Lots of things happened since my last blog post. Nothing that has been especially life-changing, but I have definitely been keeping busy. I am currently waiting to hear back about a lot of interview at ACPA. I did 6 interviews while there, and it was pretty exhausting. People always would say to me to make sure that I keep in mind how good of a fit the school would be for me while in the interview, and that I am interviewing them as much as they are interviewing me. I never thought all of that was bogus, but it never really hit me how true that is until now. None of my interviews were particularly bad (from where I was sitting, anyway; I imagine the people interviewing me could have a differing opinion), but there was definitely one or two interviews that I left thinking that maybe that place isn't for me. However, all of the other places were schools that I could really see myself. I don't want to put too many details here, but hopefully something comes of my time spent there.
Other than that, I went to a few sessions. I tried to vary the kinds of sessions that I went to because I do not know where I am going to be a month from now. One of the sessions I went to really got me thinking. There was a session I went to on having senior year experience classes for graduating seniors as a requirement. This was something that I had never thought of before as explicitly as it was laid out in the session. I have talked about how we are preparing people for the "real world" after graduation, but not really in terms of how to buy a car, how to rent an apartment, and how to pay your bills on time. When I really thought about it, none of those things were really anything I had experience with until grad school. Sure, I paid some bills, but I didn't buy a car or lease an apartment until grad school, and when I did do those things, I was really scared because no one ever talks about that--they're things people... just do. The major problem we discussed in the session was figuring out whose responsibility it would be on campus to develop something like that. Even now, I am struggling to think of who would take something like that one. It is also really tough when you think about someone even wanting to take it on unless they got more people and money for it.
As I said, lots of things happened in the last week, and I learned a lot. Hopefully I won't have to wait too much longer to hear something back!
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