Staying in a two room suite dorm called Willkie and working at the Wright food court after classes was my campus environment. Across from Willkie was the education building and the business building from Willkie was pretty far across campus near 10th across from the library. Walking to classes everyday and eating at the food court became second nature.
Studying diligently and determined to get homework and tests completed with combined note taking became a way of life for a handful of years. The Union had a theater, bowling alley, hotel rooms, food, and more where even studying areas are commonly used. The Law building to the left of the building and Kirkwood Street straight ahead one block and filled with pizza and sandwich shops, along with art, music, and bike stores.
Doing nothing was not an option on campus. There was movies playing, hot food served, parties, homework, group work, tests coming up, questions unanswered in in lectures, like what would be on the tests, career goals, getting to know your teachers, classmates, roommates, gym, sports, weekend plans, schedules to make, networking, and work.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Monday, January 24, 2011
Indiana University Student Memoir
Dad doesn't think that he spent his investment on my education wisely. I ask my parents today how they feel about that and they feel bad that I don't have a job and that it isn't my fault because the economy is bad meaning alot of people are out of jobs and even hundreds of more jobs being closed. 20,000 post offices in Illinois will be closed and a lot of people will be laid off by March.
There is a marketing assistant job posting at the hospital mom says so to apply to this job. The sooner the better since it was just posted five days ago. Since I last wrote I've applied to customer service retail companies online that provide many questionaires/surveys. The whole process takes up to 45 minutes. The only time I have left today since 2003 has been used up for one trip to Florida, a year of rent, and some small gifts and cards.
Fortunately my parents have a strong relationship and have been able to get through the unemployment patches that involved a year of unemployment benefits, and some chores here and there. While I was on campus in 2001-03 Bloomington full of opportunities has offered career tools such as colorful development course that required sitting in one business meeting and interviewing our choice of job staff and manager. There were also computer self and skill assessment tests and books that offers information for job placements, internship preparation, and what best fits our mold of interests.
Have I taken advantage of the business degree? Where the sky is the limit I've learned you can go anywhere with a business degree. This is not a sales or recruitment blog only a memoir. It wasn't easy coming home after living on campus but I was able to know what was the best choice for me by being given the opportunity to study on a campus environment. Let me tell you that the extremes of change can be unsettling for the first year. Having to adapt to no adult supervision or constant parenting a campus lifestyle took time getting used to.
Mom gave me the calling card, dad gave me the money to go out, and I got a job at the cafeteria serving homestyle chicken and potatoes with other students. It was a blast having a manager who was another student and a very enthusiastic personality as I changed the empty pans with chicken and filled the salad bar for each semester. Meeting other students fields of study was always intriguing to me until I met Kloi Malko who was studying accounting. We sat side by side on the cash register swiping student meal point cards on the weekends and talked about cute guys.
When we started going to Kirkwood St. the two of us made our way into the hippest night clubs on campus! I feel that the campus study hard, turn in your homework, and past the tests circuit rewarded us with the night life of "Can you Handle It?" And with time everything I've mentioned became like clockwork. There was economics, urban society, biology, microeconomics, and never enough art classes. Gally a theater major asked me to try a play rehearsal and I chickened out before I could even know what stage fright was.
I was one to scurry to my classes on time, finish my boyfriends homework and mine so that we can go out on the town. But all my boyfriend in college wanted to do was sleep till noon and eat all afternoon to party at night. How his grades were better than mine, I could not understand. He could pass a test with A's and B's. One thing I could do better was write papers, and so I wrote a couple of his papers too. His favorite thing to do was hang out with his dorm room buddies and play football on the field. I liked to watch after a bike ride.
The weather was so nice in the fall but in the winter you could freeze to death or get reallly God forsaken ill from walking in the freaking cold class to class. My best friend Jen studied special education and became a teacher right out of college. She has been teaching special ed ever since and now has a husband and a daughter. My boyfriend and I parted ways and he now has a little girl he named after his favorite baseball fields street Addison. And although I haven't kept in contact much with them we all spent every waking hour together outside of class partying like there was no tomorrow.
