All through the spring I have had three big things on my mind concerning the summer and next year. The first was getting good on-campus housing for the fall semester back in Keene. The problem was further complicated when the school announced that many upperclassmen would not be receiving housing as previously promised. Well 3,000 miles away I was freaking out. Luckily I had a great friend at home taking care of everything for me and he pulled out on top. We matched up with a friend of his who had a great lottery number and we got our first choice housing! It was a big relief.
The second big thing was running for a position in Student Gov back in Keene. Student Gov has been a great passion of mine since I have been in college and I was having to run my campaign from Scotland. Let me tell you it was not an easy task. It included many e-mails to a lot of students asking for their support during the election. The position I was running is two fold. I had to run during the entire school’s general election as a senior class representative. The election was a success and I won the position. The next part was the important one. I had to stand in front of the newly elected student assembly and ask them to vote me in as chairman of the student assembly. Well again, I was 3,000 miles away and needed to be standing in the student center of Keene State College from Scotland. Another task that needed some creative thinking. Being the computer geek I am, I did a video conference from here. Yet another success. I was officially elected chairman of the student assembly for my senior year. I was so excited! Already my buddy Dan (newly elected student body president) and myself have been planning great things for the next year. Even better is that it is the centennial year of our college so we have even more planning to do! I am really looking forward to the fall.
The final, and in my eyes, the most important thing I was worrying about was trying to land an internship for this summer. A friend from church mentioned to me about a great internship at a little local insurance company in the IS (information systems) department. I sent in my resume and a few days later got an e-mail from an HR representative inviting me to do a phone interview (again 3,000 miles away… sensing a pattern here?) for the position. I spoke with two gentlemen in the Hosting Services Engineering department and it went great. Not an hour and a half after the interview I received an e-mail from the HR rep informing me that I had landed the job and invited me to start as soon as I got home. Well the little insurance company is Liberty Mutual (I guess not that little huh) and I will be working on a project that will one day affect every employee at the company… a mere 45,000. It is a dream internship offering great pay and most importantly the chance to learn a ton while working with people who are much smarter than I.
