Terpness for the summer

Summer is here and I have officially started my summer internship at the University of Maryland - College Park. This summer I will be working as the Parent Program Coordinator for the Orientation program here. So far I really like it. The students who are serving as Orientation Advisors are amazing... a ton of fun and they are going to be such hard workers all summer! My boss is great and the office staff is fun too :) Plus I have Washington DC as my backyard for the entire summer... I'm already planning what museums I want to visit and what other fun things I want to do. Plus I have a week of vacation and am going to go to New York City with my mom for a few days and then tear up the town here in DC with Spring and Chris! So excited... 

Its just nice that it is summer now... The last few weeks of school were pretty hellish... lots of final papers and reading to do and then work was just as insane. I finally finished the project I have been working on all semester... a 500 page Faculty Resource Manual for all of our University 101 instructors. I'm so proud of the final project and am so thankful for all the contributors and the other help I received on the project. It really was a team effort. On top of that we hosted our first U101 conference which was a huge success as well. I am really proud of all the great things my office is doing, but its def. been keeping me busy! I'm so happy to report that, despite the crazy schedule and hard work, I ended the semester with a 4.0! woo-hoo... I'm halfway to finishing my goal to graduate with a perfect GPA. 

Besides that things on campus are going really well... I'm wrapping up projects and getting ready to hand them off at the Career Center and with Mutual Expectations. I've set up a practicum 2 experience for next spring and I'm super pumped about teaching in the fall! So much to look forward to, but I'm excited to take a bit of a "break" and enjoy my summer. 

Orientation starts tomorrow! Hopefully we all survive... Updates throughout the week and lots of pictures to be posted on facebook throughout the summer!