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it's been a great week, and only one more week of spring semester left!!! ya-hoo!!!

i'm thrilled to be almost done, no surprise. this semester has been very interesting, and so different from last. for one, i've had a semester long group project to do in my performance systems analysis class. and with a client, the florida equivalent of the dmv. and for 2, the part time job. so yes, it'll feel extraordinary to finish our paper and present our recommendations to our client.

the job this semester has been a real blessing as well. not much in terms of pay, but anything is a boon! and i get to keep it, going into summer.

summer will be crazy this year. i finally found an internship, hooray again! and this will be 20 hours a week. so with my other job, at around 17, it'll be serious work to maintain that balance. but hopefully, i'll still be able to do homework on the job. my class load will be the same at full time status, but the internship is one of those classes, so the classwork should be relatively minor. we shall see.

we had a seminar yesterday for my department, instructional systems, and it was so informational. we had different workshops and a panel of speakers came from all over. these were alumni who basically painted a picure of what we could do when we graduate. so of course, it was fascinating. i gained many valuable tips, and did some networking (which i'm STILL learning is so key). lots of sweet new people to meet, and it was really just a wonderful experience to get their perspectives from their varying industries. probably the single most important thing i learned was that reinforcement/remotivation in networking. fsu is big on that. and it shows.