You see, I'm an intern because I'm currently a grad student. At this very cool university called NYU. In an even cooler program called Educational Communication and Technology. And that in itself has been its own very cool journey (note to self: check Thesaurus for more words for "cool"). You can read about some of that journey here.
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This blog is about that journey within the journey. More specifically, about my journey as an intern.
But you see, I'm already in the middle of that journey. In fact, I'm way in the middle. I'm hip-deep in my intern experience.
So yes, you guessed correctly: I am very, very behind in beginning this blog.
I never used to be this way. In fact, I used to be very disciplined, organized, and in control. There's evidence, even. Well, I still kind of am all those things. For the most part. But grad school has gotten the better of me, in many respects. So I've been slacking a bit. And, I am the kind of person who tends to take on lots of different things. My aunt once gave me a book titled, "Daily Devotionals for Women Who Do Too Much." Yeah, I'm that girl.
Add to this character trait the fact that while actually beginning the internship (in May -- MAY!!), I was taking a summer course on Leadership for School Improvement (intense and interesting), then had a mini-trip (Texas, to visit the parents) and back-to-back visitors (from home and from Bangkok) and you see how quickly the summer slipped out from under me like a silken bed-sheet and the next thing I knew it was July 24th. What the heck happened?
So these are the reasons I'm so behind in starting this blog. I am telling you all of this because I feel like it needs some explaining. I'm not really that irresponsible; just busy. I did consider lying. I even looked up how to back-date blog posts (it's true; I confess). But then I just felt so uncomfortable about it that I decided to lay it all out there.
I mean, I'm a teacher and I always think about what I'd tell my students to do. I mean, I know my intern advisor will be reading this (hi, Francine!) among other professors and colleagues, and so I always think: if I were them, and a student came to me and said, "Yeah, so, I'm really behind… I don't know what to do… " My response would be, "Just begin. Just start with something. It doesn't matter what. It's just a reflection. Just write." I mean, it's not a paper or a design document, right? I haven't even received a rubric or set of criteria about what this journal is supposed to contain. So it really just just be my thoughts about what I'm learning as I intern, right?
Right. So here we go. Starting in the Middle, take 1.
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