spring planning.

So I have an interview for an internship on Friday and I got a call from a craigslist job I applied to to set up an interview for a PR internship :) So far so good!
Now I am planning my classes for the spring. If I get an internship, it will be for class credit so I will only have to take 3 other classes. Im thinking of taking mostly night classes, which will probably be awful, having 3 hours of class straight, especially if one of them has to be bio :( The good thing about it will be having tuesday, thursday, and friday completely free, and also the days of mon and wed free. This will allow me to work in the days. Its just going to be tough getting through the night classes...
Ill write about the interviews later!
Wish me luck!
Hay

Just a recap.

Thursday was the first night in a long time all of my girlfriends got together and went out at night. We met up after I got out of work and went into faneuil hall. There were a group of 10 of us that all lived on the same floor 1st semester of sophomore year, before we all went abroad our seperate ways. Most of us now live in apartments, in the North End, West End, Beacon Hill, Comm ave... one commutes from home, and one is an Resident Assistant. We are all still close, although we do not see eachother every single day like we used to, we still have those nights where we can all go out togehter and it is just like old times...

Friday night I went home and visited some old friends from URI. I went to my friends sorority social, which was sponsered by Red Bull. Its crazy how different our schools are. There about 100 other girls there, and she knew every single one. She was trying to explain the whole big/litte/ rush and pledging thing to me, but it went right over my head. Being in a sorority is such a big commitment, I don't think I could ever find the time to do it between my 2 jobs, admissions, and the annual fund but it does sound like a lot of fun. We have a couple of sororities here, but they are more about community service and I just read in the Suffolk Journal that a new frat is starting here next year, which will be a chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon.

I am now also searching for internships. I have been using Craigs List and the website called erecruiting I got from career services. No luck so far, but ill keep ya posted.

Saturday morning I jumped on the Train from providence and got to admissions by 10 for the students with students info session, which is always my favorite event. We get to talk to an audience (which of course I love as a PR major) about specific topics and answer any questions they may have. We then split up and take groups on tours.

After that my old roomate from Australia came up to visit. A few of my friends from Wheelock who I met there came to visit too. I also died my hair, as you can see. Another life lesson, don't dye your hair from a box. Especially when the box says darkest brown. It will often come out black.

Yesterday was advising... usually you are given an advisor freshman year depending on your major and you have them for 4 years. Most students are required to take a freshman seminar, I took SLAMEDDD which was sex, love,addiction,marriage...etc. Sometimes that professor is your advisor. In the communications building, you can usually see any of the advisors, but I usually choose to see the same one every time. I like to get to know them and check in whenever I have to. I also used the same advisor to email and help me when I was abroad and to register for classes. I have now been to advising about 5 times, so i know the routine pretty well. This time, my advisor started off our convo by saying "Wow your getting up there, almost done huh?" Ahhhh scary. I only have 5 required classes left and the rest electives. There is a good chance I could end up in Madrid in the fall, if all goes according to plan, and I can also only take 3 classes next semester and have an internship for class credit. Life and classes at Suffolk really change once you hit Jr year. There is so much more freedom and so many more interesting classes you can take for fun, not because you have to, once you get done with all of those gen-ed classes.

Today is my PR midterm. Wish me luck! Have to run to class.

More later

Hay

Just a thought...

You ever just stop and think "how did I get here" or " What decisions in my life have lead me to where I am now?" I think its called the Butterfly Effect... when one tiny decision can change the rest of your life. Well maybe its not exactly what butterfly effect is, but its close enough.
For example, (And this is a big decision, not something small i guess) I almost went into school for communicative disorders or occupational therapy. So different from PR, that's for sure...which means I would not have come to Suffolk, maybe not have lived in Boston, had my own apartment, met all of my friends, maybe not have gone abroad...but I would have had completely different experiences. A random thought, but I was just thinking about it this weekend. I feel like I am getting older so fast and 2 decades later, I think I am at a good point in life to analyze my life so far. A bit cheesy maybe, but maybe there are some things I wish I had done differently, different friends I wish I had stayed in contact with, decisions or fights I could have undone. Not that I regret things in my life, because there is no point in regretting something you can't fix. Just something to think about for the next 2 decades of my life. I think a person can change completely in a couple years, especially during high school- college. I figure that people don't really know who they are or what they want in life until college and perhaps everyone goes through their own stage of "Identity Crisis." Not that I think I want to change my life or anything, but maybe just ad some more meaning to it. I am still interested in PR, just not sure what this major will lead to. Its not a definite job out of school, and I think that is starting to worry me a little bit. There is no definite standard salary pay, like if you were going to be a physical therapist or doctor, but I guess its just a risk I have to take. Besides, if I end up going to grad school, I may re-evaluate my choices again and decide if I want to change any of my paths at all.
Different than my usual blog post, maybe its the rainy weather, gloomy days can sometime bring deep thought I suppose :)
Tour time.
Hay

