Well, I'm a student again - I have my laminated I.D. and everything to prove it. Orientation was last Thursday, and I was stunned at how many students there were for the Summer term (over 70!). Still, seventy or so fellow students is much better than the hundreds of incoming librarians-to-be that show up every Fall, so I'm glad I started now, when I'm slightly more than just another number in the system. Case in point: when I went to drop a form off at the Graduate School's administrative offices, the Associate Dean looked at the name on my form and said, "So you're Tom Bruno!" I'd like to think I'd make an equally memorable impression in the Fall, but who knows?
Although classes don't begin until Monday, already we had some homework - a technology requirement that we fulfill electronically (how else?) by making our way through a workbook and taking online quizzes to test our progress. I'm proud to say that I'm already finished with it, thanks in no small part to this job, which gave me all of the mostly-uninterrupted free time I needed to get it done. I think this position is really going to make the difference on the homework front.
Speaking of work, though, I might try to land some hours over at the GSLIS library as a student employee, if only to get my foot in the door for bigger and better things. Okay, the money wouldn't exactly hurt either! But there's a position open right now in periodicals that I'm sure I could do lickety-split, so long as I can shoe-horn it into my Incredible Shrinking Schedule. The fun thing is that once I'm done with the Reference and Information Services course that I'm taking this summer, I'll be eligible to work part-time at the Reference desk as well. Because who doesn't like looking stuff up for people and getting paid for it?
Except for people who aren't total dorks, that is.
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