Getting to class the next day was clockwork. My cd player was filled with the latest U2 and Rolling Stone CD's while my bike and purse were stolen, and I got a ticket for underage drinking, I managed to take up belly dancing class,journaling, and writing for the campus newspaper doing articles on special events. Roughing it in classes, dozing, daydreaming, and zoning in and out of consciousness wasn't uncommon. Some of the classes were not meant to be passed like the one with probability and chance formulas. This one instructor who was very pretty would help us to write out outlines word for word and tell us what was on the test. Thank God for her.
I thought I would relax after college but it only gets worse with out continuing your education in my opinion. What I learned from college is to hold on tight to your achievements there because people will ask you for the rest of your life what did you get out of college? And what good was it?
There is a marketing assistant job posting at the hospital mom says so to apply to this job. The sooner the better since it was just posted five days ago. Since I last wrote I've applied to customer service retail companies online that provide many questionaires/surveys. The whole process takes up to 45 minutes. The only time I have left today since 2003 has been used up for one trip to Florida, a year of rent, and some small gifts and cards.
Fortunately my parents have a strong relationship and have been able to get through the unemployment patches that involved a year of unemployment benefits, and some chores here and there. While I was on campus in 2001-03 Bloomington full of opportunities has offered career tools such as colorful development course that required sitting in one business meeting and interviewing our choice of job staff and manager. There were also computer self and skill assessment tests and books that offers information for job placements, internship preparation, and what best fits our mold of interests.
Have I taken advantage of the business degree? Where the sky is the limit I've learned you can go anywhere with a business degree. This is not a sales or recruitment blog only a memoir. It wasn't easy coming home after living on campus but I was able to know what was the best choice for me by being given the opportunity to study on a campus environment. Let me tell you that the extremes of change can be unsettling for the first year. Having to adapt to no adult supervision or constant parenting a campus lifestyle took time getting used to.
Mom gave me the calling card, dad gave me the money to go out, and I got a job at the cafeteria serving homestyle chicken and potatoes with other students. It was a blast having a manager who was another student and a very enthusiastic personality as I changed the empty pans with chicken and filled the salad bar for each semester. Meeting other students fields of study was always intriguing to me until I met Kloi Malko who was studying accounting. We sat side by side on the cash register swiping student meal point cards on the weekends and talked about cute guys.
When we started going to Kirkwood St. the two of us made our way into the hippest night clubs on campus! I feel that the campus study hard, turn in your homework, and past the tests circuit rewarded us with the night life of "Can you Handle It?" And with time everything I've mentioned became like clockwork. There was economics, urban society, biology, microeconomics, and never enough art classes. Gally a theater major asked me to try a play rehearsal and I chickened out before I could even know what stage fright was.
I was one to scurry to my classes on time, finish my boyfriends homework and mine so that we can go out on the town. But all my boyfriend in college wanted to do was sleep till noon and eat all afternoon to party at night. How his grades were better than mine, I could not understand. He could pass a test with A's and B's. One thing I could do better was write papers, and so I wrote a couple of his papers too. His favorite thing to do was hang out with his dorm room buddies and play football on the field. I liked to watch after a bike ride.
The weather was so nice in the fall but in the winter you could freeze to death or get reallly God forsaken ill from walking in the freaking cold class to class. My best friend Jen studied special education and became a teacher right out of college. She has been teaching special ed ever since and now has a husband and a daughter. My boyfriend and I parted ways and he now has a little girl he named after his favorite baseball fields street Addison. And although I haven't kept in contact much with them we all spent every waking hour together outside of class partying like there was no tomorrow.
Getting to class the next day was clockwork. My cd player was filled with the latest U2 and Rolling Stone CD's while my bike and purse were stolen, and I got a ticket for underage drinking, I managed to take up belly dancing class,journaling, and writing for the campus newspaper doing articles on special events. Roughing it in classes, dozing, daydreaming, and zoning in and out of consciousness wasn't uncommon. Some of the classes were not meant to be passed like the one with probability and chance formulas. This one instructor who was very pretty would help us to write out outlines word for word and tell us what was on the test. Thank God for her.
I thought I would relax after college but it only gets worse with out continuing your education in my opinion. What I learned from college is to hold on tight to your achievements there because people will ask you for the rest of your life what did you get out of college? And what good was it?
