to be hospitalized. I’m still a little under the weather, but definitely not as miserable as I had been feeling. So, I just registered for classes early this morning, and even though I really didn’t want to, I registered for summer classes! I really wanted to just sit back and relax, but I’m sure come next school year, I’ll be happy I went. Over the summer, I’ll be taking Psychopathology (online) and Family Therapy on Mondays and Wednesdays. In the fall, I’m taking some research class (ugh!), Community Organization, Program Management, plus go to field three days a week. I’m already dreading it! I’m so happy classes will be over in a few weeks and I only have a few more days of field left. I’m so over this school year that it’s not even funny, but it’s usually like that for me. I’m fine the whole school year, and then around the last month and half, I just can’t take it. It is just me, or do the last few weeks seem to go the slowest?!
Anyway, I’m about to go write my last process recording for the school year (YAY!!)
Later!
Hey All,
I just realized that this time last year, I got my acceptance letter from UMB. So just wanted to say congrats and welcome to those of you who have made it in!!
I just got back from my internship and have a few free moments,so I figured I'd let you all know what's been going on. I had a great time back in VA with my family and friends, and as expected, those two weeks flew by! Internships started back last monday, and to say it was difficult going back would be a total understatement. Over the break, I slept until noon, got up and ate, and went back to sleep, so having to get up at 8am this past week has been torture! Luckily, classes don't start for another week. Again, I'll be taking field and the practice course that goes with that, Human Behavior II with Peter Smith (he's the best!!), Social work and the Law with Julie Drake, and Research methods for Management and Community practice (at least I think that's what it's called) with Hopkins.
Field applications are due on the 1st of February and surprisingly, it's been pretty stressful for me trying to choose where I want to be. Last year it was easy: I turned in my resume, wrote and little narrative and they placed me somewhere. This year however, I'm having to research different places and ask around to try to find the place that suits me the best. It's really important to me because I don't want to end up at a place where I have lame supervisors (my supervisors this year are the absolute best!), or where I'm not learning anything, or a place I hate, because I don't want to be miserable for a year. This is also the time when you have to decide your specialization and concentration. I've decided on Social Action and Community Development and MACO. There aren't a whole lot of internship options for this, as compared to Clinical, but there are some pretty good listings.
Well that's pretty much what is going on now....Later!
P.S. I know this is about the time that people are starting to turn in applications for next fall and I just wanted to wish you all many blessings in the application process. And if I don't give you any other advice, I just want to stress the importance of the personal statement. Please, please, please take your time, put alot of thought and effort into it, and have several people read over it and give you opinions. Out of all the components of the application, the personal statement was definitely the thing I stressed over the most, which was probably a good thing. So again, I wish you many, many blessings in the process!!
So, I finally finished my first semester of grad school a couple of days ago, and as you can imagine, I'm elated! The first part of the semester fooled me into thinking grad school is a piece of cake; but these last few weeks were very stressful. But as you can see, I made it through. I'm looking forward to these next couple of weeks to relax and chill with my family.
I hope you all have a safe and blessed holiday and I'll see in in '09!
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