Today was my midterm site visit. Around the midpoint of the academic term, an Academic Program Advisor (APA) comes to your internship to make sure things are going well, and to help mediate if there are any issues. My supervisor and I had a lovely visit with Esteban, the APA for the Business and Global Trade program. He had a student at Special Olympics, so he and my APA had made arrangements for him to visit me instead. It made for a funny first interaction because they send you an email to ask about scheduling the visit, and I thought I had somehow made it onto the wrong email list. (Scary thought, by the way.)
After work, which was mostly continuing to work on various research and editing projects, I left early for class. The midterm for my academic course, Strategic Communication, is a situational analysis of a news article from the Times of India on the quota reservations in government and educational seats (and, ultimately, elections between different politicians). This was a take-home final that we had received last week, and tonight we weren't originally scheduled for a class because of it; however, we're having to skip a class later in the term, so we voted to just keep going. I think we could all use the break soon -- it wasn't as fantastic a class as we're used to having simply because everyone is feeling the crippling effects of the summer heat, and so the level of interaction between the students was down tremendously. Still, we had some good discussions.
It was a very uneventful day, which I think was a blessing in some way. I'll confess, though, that I'm not entirely sure about how great a blessing is. Perhaps I'll understand better when things really start moving at work this month.
After work, which was mostly continuing to work on various research and editing projects, I left early for class. The midterm for my academic course, Strategic Communication, is a situational analysis of a news article from the Times of India on the quota reservations in government and educational seats (and, ultimately, elections between different politicians). This was a take-home final that we had received last week, and tonight we weren't originally scheduled for a class because of it; however, we're having to skip a class later in the term, so we voted to just keep going. I think we could all use the break soon -- it wasn't as fantastic a class as we're used to having simply because everyone is feeling the crippling effects of the summer heat, and so the level of interaction between the students was down tremendously. Still, we had some good discussions.
It was a very uneventful day, which I think was a blessing in some way. I'll confess, though, that I'm not entirely sure about how great a blessing is. Perhaps I'll understand better when things really start moving at work this month.
Blessings,
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