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[Mar. 29th, 2008|06:38 pm] |
I cannot believe I am 1/3 done with graduate school. So far, it has been a great experience - albeit a challenging one. It has not been perfect, of course, and I wish I could forget Winter Quarter altogether, but I remain hopeful that Spring Quarter and this summer will make up for it.
My courses next quarter:
Student Development Theory II
Assessment in Higher Education
Lifestyle and Career Development Counseling
Continuing with Internships with Student Conduct (yay!) and with the Dean of Students (yay!)
It will be such a busy quarter, though - since I am leaving a month early, I am going to have to get a lot of my assignments and finals finished before I leave. I wish I had a longer Spring Break to prepare myself for the quarter ahead, but I trust myself that it will all get done. And I am so excited to take theory again - I really love student development theory!
I am trying to tailor my degree towards my ultimate career goals. It did not occur to me that I should be more intentional, given how competitive the job market is. My short-term career goal is to graduate in June 2009 with a 4.0 cumulative (so far, so good!), enter the field as a Resident Director (preferably somewhere in western Washington State - WWU, UPS, PLU, or UBC, even), work in that job for 2-3 years, and then try to find a job as a housing conduct officer. I really love working in conduct and crisis management, but those jobs are far and few between. I will have to wait out M.S.'s job for decades, I am sure.
Anyways, so I am now tailoring my experiences here at OSU to prepare me for the next 5 or so years of my professional career. I am minoring in a self-designed minor that will be called either Crisis Management or Campus Critical Incident Response, hopefully taking another internship in the fall helping the Housing Conduct Officer here train the housing staff in emergency response and conduct procedures, and I will probably attend the Association for Student Judicial Affairs (ASJA) conference next year instead of a Career Services conference (All GTAs get funding to attend a conference). |
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