Thank You Note

Dear Amanda,

I just wanted to thank you for the amazing opportunity you gave to do my internship with you. I learned a lot of new things and on top of that it was exciting to learn how to plan events. I also wanted to thank you for this opportunity because it has broadened my horizons on what I want to do post-graduation. I know now I could and want to do more than just an adviser position although that is still something I want to do as well. I guess I just seen now how much I want to work with students in a new perspective. You have an amazing position within our college/university and see how hard you work and the impact you make on students lives on a daily basis, made me realize I would love to do something like your position in the future. So thank you again for allowing me this amazing opportunity

Sincerely,

Tammie 

Goal's Ever Changing

I think probably what I learned most from my internship is what I do and don’t want to do for my career, but also all the other possibilities of what I could do that’s more than just being an adviser. My internship taught me that I really do love working with the students hands on / in person. To me realizing there is more than just being an adviser is important. Sometimes I get very stuck on a goal and I end up missing out on other opportunities because I get so focused on the goal at hand I can’t see anything else. So if I had to pick on thing that was the most important thing I learned from my internship it would be that.

I had three main goals I wanted from my internship learn how to plan events (better) create an inactive or project for incoming students and make a difference in a one student’s life. Looking back at these goal I at least for sure know I accomplished one of these witch was learn how to plan an event (better). I don’t think I will find out if anything of what I did for my internship actually made a difference any one student’s life. All I know is that I can keep trying I think this goal is one that is a continuous goal rather than a hard line accomplished goal. And I never got the chance to create a project for incoming freshmen but I did get to teach ASU 101 so that was fun. 

My Internship

I think my overall experience with my internship was pretty good! I wish I would have gotten to do more. But even though I didn’t I still learned a lot from what I did do. However with that being said I really wish I would have had the time do my internship somewhere else; and explore other options of what I could do with my degree. I think sometimes we make our minds up on “what we want to be when we grow up” and it hinders us from everything that we could do and it limits us to our true potential. If I had one bit of advice for student looking to do their internship in the future is don’t put it off, and don’t be afraid to try something new. When reflecting back on my internship, I know I could have done so much more. I just recently saw an internship opportunity for working with Mayor Greg Stanton, but I didn’t have time to apply to it. I looked like so much fun and a great learning experience. So my second bit of advice is don’t over load yourself with work and school you have to find a happy medium. My biggest regret to my entire college experience was I didn’t make enough time to enjoy the student activities. I was all work and no play. You have to find time for it.m Because before you know it you will be in your last semester wondering where the time went. 

Final countdown of the semester!

With only a few days left to this semester I can’t believe it went by so fast. Senioritis kicked my butt this semester. I use to think I that people were just making stuff up when they said that so they had a reason to be lazy and try and be carefree. But now that I am in my senior year I know everyone wasn’t making it up! I am an honors student (an over achiever and proud of it). However all of that went out the window this semester. With a majority of my grades probably ending this semester will be C’s I am very disappointed. But even more so I am worried about grad school now. I have tried my hardest to keep my GPA since I have been here at ASU with nearly a 4.5 but after this semester it will drop drastically. I know most students might be grateful to just get C’s and pass but just getting by isn’t me style. With the MPA program here at ASU if you have a 3.5 or higher you don’t need to take you’re GRE. I am probably the worst test taker there is. I have extremely bad test anxiety and now with my GPS dropping I am worried I will have to take the GRE test. I will have one semester to improve my GPA but I am afraid it won’t be enough. I would have to get straight A’s for every class next semester in order to even make up a little bit of the damage that I did this semester. It’s funny how your senior year you just lose all motivation to do anything. I am sure it didn’t help the I piled on a ton of different stressers this semester, with surgery, moving the first month of school, Starting a new job and taking 19 credits a semester.  I think that life and circumstance just got the better of me this semester. I really hope I can pull off next semester and still get into the MPA program. 

