Happy New Year readers!
This is it. This is
my last semester. It’s a weird feeling
knowing that I have to find a big boy job in a few months and won’t have to go
to night classes anymore. I am very
nervous, yet excited to be starting a new chapter of my life soon.
First I gotta get through these next few months, and the
classes I’m taking surely won’t be letting me graduate without working for
it. I have Public Policy Analysis and
Capstone, two classes that require a lot of work. Public Policy Analysis requires a decent
sized paper at the end and my Capstone project will be an even longer
paper. For the latter I will be
conducting a survey with city and county managers in Kentucky about citizen
engagement; it is a follow up to a survey done by another MPA student a few
years ago. For Capstone we also have to
write a paper reflecting on our time in the program and on the classes we took,
but luckily this is due earlier in the semester. The last month of school will be challenging
with my PPA and Capstone project due about the same time, but after that I’m
home free.
Around the department we have quite a few events coming
up. We will be having an ASPA-MPA dinner
in February and the Awards Banquet in April.
We also acquired tickets to SVP’s Fast Pitch event where local
nonprofits make a short pitch for funding.
It was a lot of fun last year, and I’m looking forward to going again
this year. I am also still working with
Dr. Misis on our KY law enforcement social media paper, but we should finish
that before I graduate. I will be doing
a project for the program where I’ll be updating our alumni database to see
where everyone is working, so I will be doing lots of social media
creeping.
At the Aronoff I will be having a busy next few months as
well. All the big shows seemed to be saved
for the new year. In December I worked “A
Gentlemen’s Guide to Love and Murder” which was a charming little show. I also worked the Cincinnati Ballet’s “The
Nutcracker” which was just as enjoyable to watch as it was last year. In January I worked “Disney’s The Little
Mermaid” twice. It was very fun, but
different from the movie. It was neat
seeing all the little girls dress up in their Disney princess outfits for the
show and seeing them fall in love with the characters and the music. February will be busy there for me since I’ll
be working another Cincinnati Ballet show, Chris Rock’s standup, and the
musical “Something Rotten.”
Well that’s all for this month folks.
Thanks again for
reading, see ya next month!