raining :(

Wednesday. Its miserable out. My walk from the North End in the rain... well lets just say I am soaked. Only 2 more days until the long weekend. Busy day today. Working, advertising, design lab, science lab, gym.. This past weekend was fun, went out to that karaoke place Limelight on Thursday. Here are some pics

Friday was my friends 22nd birthday party. The rest of the weekend was pretty laid back. Got to see my mom on Sunday and then went to my sisters apt. near Northeastern to cook dinner and watch desperate housewives :)

Not sure what I am going to do this weekend. I feel like everyone is going home for the first time this semester since its a long weekend. I have a lot of projects coming up that I should probably start. And the Sox have the playoffs game on Sunday.

I can't believe I have already lived in my apartment for over 2 months. Time is already flyinnnn

I need to find an internship. I went to Career services earlier this summer but I didn't end up getting one because of my class schedule. I definitely need a paid internship in order to be able to pay for my apartment, but most of those places require at least 15 hours a week, which with class and admissions, I just couldn't fit. Maybe for the Spring. Going to get a jump start on looking for the Spring and hope I can arrange a class schedule around the internship. Wish me luck!

More later,

Hay

Brrrr, October.

Its getting cold. And I hate it. Flip Flops were probably a bad choice, but I just don't want to let go of summer yet. Besides, with the way our weather works it will probably be like 75 degrees tomorrow...
Currently in the admissions office, blogging, and entering students from my tour yesterday into the computer system. I heard through the grapevine that Ben Affleck was back shooting in the North End today (where I live.) Maybe I'll try to scope him out later. Supposedly its him and Blake Lively from Gossip Girl. Last week my friend ran into Kevin James (King of Queens, Mall Cop), who I love, in the Boston Commons. He was shooting his new movie Zoo Keeper.
Finished another ad for my design lab class. We had to do an ad for "bolt Bus" that gets people from Boston to NY for one dollar. Here is what I came up with... currently working on a poster for a band's upcoming show. I'll post it once I'm finished.

Tonight we are all going out for my friend Allison's 21st birthday. We are going to Limelight, a kareoke place on Tremont street. We all went last year for her birthday and it was so fun. (picture on right is my friend Geralyn and I singing, I think it was Kelly Clarkson) All of my friends are now starting to turn 21. Its so weird, I remember being young and counting the years till I turned 21 and it seemed to far away. Just think, it was almost 10 years ago since elementary school. Thats a decade.It just does not seem like it was THAT long ago. My friend Dayna is turning 22 and having a party at her place in Brighton this weekend. (She goes to Wheelock) She was telling me that its kind of depressing because she has no other big birthdays to look forward to. Everyone hypes up 21st birthdays so much, that it seems kind of anti-climatic. Especially a year later, whats so exciting about 22 and up? Makes me think I never want to graduate college. So glad I am only a Junior this year, (sorry Nicole, Beckee, Kristin, Matt...) I don't want to think about having to search and apply for real jobs just yet...For now I am happy working in Admissions. I also work for the Annual fund now too, calling alumni to talk to them and ask for donations. Its a tough job, just because you are on the phone for 3 hours straight, and a lot of it is ringing. But I have met some fun new people so far so thats a plus!
Anddd we got new Ambassador jackets today! Other than that not too much happening. Last night was the Meal N' Reel movie series. It happens every Wednesday night where we put on a movie not on dvd yet and have free food. Last night was Public enemies and Tacos. Last week was Transformers 2 and wings I think. Put on by Program Council of course ;)
Thats all for now,
Hay