More March Madness

Welcome back everyone!  It feels like it’s been a long time since my last post, but apparently it’s only been a month.  Though it may have felt like such a long month because I’ve been so busy!

It’s crunch time around here.  I graduate in just a few weeks and I’m feeling the pressure.  I have my Capstone draft due in just two weeks which is slowly coming together (though slower than I would have liked) and I’ll also have a paper due for Public Policy Analysis soon after that.  I am also applying for jobs pretty much daily with no luck so far.  I am either too picky or am casting too wide a net, I have no idea.  Looks like I’ll be going back to slinging coneys at Skyline a couple days a week after graduation.  Maybe the part time work will give me more time to apply for big-boy jobs, who knows (I don’t)?  Either way, May 7^th can’t come soon enough even though I know it’s going to be a stressful few weeks.

At this job I have been quite busy.  I recently finished up typing transcripts of interviews Dr. Misis conducted with local police chiefs. Transcription was a lot more…tedious than I thought it would be.  I never realized how much people change their train of thought while talking until I had to try and type it and keep track of what they were saying.  Once I finished that Dr. Misis and I started on writing our research paper on law enforcement’s use of social media (we presented it here at NKU at a conference last semester).  It should be a neat little paper that fills in the gap of literature of police use at a smaller city level.  I have also been chipping away at updating the MPA’s alumni database.  Creeping people on LinkedIn has made it fairly easy, but there are still lots of people who apparently don’t have any form of social media and thus make it difficult to update their information.   Hopefully we can use the updated list to better promote what career fields prospective students can go into, while also keeping in better contact with our alumni. 

At the Aronoff I recently worked “Something Rotten” which was hilariously awesome as well as “The Illusionists” which was pretty cool to see up close since I worked in the very front of the theatre.  We also just had our volunteer party which had a pretty fun group called the Broadway Boys perform.  Up next is “Matilda the Musical.”  At the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra I have been learning a lot about nonprofit marketing.  I have done a wide variety of projects and have even written some promotional letters that have gone out to the public!  It’s been really interesting learning a whole new side of nonprofits that isn’t always covered in classes. 

Well that’s all, it certainly has been March Madness for me (and my brackets).  Hopefully in April (for my FINAL blog post EVER) I’ll have some job updates and will have finished a lot of my work. 

See ya next time!

Literally me right now.  (Get it, the March Hare who's mad?  Hahahahahaha)