Pictures!!

Here are some pictures from my amazingly fun Spring Break Ski Trip!

It was 8 degrees the last day there, so we needed some Starbucks to warm us back up!

We skied primarily with these two guys :)
Don't worry, they were on the trip with the same group I was, it's not like I met them randomly and decided to ski with them!


He was just pretending, he didn't actually hit the tree...

I'm going back to Washington DC

Well, it's official. I will be doing my internship at Children's National Medical Center in Washington, D.C.!! I'm getting more and more excited about it, yet I'm still nervous--of course, it's my first big step into grown-up-world. I start two, yes TWO, days after I graduate from Baylor. Yikes. It's a three day drive up there...hmm, I wonder how that's going to work...

Other than that nothing too interesting has been going on lately, just a bunch of work and class. Actually, I really shouldn't be on here right now, I should be studying for my Medical Terminology test that is on Wednesday morning because I'm thinking it's going to kick my butt. I have about 400 words that I have to know the definition for...it's pretty intimidating! Hopefully I'll study well though...I mean, I started studying on Saturday and studied at least 4 hours Sunday and today, tomorrow I have even more time to study between work and after work...sounds like fun right? I work in the morning, will study in my three hour break, work again, and then study more until my brain hurts again...ah the joys of college...glad (yet scared) that it will be over in like 75 days now.

Hope to have pictures sometime next week...they will be beautiful and snowy!!

Wow

There are now 85 days until graduation. In less than three months my college days will be behind me. Soon thereafter I will be off doing an internship.

Tomorrow may be the day I learn where I am going for the summer to do said internship. I had my last interview today, and while I was at the interview I got a voicemail from Yale that sounded promising...I'm trying to talk myself down in case I don't get it, but I'm really hopeful.


Fun thing to come...

Internships

This process is driving me crazy!

I am super appriciative that I have been given the opportunity to interview with five excellent hospitals. I know it's something that I didn't do on my own, all of this is for Gods glory and because of his grace.

However, why can't everyone follow the same deadline schedule?! It is absolutely nuts for a hospital to expect me to give them an answer before I have all of my offers in. I would be lucky to be at either of the two hospitals that have offered me positions, they are excellent institutions and I know I would learn a lot at either hospital, but neither is my first choice. I want to wait for my number one hospital to give me a response before I decide where I want to go, is that too much to ask? Child life internships are extremely competitive, there can be 20-30 applicants for 10-15 interviews for 1-4 internship positions. Its crazy. I only need one, but I want it to be the one that I feel like would be the best for me. Obviously if my number one doesn't offer me the position I'll go down the list to the first hospital that does, but If I'm not supposed to hear from numbers one and two for another week how am I supposed to give number three an answer in four days??

The child life council even sets recommended dates so this doesn't happen, but apparently hospitals can choose to follow the recommendations or not. The CLC says that offers should be out no later than the 20th and that students have one week, until the 27th, to accept or decline. Now obviously if there is a hospital that offers me an internship and they're low on my list I want to tell them "thanks for the opportunity, but go ahead and offer to someone else" before said offer deadline so that they can offer it to someone else, but I don't want to say that before all the cards are on the table...

Oiy vey.

Any suggestions??

March of Dimes

I'm going to be walking in the March of Dimes fundraiser event, the March for Babies, again this year!

It is a great thing that I have been doing for two years now. In case you don't know, the March of Dimes is a non-profit organization that raises money to fund research to attempt to find reasons for and stop premature birth. You can find out more at http://www.marchofdimes.com if you would like--there might be a march in your area that you can participate in!

I need your help though. I am trying to raise $250 for the cause! Please, even if you can only give $5 because of these hard economic times, help me out :) There is a fundraiser link to the side that you can click to support me, and to make it even easier you can donate online by credit card!

The march isn't until April, so I'll keep posting about it as it nears...

Have a great week :)

Internship

Well, I got one. I have been offered an internship position at Children's in Dallas.

I had a phone interview with Inova Fairfax Hospital for Children on Thursday, I felt like it went really really well. Now I am waiting to see if they want an in person interview sometime in February.

I am still waiting to hear back from Nebraska after my phone interview with them last Thursday. I though it went pretty well.

So far I've heard "we're not going to offer you an interview" from two hospitals, Greenville SC and Memorial in Chicago. I have yet to hear one way or the other from Yale (I know they have and are reviewing my application, I got an email telling me that, but no communication since then), Children's National in DC, Rush Children's in Chicago, and Denver Children's.

I know that the opportunities and training that I would recieve at Dallas would be excellent, it would be top-notch, and I would really be luck to be there. Yet, I am still apprehensive about accepting the position. Children's is a HUGE hospital and it is only getting bigger. There are between 35 and 40 Child Life Specialists on staff there. Though I know that it would be a great place to learn, it intimidates me. I don't know if I could flourish in that environment, all those 

people constantly trying to tell me things and show me stuff, I feel like it might be overwhelming. I would prefer to work at a smaller hospital where the program is small but excellent. But then again, it doesn't matter what I prefer, it matters what God wants for me. Oiy Vey.

On a lighter note, I got to see President Bush at his first public outing since leaving office!! He and Laura came to the Lady Bears game vs. Oklahoma. Sadly we lost the game in the final seconds, but hey, I was in the same place as President Bush!!

Layout

I know, I just had a post about my new layout and I've changed it yet again...
I was tired of the Valentine's day-ness of the other one. I like this one better :)