If I Ran ASU

I think that there are many things ASU does well at. For instance they are great at not excluding lower economic status students so they are affordable and one of the most affordable universities. They are great at innovation and coming up with countless new ideas. We are the first university to offer a school of sustainability. Our foundation is great, we have some of the best faculty and associates out there. (Yes I maybe a little biased) but still all of these statements are true. I think a strength we have is the fact that the university has been around for so long. But something that I also think that is a strength of ASU is sports teams are so recognizable, well known, and likeable, I really think this is a crucial part of the university.  However if I were in charge I think there would be a few things I would change. For instance I know some staff that at one point loved their job but as of recent times it isn’t working out so great for them. They want something new. What I would change about this is I would not only have more position opening and I would hire from within but I would also have something in place for employees of ASU to somehow have a more open door policy with their employees but also have their supervisors check with them. Next I would try and have a more cohesiveness between tendered faculty member or faculty in general and staff members. I don’t like how everyone thinks that they are better than one another. We are all fighting for the same cause. Lastly I would get rid of title 9 which makes any ASU employee a mandatory reporter of sex crimes that happen on campus. Although I think it should be in place for some employees like actual staff and faculty and community assistants, normal student workers should have to report. I am sure there is probably more I would change but this is my three biggest things that came to my head. 

Career Services

Career Services

So with this blog I am just going to be completely honest. I didn’t read that we had to see career services for this blog. I have been so busy with trying to do a session B science class that is kicking my A** I completely forgot about the blogs until yesterday. Hint for anyone not in their senior year don’t wait until your senior year to take your science classes. Anyways since I didn’t get a chance to go to career services, I am going to talk about a meeting I had with MaryJo not to long ago. Since we are all in this class we should all know who she is. Back in the beginning of November there was a few different internship opportunities out there for students. One was one I really wanted to apply to at Mayor Stanton office, but never got around to it. The other one was McLeaps. Which just like myself everyone says they are interested in these internship opportunities but no one ever apply to them. She was saying that hardly anyone apply to these internships even though they are great opportunities for the student’s. So think of this as PSA (public service announcement) Don’t be afraid to apply to something just because you may get turned down. From the sounds of it, it would have to be pretty hard for you not to get picked. 

Freshmen Bowling Event

One of the events that planned for this year’s incoming freshmen. So every year the freshmen get together and get to go bowling.  It has been the same thing for many years In the College of Public Service and Community Solutions. And it wasn’t any different this time either. Unfortunately my intern supervisor didn’t want to shake things up and go somewhere new. So if the place was already preset in stone I wanted to shake it up any way I could. So I picked the date and time, the food, everything else but the location.  Luckily the menu changed from the year before so it was easy to convince my boss why I had to change things. I loved planning this event but it proved to be a bit difficult.

My supervisor wasn’t really ever in the office because she was in charge of a summer program our college was hosting. This seemed to be the hardest part of planning the event considering I needed her approval for pretty much everything. It was her business card that had to pay for everything so even if I had everything ready to go she had to pay for it. I loved the freedom to do pretty much what I wanted, it sucked when it came time for her approval. It was hard to get a hold of her, and get her signature on anything so it made things get pushed off to the very last minute.

However even though there were some hiccups with this event, I was unable to make it to it because I got sick the night before, but everyone told me it was a blast and the food choices were great! To me that was a job well done for me!

ASU and Public Service

Since the organization that I did my internship at is Arizona State (ASU) it actually has a lot to do with public service. I mean if you think about it, they are offering a public service to anyone who qualifies and it’s called higher education. Especially with President Crows New American University model even more students have the opportunity to go to college. But ASU does a lot more than just offer education to students who otherwise might not have had the opportunity to go. The have research professors ho offer cutting edge research to a wide verity of fields of study which inevitably help the public in some way or another. They also donate money to a wide verity charitable causes and even offer countless scholarship to students as well. To me one of ASU core values is public services. However if we look deeper than just ASU and look at the college specifically where I interned Public Service and Community Solutions. With our numerous research centers that also offer consulting to the public. For instance Lodestar Center consults with Nonprofits from all over the country and I believe even some from other parts of the world. The college also offers one of a kind staff members specifically for students with in our college. Sometimes public doesn’t have to mean the general public it could just mean a population of people. When we think of public service organization like a nonprofit say Make A Wish it is not that they help everyone but that does not mean they aren’t doing a public service. Back to our one of a kind staff. The college our college has a staff member who specifically works with only our students on anything to do with money and college.  He is an amazing resource that not many students use. He can help point you in a direction of scholarships, how to sign up for government finical aid and so much more. So all around whether we look at the university as a whole or the college that I interned with specifically Public service is embedded in what it does to the core. 

