Interviews

Sunday Afternoon
So the last few weeks have been busy. We just finished our mid-semester finals. All of my classes but one is a half semester class. Now that they are over we are officially on to our spring break!!

This is a short update. I'm in the Pittsburgh airport (they offer free wifi!) waiting to board my flight to Philadelphia. It feels like I've been on the road a lot lately, but it's really just been the last week. Thursday I was in Washington D.C. interviewing for an internship and attending a networking event for Carnegie Mellon. I was surprised how fruitful the event was after the reports from past networking events. I talked with the C.I.A. and they showed interested and encouraged me to apply. Tomorrow I have an interview in Valley Forge, PA, we'll see how that goes.

Internships have been on everyone’s minds lately. Most of the students in the program are required to do a summer internship and few have one so far. The word in the halls is that so far it is normal. People don't usually get squared away until closer to the summer. I've been feeling nervous though. If all works out, I'll have an offer by the end of Spring Break.

Sharon has been great and very supportive while I've been interviewing. The preschool she works at has been really busy. They keep getting more kids in their classroom. They recently got a new boy that has been learning the routine and that has its challenges.

That's the update. Hope all is well with everyone else.

Monday Afternoon
Well, the free wifi went out right as I was sending the last bit above, luckily I had saved a version of it before so I still have it. It is now Monday afternoon and I am in the Philadelphia airport using the free wifi for University students. We get so many perks, no wonder people like being students their whole lives. I think my interview went well. I got picked up at the airport in a nice Lincoln SUV and with nice leather seats and Mission Impossible III to the hotel. Very nice. Once I got to the hotel things went downhill for me. I got my clothes out and started ironing, but started getting dizzy and sea sick feeling. After a few trips to the bathroom I resumed my ironing. A second later I found myself kneeling over the toilet bowl. Wow, nothing like being sick the night before an interview at the hotel. Needless to say I was feeling a little better after the first incident. Once more and I said a quick prayer and lay down. I woke up a couple of hours later at mid-night feeling better. I cleaned up and went back to bed. The rest of the day has been great. Hopefully there will be no surprises on the airplane; I haven’t noticed the puke bags lately….