Candidate #0000 - Post 13
60 days until graduation.
Sound that fills my apartment:
Silence (except the sound of me typing, the noise my refrigerator makes and occasionally the sound of a car driving by)
“Project” I’m working on:
Making Thank-You cards. (Can you use Thank-You cards that you made yourself? At first, I thought that’d be a really cute idea, but now I’m not so sure anymore. Maybe I should just buy a set of really nice cards.)
It’s Monday, but just not any Monday – Monday, the first day of Spring Break. I love breaks: sleeping-in, watching TV, reading a good book just for the fun of it and not because you have to write a paper about it the next day, more sleeping-in.
We had the interview days for our graduate program on Friday. I was hanging out there all day, helping out and just soaking up the atmosphere. The whole time, I kept thinking: That’ll be me in just two weeks – dressed all professionally, sweating and being nervous, trying so hard to impress everyone. I can feel butterflies in my stomach when I just think about placement. My hands start shaking too. If I’m like that now, I don’t even want to think what I’ll be like when I’m actually at the conference.
Besides worrying about the interview and being nervous, here’s the other thing I’ve been thinking about: There is a couple of schools I sent my application materials to and I haven’t heard from them yet. I know, this is really stupid, but I just can’t help wondering why I didn’t hear from them. I mean, there’s other schools who send me e-mails to ask me to interview with them, but I’m not good enough for these schools? It’s really stupid to even think about this, because my interview schedule is more than full and I’ll be going crazy at placement. But I can’t help it. I just keep wondering why they didn’t respond? Sometimes I tell myself, maybe they just didn’t get around to contacting everyone to set up interviews. But then again, ACPA is in less than two weeks! Then I tell myself that maybe they just had way too many applicants and I wasn’t the most qualified one. That doesn’t really help my self-confidence either. Argh, I just need to stop thinking about this.
Alright, I didn’t even have breakfast yet and it’s almost noon. I should probably get going. But before I do, let me tell you briefly about my plans for break (I figured, if I write it down, I’m more likely to actually do it): catch up on some homework (there’s a few assignments I need to do) AND (and this is the important part) prepare for the ACPA Conference by making cheat sheets about the institutions I’m interviewing with and reviewing their job descriptions in detail.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that I'll actually be productive this break.
Sound that fills my apartment:
Silence (except the sound of me typing, the noise my refrigerator makes and occasionally the sound of a car driving by)
“Project” I’m working on:
Making Thank-You cards. (Can you use Thank-You cards that you made yourself? At first, I thought that’d be a really cute idea, but now I’m not so sure anymore. Maybe I should just buy a set of really nice cards.)
It’s Monday, but just not any Monday – Monday, the first day of Spring Break. I love breaks: sleeping-in, watching TV, reading a good book just for the fun of it and not because you have to write a paper about it the next day, more sleeping-in.
We had the interview days for our graduate program on Friday. I was hanging out there all day, helping out and just soaking up the atmosphere. The whole time, I kept thinking: That’ll be me in just two weeks – dressed all professionally, sweating and being nervous, trying so hard to impress everyone. I can feel butterflies in my stomach when I just think about placement. My hands start shaking too. If I’m like that now, I don’t even want to think what I’ll be like when I’m actually at the conference.
Besides worrying about the interview and being nervous, here’s the other thing I’ve been thinking about: There is a couple of schools I sent my application materials to and I haven’t heard from them yet. I know, this is really stupid, but I just can’t help wondering why I didn’t hear from them. I mean, there’s other schools who send me e-mails to ask me to interview with them, but I’m not good enough for these schools? It’s really stupid to even think about this, because my interview schedule is more than full and I’ll be going crazy at placement. But I can’t help it. I just keep wondering why they didn’t respond? Sometimes I tell myself, maybe they just didn’t get around to contacting everyone to set up interviews. But then again, ACPA is in less than two weeks! Then I tell myself that maybe they just had way too many applicants and I wasn’t the most qualified one. That doesn’t really help my self-confidence either. Argh, I just need to stop thinking about this.
Alright, I didn’t even have breakfast yet and it’s almost noon. I should probably get going. But before I do, let me tell you briefly about my plans for break (I figured, if I write it down, I’m more likely to actually do it): catch up on some homework (there’s a few assignments I need to do) AND (and this is the important part) prepare for the ACPA Conference by making cheat sheets about the institutions I’m interviewing with and reviewing their job descriptions in detail.
Let's keep our fingers crossed that I'll actually be productive this break.
posted by StudentAffairs.com at 11:47 AM
2 Comments:
Don't feel bad... I've been wondering the same thing about those institutions that haven't gotten back to me!
I'll be at ACPA, and I'm pretty darn nervous, too. So you're not in this all alone!
-Brian
Grad Student at Indiana Univ. of Pennsylvania
Thanks, Brian.
Good Luck to you! :)
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