Summer at Doane- First Day on the Job

So, I will be on campus over the summer, working with the Marketing Department. It's nice, because working for them also doubles as my journalism internship, so it's kind of a 'two birds with one stone' situation. However, this means I get to live in Smith hall, sans air conditioning...so far it hasn't been too bad, though, so hopefully it stays pretty cool.

I actually started my job today. I'm there now, in fact...it's been fine so far. I haven't had a whole lot to do (just writing and sending out some press releases), but I'm sure it'll pick up some once there's more people here (three of them are gone today). I'm pretty optimistic, even though I've never had a full-time job before.

Ah yes, I'm also working another job, which will be 8 hours a week, so all in all I'll be working around 48 hours a week. Not too bad, but still more than I'm used to. I guess we'll see how it all turns out.

Finals week so far

It's that time again- finals!! Who doesn't love finals?! Well...a lot of people, I'd guess. Especially me. However, it does mean free finals snacks at Tiger Inn (I think they have them every day this week- you should go check them out!). I only have on 'official' exam this week, and one take-home exam, but then I have lots of lovely papers. I'm working on an 8-page paper today, and another 8-page paper tomorrow. And I did a 5-page paper in Spanish yesterday. Good times, I tell ya.
In any case, you should leave me a comment about what all you have to do this week!

Cinco de Mayo

For the past couple years, at least (I'm not sure how long before that), Doane has had a Cinco de Mayo celebration. This year, however, I didn't hear of anything going on as far as school sponsored activities. Do you think the multicultural office is doing its job, if the only things we seem to celebrate are Black History Month and maybe one other holiday? Leave a comment and let me know!

Finals Week

So, with finals being next week, I have cut down on updating my blog. Unfortunate, yes. However, it's been somewhat necessary with my workload. So, this post is going to be reader-based. Sometime this week I will be doing an audio story about what students do to prepare for finals and not get too stressed. So that is my question to you! It'd be great if you left me a comment and let me know what all you do to stay calm and prepared for finals week. Thanks, guys!