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yrmencynYeah, so... I gave my location for that last entry as "The DMP," and then I realized that I hadn't really, you know, mentioned what the hell that is. (This is probably related to the fact that I haven't really posted here, as such, in a few weeks.) For a while toward the end of the school year, I'd gotten really stressed out, wondering what the hell I was going to do over the summer to convince someone to give me money for rent, utilities, food -- you know, those little unnecessary luxuries of modern life. Right up at the end, with a lot of other stuff going on and my stress level rising, I had pretty much decided that I would just take out loans and pay myself to write over the summer. And then, during finals week, a bolt from the blue!
I had applied, toward the end of April (I think that's when it was?) for a number of extra positions in the coming year, so that I could boost my income and maybe pay off [some of] my credit card debt and/or save for next summer (which will be, uh, lean). I ended up getting a 25% appointment for the school year, bringing me up to three-quarter time (the maximum appointment possible for a grad student). It didn't, however, include any summer funding, so while I was happy about the opportunity for Au/Wi/Sp, I was still nowhere for summer.
And then (here's the bolt), my boss for the upcoming year offered me a 50% (i.e. normal-for-a-graduate-student) appointment over the summer. Yay! So 20 hours a week I'm here in the English Department's Digital Media Project. We're the department's in-house rich media production and pedagogical development unit. This is actually a fancy way of saying that I sit at the front desk and check out equipment :) Over the summer, the teachers are all pretty experienced and know how to use any tech they plan on using. But during the school year it should be more lively in here, with various projects going on all the time.
Woot money, woot CV line.
I had applied, toward the end of April (I think that's when it was?) for a number of extra positions in the coming year, so that I could boost my income and maybe pay off [some of] my credit card debt and/or save for next summer (which will be, uh, lean). I ended up getting a 25% appointment for the school year, bringing me up to three-quarter time (the maximum appointment possible for a grad student). It didn't, however, include any summer funding, so while I was happy about the opportunity for Au/Wi/Sp, I was still nowhere for summer.
And then (here's the bolt), my boss for the upcoming year offered me a 50% (i.e. normal-for-a-graduate-student) appointment over the summer. Yay! So 20 hours a week I'm here in the English Department's Digital Media Project. We're the department's in-house rich media production and pedagogical development unit. This is actually a fancy way of saying that I sit at the front desk and check out equipment :) Over the summer, the teachers are all pretty experienced and know how to use any tech they plan on using. But during the school year it should be more lively in here, with various projects going on all the time.
Woot money, woot CV line.
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Date: 2008-06-26 02:43 pm (UTC)Excuse me for forgetting, what are you going for school for again?
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Date: 2008-06-26 02:53 pm (UTC)So this is... well, not that related, on the surface. But I have some ideas about possible advantages to using a richer technological sphere in the creative writing classroom.
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Date: 2008-06-26 02:58 pm (UTC)I am currently trying to peice together an argumentative essay about a peice of poetry and how it applies to modern society.
GAH!
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Date: 2008-06-26 04:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-06-27 07:36 am (UTC)Always nice to know people are helping the struggling writers ;)