Candidate #0000 - Post 11
69 days until graduation.
Olympics Medal Count:
Austria – 19 medals (hopefully 20 soon, if Benni Raich has a good second run in the Slalom)
Last DVD I bought:
RENT
It’s Saturday and I’m exhausted. Last night, one of our Hall Directors had his weekend program – a Drag Show. It was awesome! I had so much fun! Afterwards, a couple of the other grads and I went out for a bit – not too long – but when I got back, I just wasn’t tired yet, so I went on a little road trip to Walmart to finally get the RENT DVD. I’ve wanted to buy it for the past couple days (since it came out), but just hadn’t gotten around to it. And then that I had bought it, I had to watch it, of course. I mean, what do you expect? So I was up half the night and now I’m exhausted. Today will be a busy day though: one of my CAs is having a program, then we have staff development and I need to write two papers. So much for a nice relaxing weekend!
This week has been crazy busy on the job-search front. After I finally filled out some online applications and mailed a couple of resumes, I got a couple more interviews for ACPA. I also have a phone interview for Monday. The person called me as I was walking to a meeting. I was totally out of breath and seriously confused. So I just threw my bag down (in the snow), hectically searched for my planner and at the same time tried to sound totally calm and professional. After I scheduled the interview, I couldn’t stop smiling for an hour.
The smile faded though as the interview has been coming closer. I printed out a lot of information about the institution and their ResLife department and I keep reading through it whenever I have a free second. I want to be well prepared for the interview. I just didn’t expect an interview already…the plan was to prepare over Spring Break, so that I’d be ready for ACPA. I don’t even really know what I’ll do to prepare – it’s more just getting mentally ready to be interviewed – but now it’s on Monday and I just don’t feel ready. I don’t know if I’ll ever feel ready. I’m not a big fan of interviewing. I say “ummm” and “well” a lot, my accent comes out more and I sound like a total idiot, at least that’s how it feels. When we did the Mock Interviews a couple of weeks ago, I got a lot of positive feedback. But that was different because it was people I knew and especially people who knew me. I’m not so sure about the first impression I make. I know I can do these jobs and I know I’m a good candidate because I’m a very hard worker, dedicated and absolutely in love with working in ResLife. But how do you express that in an interview without sounding stupid?
Oh, I need to stop talking or I’ll make myself even more nervous. So back to the good news: lots of interviews scheduled for ACPA (maybe a few too many, as most people think…but I’ve always preferred rather too many than too few), already a phone interview for Monday and waiting to hear from a bunch of other schools that have told me they received my materials and would be reviewing them soon.
Olympics Medal Count:
Austria – 19 medals (hopefully 20 soon, if Benni Raich has a good second run in the Slalom)
Last DVD I bought:
RENT
It’s Saturday and I’m exhausted. Last night, one of our Hall Directors had his weekend program – a Drag Show. It was awesome! I had so much fun! Afterwards, a couple of the other grads and I went out for a bit – not too long – but when I got back, I just wasn’t tired yet, so I went on a little road trip to Walmart to finally get the RENT DVD. I’ve wanted to buy it for the past couple days (since it came out), but just hadn’t gotten around to it. And then that I had bought it, I had to watch it, of course. I mean, what do you expect? So I was up half the night and now I’m exhausted. Today will be a busy day though: one of my CAs is having a program, then we have staff development and I need to write two papers. So much for a nice relaxing weekend!
This week has been crazy busy on the job-search front. After I finally filled out some online applications and mailed a couple of resumes, I got a couple more interviews for ACPA. I also have a phone interview for Monday. The person called me as I was walking to a meeting. I was totally out of breath and seriously confused. So I just threw my bag down (in the snow), hectically searched for my planner and at the same time tried to sound totally calm and professional. After I scheduled the interview, I couldn’t stop smiling for an hour.
The smile faded though as the interview has been coming closer. I printed out a lot of information about the institution and their ResLife department and I keep reading through it whenever I have a free second. I want to be well prepared for the interview. I just didn’t expect an interview already…the plan was to prepare over Spring Break, so that I’d be ready for ACPA. I don’t even really know what I’ll do to prepare – it’s more just getting mentally ready to be interviewed – but now it’s on Monday and I just don’t feel ready. I don’t know if I’ll ever feel ready. I’m not a big fan of interviewing. I say “ummm” and “well” a lot, my accent comes out more and I sound like a total idiot, at least that’s how it feels. When we did the Mock Interviews a couple of weeks ago, I got a lot of positive feedback. But that was different because it was people I knew and especially people who knew me. I’m not so sure about the first impression I make. I know I can do these jobs and I know I’m a good candidate because I’m a very hard worker, dedicated and absolutely in love with working in ResLife. But how do you express that in an interview without sounding stupid?
Oh, I need to stop talking or I’ll make myself even more nervous. So back to the good news: lots of interviews scheduled for ACPA (maybe a few too many, as most people think…but I’ve always preferred rather too many than too few), already a phone interview for Monday and waiting to hear from a bunch of other schools that have told me they received my materials and would be reviewing them soon.
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