Back to School, Back to School.....

As of Wednesday, January 20th, I am back to my ongoing job as student. I spent my six weeks of Christmas vacation relaxing with the family, visiting old friends, shadowing dentists, and playing miniature ping pong with my little brother. After all that down time I was definitely ready to get back to school. This semester I will be taking Analytical Chemistry, Honors Biology II, Oral Communications, Global Business, and an intro Theology course for a total of 17 hours. I'm especially looking forward to Honors Bio II because I get to conduct an independent research project. I'll write about that later on.

Most recently I have began applying for Summer jobs in an attempt to get ahead of the competition. My job finding experience last Summer was a tedious one to say the least. I applied to 20 different local restaurants and was rejected at every last one of them until I got hired by a concrete company. Although one restaurant did hire me temporarily then dumped me before I could begin work and Outback Steakhouse gave me an full interview then said I failed the questionnaire/intelligence test. I was not aware that it took intelligence to work "Down Under." Keep that in mind next time you eat at Outback; all of the employees must be geniuses. But I digress....

So in order to avoid certain rejections of local Cape Girardeau companies, (at least in the dining sector), I applied out of state. I currently have applied to: Hawaii's Hawksbill Sea Turtle recovery project (they're an endangered species, pictured left), Florida Sea Base in the keys, and I entered a general application to Yellowstone National Park. Will any of these places hire me? Based on past experiences, probably not. But it can't hurt to try.