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Wandering Thoughts
Apr. 7th, 2010 01:59 pmLast night, I spoke to one of my professors about writing me a reference for summer internships, she worried that I've had some assignments that didn't quite work out. One of these I'm redoing before the end of the semester, but she also worried that she didn't really see me working with children, much more young adult. After a rather cathartic conversation with my parents, I felt better and have a plan.
I realized something which I knew to be true but hadn't really put together before, just how different parts of myself are seen and not seen. I've many times spoken about storytelling and how comfortable I am speaking in front of an audience, this professor hasn't seen this part of me. Last semester, the presentation I had to do for her ended up caught on my own issues with Powerpoint and working in a very specific type of presentation. What's caught me this time was doing a book review using a Web 2.0 tool. I'm still learning how to read the assignments in a way to figure out how to use the tool to show what I know best. I now have a plan for redoing that review, I'm going to create a presentation with some simple slides and really tell the stories within that book.
In terms of this children and young adult dichotomy, its one that I hadn't even realized, because I've always been in smaller libraries, where everything was together. Also storytelling and connecting to young children that way is one of my favorite things to do in a library. I admit that I've only run a proper storytime briefly, but I've told stories before. So I need to figure out ways to bring out this other side of myself since they're both a part of me.
I admit that I didn't realize just how key gaming was to me until I was in these two classes where we kept talking about gaming and no one mentioned the kind of gaming that I do. That's why I'm in SI, its constantly pushing me to reexamine myself and consider what my path is. I think I may end up writing a version of this on my professional journal, because we've been talking about branding and advocacy and a large part of that for me is how do I make sure that all the sides of me are known.
I'm also considering writing her a short email with my resume and cover letter attached along with the job description of the internship so that she can get a sense of the other sides of me. I'd appreciate any advice from anyone on my flist about how have you balanced and figured out what works for you in school, job or anything.
I realized something which I knew to be true but hadn't really put together before, just how different parts of myself are seen and not seen. I've many times spoken about storytelling and how comfortable I am speaking in front of an audience, this professor hasn't seen this part of me. Last semester, the presentation I had to do for her ended up caught on my own issues with Powerpoint and working in a very specific type of presentation. What's caught me this time was doing a book review using a Web 2.0 tool. I'm still learning how to read the assignments in a way to figure out how to use the tool to show what I know best. I now have a plan for redoing that review, I'm going to create a presentation with some simple slides and really tell the stories within that book.
In terms of this children and young adult dichotomy, its one that I hadn't even realized, because I've always been in smaller libraries, where everything was together. Also storytelling and connecting to young children that way is one of my favorite things to do in a library. I admit that I've only run a proper storytime briefly, but I've told stories before. So I need to figure out ways to bring out this other side of myself since they're both a part of me.
I admit that I didn't realize just how key gaming was to me until I was in these two classes where we kept talking about gaming and no one mentioned the kind of gaming that I do. That's why I'm in SI, its constantly pushing me to reexamine myself and consider what my path is. I think I may end up writing a version of this on my professional journal, because we've been talking about branding and advocacy and a large part of that for me is how do I make sure that all the sides of me are known.
I'm also considering writing her a short email with my resume and cover letter attached along with the job description of the internship so that she can get a sense of the other sides of me. I'd appreciate any advice from anyone on my flist about how have you balanced and figured out what works for you in school, job or anything.
