I've always been hesitant to participate in the growing community of social media. Not even owning a computer until I was a junior in high school--only 4 years ago in late 2006 that I bought myself--the internet and all the different communication outlets understandably were foreign and daunting. Now a college student, life without a computer seems even more foreign and daunting. Being unable to check Facebook at leisure or my e-mail would likely cause me to go into a state of manic depression.
Currently I'm at a point that all college students go through, usually once at the beginning of their college career in choosing a major and once near the end as to what exactly it is they will be doing (I'm experiencing the latter).
One potential path that I've been thinking about doing is graduate school, so I did some research and my school provides a program through the Intellectual Entrepreneurship program called the Pre-Graduate internship that allows undergrads get a feel for what graduate school actually is.
The requirements are that the undergrad get into contact with a graduate student and professor and get them to agree to participate in the program with you. I found graduate student and Ph.D candidate Sean McCarthy and professor Dr. Allen Friedman, both of who I will be interviewing for this blog.
It was Sean's idea that I start a this blog since his major field of study is internet communication and it's impact or potential impact. I've decided to use this as a means of doing research on possible career paths that I could take. Part of the reason I've been having a second college existential crisis is not because I don't know what I'm interested in but rather because I'm interested in too many things.
So my goal for this blog is to do weekly interviews with people that have jobs that I want or are working on getting to some such position. My first interview is set for next week with my mentor Sean.
Some of the different interviews that I will be holding will be with graduate students, professors, ex-peace corps members, military personnel, models, interior decorators, screen writers, writers, journalist, critics, and restaurant owners.
Hopefully I can also get guest columnist to contribute so as to help variegate this blog.
About Me
- jilopez
- This is a study in Semantics based on works I am currently reading. Saying that I hope to get productive and progressive conversation on the certain topics that are started by the authors.
I never knew that Interior Design was something that you'd ever consider -- I have always tinkered with the idea myself
ReplyDeleteI would ideally want something design-relate, I think. Sometimes I backpedal and ask myself whether that is practical or if it is superficial but then I realize that design is a very important part of life even though it may not be a direct necessity of living or being alive in the literal sense. I was going to keep going with this thought but I got tired. Hope to see/read more posts soon.
Yeah, that was what I was telling you before. We need to start our own architecture firm and you can do outsides and I can do interiors.
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