University Purpose
Where are my priorities when there are no such thing as failures. Taking this job and that job and not paying the bills or paying the bills but not really doing what you need to do: "the dream job" is your determination when you first come out of college. Diligently studying and paying for classes and books is the course work of the education pursued. Pass that test, pass that class, apply while the irons sharp to jobs and work to your hearts content. Senior year was about getting ahead determination and trying again and again and again is getting ahead. There are many who think the only people who get ahead are those graduate degrees but those who get ahead are the diligent and determined in their values.
Senior year was the year of career development training classes and internship preparations. Creating a cover letter and resume for the company after rigorous research at the time was the first time I would be getting into a project from college that would enter me into the work force. Networking with others in my understanding of public affairs led me to a marketing position involving media out reach for a non profit organization that served youth in providing them the tools and proper training they needed individually with getting an entry level job.
Therefore, it was perfect match to my duties while I was meeting many others faster than I could imagine who were also beginning their careers. Creating contact lists, thank you letters, and invitations for non profit events all over Chicago for six months went successfully. Being college was the time where I was pushed to my limits outside of grade school and my family home for the longest time I've ever experienced. There was a chance that I could get through freshman year, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year.
My instructors today I am more than interested to make a list of their names today. Currently, I am calling the department of my school of SPEA to recollect and review my records of my time at university. As I have laughed and surprised myself with the memories that brightened m career path today my stress levels of the economy and the personal fears that I have possessed for more than I needed to has simmered down a great deal.
Connecting with an old colleague of mine from the campus newspaper was my next step and we discussed our career paths and records of our college history over the phone. Being able to speak with this peer and newspaper director of mine has helped me to focus on my purpose of my field of study in Public Affairs while continuin to pursue my career in marketing to a better level of action. The long bike rides to class, the early morning breakfasts of fruit and or homestyle eggs from the campus food court while listening to my cd player has strengthened the stream of memories that still develop over my future service today.
As I remember the long letters on campus that I wrote to my parents I can remember them as if I has written them yesterday. They too have kept them I hope but with all the calls from then to today over eight years later I'm sure that we don't remember them as well as I think. The time I was blowing my own working steam and building courage to endure on my own I realized that team work is a constant noble concept that strengthens through the course of the years as fast as the work force changes.
The education that I can recall from university has paid off more and more as I continue to adapt to the importance of university ties and connections that have accomplished alumni today and forever. to be cont.
Senior year was the year of career development training classes and internship preparations. Creating a cover letter and resume for the company after rigorous research at the time was the first time I would be getting into a project from college that would enter me into the work force. Networking with others in my understanding of public affairs led me to a marketing position involving media out reach for a non profit organization that served youth in providing them the tools and proper training they needed individually with getting an entry level job.
Therefore, it was perfect match to my duties while I was meeting many others faster than I could imagine who were also beginning their careers. Creating contact lists, thank you letters, and invitations for non profit events all over Chicago for six months went successfully. Being college was the time where I was pushed to my limits outside of grade school and my family home for the longest time I've ever experienced. There was a chance that I could get through freshman year, sophomore year, junior year, and senior year.
My instructors today I am more than interested to make a list of their names today. Currently, I am calling the department of my school of SPEA to recollect and review my records of my time at university. As I have laughed and surprised myself with the memories that brightened m career path today my stress levels of the economy and the personal fears that I have possessed for more than I needed to has simmered down a great deal.
Connecting with an old colleague of mine from the campus newspaper was my next step and we discussed our career paths and records of our college history over the phone. Being able to speak with this peer and newspaper director of mine has helped me to focus on my purpose of my field of study in Public Affairs while continuin to pursue my career in marketing to a better level of action. The long bike rides to class, the early morning breakfasts of fruit and or homestyle eggs from the campus food court while listening to my cd player has strengthened the stream of memories that still develop over my future service today.
As I remember the long letters on campus that I wrote to my parents I can remember them as if I has written them yesterday. They too have kept them I hope but with all the calls from then to today over eight years later I'm sure that we don't remember them as well as I think. The time I was blowing my own working steam and building courage to endure on my own I realized that team work is a constant noble concept that strengthens through the course of the years as fast as the work force changes.
The education that I can recall from university has paid off more and more as I continue to adapt to the importance of university ties and connections that have accomplished alumni today and forever. to be cont.
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