Something touching just happened to me so I must set it free into the blogosphere.
I recently received an internship to be a staff writer for a small magazine for girls. Now, I applied for this internship after having numerous phone conversations with people in the nonprofit field who told me I need to volunteer/intern with [...]
Archive for the ‘Random Thoughts’ Category
Hoping To Be In My Own Shoes
Posted in Post-Graduate Life, Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, blogging, job search, NPR, networking, internship, volunteering, nonprofits, writing on December 9, 2009 | Comments Off
Autumn Hiking For Novices
Posted in Life After Bates, Random Thoughts, Sociological Thoughts, tagged Bates College, Blue Hills, class, hiking, Outing Club, race on October 23, 2009 | Comments Off
Jordan had a couple of days off this past week so I took advantage of his GPS and his presence and planned a hiking trip. Now a hiking trip is something I have been wanting to do for weeks. I figured that it’s peak leaf season these days, we’re in New England, and the wilderness [...]
RIP Coffee Maker- I hardly knew thee
Posted in Post-Graduate Life, Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, caffine, coffee, coffee pot on September 23, 2009 | Comments Off
So the coffee pot that carried me through my senior year at college has died. My mother bequeathed the already heavily used machine to me as I left for Bates in August 2008. I stared at it sitting on our kitchen counter in September 2009 and decided it was time for it to go. It [...]
When “Work” No Longer Means Paper Writing
Posted in Post-Graduate Life, Random Thoughts, The Job Search, tagged Back to school, Bates College, Boston University, food court, gladiator sandals, hipster, interviewing, Matt and Kim, Old Commons, post-graduation, Ray-ban, The Job Search on September 21, 2009 | Comments Off
I had an interview at BU earlier this week for a position in their Educational Resource Center. The interview took place in their student union (something that is a mystery to me for there is no office “student union” at Bates). A few things I noted about the space: 1) there were Bank of America [...]
What Archives Can Tell You About Your Own Life
Posted in Life After Bates, Random Thoughts, tagged archives, Bates College, Cambridge, Civil War, Massachusetts, personal papers on August 31, 2009 | Comments Off
So, to fill some of my free time I’ve decided to volunteer for a local historical society, processing their archival collections. Now there are some benefits to this work at this point in my life, especially during the summer months. Firstly, I am not thinking about jobs or the economy, instead I am thinking about [...]
A New Way To Green America
Posted in Life After Bates, Random Thoughts, tagged Bates College, environmental justice, greening, recycle, reuse, Tupperware on August 26, 2009 | Comments Off
Cleaning up after dinner last night my boyfriend turned to me with the piece of tinfoil I used to cover the marinating chicken that day. “Should I toss this?” he asked me. I thought about it. We had just spent $7 on that generic roll of tinfoil and I was hoping it would last a [...]
Existence Overhaul: Part I (The Explanation)
Posted in Life After Bates, Random Thoughts, The Job Search, tagged Bates College, career search, Existence Overhaul, graduation, job search, job search tips, post-grad on August 17, 2009 | Comments Off
As a recent college graduate I’ve only just discovered what career fields I think I might want to get involved with for my first job post-college. This has been a long-winded process with many minor mistakes, personal freak-outs, and set-backs along the way. It took me applying to a few jobs with mediocre cover letters [...]
Mysteries in Archives Class
Posted in Random Thoughts, tagged archiving, Bates College, Medici family, short term, vampires on May 22, 2009 | Comments Off
So in going through photo after photo I have to examine all the writing on the back of each picture. Sometimes there’s a lot, in different mediums (pens, pencils etc.) and by different people. Often times its explaining the same scene in slightly different words. It can get frustrating. And boring. And so my mind [...]