Getting a Full Time Job Before You Graduate

So this blog is more like a question that I have for anyone reading and if you read this please leave a comment. I have been trying to get a full time job in the university since this summer. Keeping in mind most position want a bachelor’s degree, I am currently 179 day away from graduating. With that being said I have heard and seen may people get positions before graduating. Not so much in the university setting but other organizations that have the same requirements. No offense to any traditional students but I am 25 and have been working since I was 16. It’s not that I don’t have experience or the knowhow.  I have great reference but still haven’t had any luck with a full time position.

I guess the question I have for anyone reading this is, have you started working a full time position before you graduate? If so where at?  How old are you? What kind of work experience do you have? What were the requirements for the position? How do you think you got that job? My last question is, is this job something you actually want to do after your graduate or is this just a job in the mean time?

Yes I may be a little eager but I am just so close to graduation I can taste it. And I am ready for the next steps. Even if I don’t get a full time position before I graduate I know I will find something when I do. 

Update on new job.

So I have been at my new job in the School of Public Affairs (SPA) for just over 4 weeks now and it is going amazing. I love my new job and although it’s only a student worker position, I already have learned many new things and have so many more responsibilities.  I was a receptions before with Barrett, The Honors College and I hated it. So I was worried that I was going to be bored and never have anything to do. But it is the exact opposite. I work there 5 hours a day Monday through Friday which mean I cover the front desk during busy times. Multi-Tasking effort and skills are required. It might seem stressful I have to answer phones calls (and by the way the phone right pretty much none stop) Se up appointment greet everyone that walks in, remembering professors names and where they are located (which by the way I have always had bad memory and say mine is just like Dory’s from Finding Nemo).  Also do task that are randomly assigned to me by 3- 5 + people a day. Sometimes it is hard to keep track. But I love it and it keeps my busy. I love my bosses they are pretty epic not only because they buy me Starbucks almost every day but because they trust me to get task done and done right. I don’t have anyone hovering over me making sure I do it exactly how they want. They like and appreciate the work I put out. But the Starbucks is really nice to I’m not going to lie! At my old position which I loved originally I hated by the end of it and didn’t realize how much stress it was putting me under until I started this new position. Now please don’t take this the wrong way but by no means do I want to stay a receptionist, it’s just not what I want to do forever. However if my student worker position turned into full time I would take it in a heartbeat. I would get a pretty decent pay increase and get to work more than 20 hours a week.  But it’s also a great opportunity to have Grad School pretty much paid for. But as for now I see the student position as a great opportunity to network and grow and learn. Which is exactly what I am doing. So if any of you call in or drop in to see your advisors you are most likely going to be talking to me setting at the front desk don’t be afraid to say HI!

Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS)

So for my free write for this week I wanted to talk about something special to me. I mentioned in a previous blog that I had a disease that makes me gain weight, no matter how healthy I eat or how much I work out. I wanted to take some time spread some awareness about my Disease that not many know about and no one really likes to talk about.  The disease I have is called Polycystic Ovarian Syndrome (PCOS). This is an endocrine disorder or in simple laymen terms a hormone imbalance. This makes it extremely difficult to lose weight, because my body doesn’t process food like everyone else. It also has a lot of other side effects as well and sometimes side effects from weight gain. Some women with PCOS can grow facial hair (and I am talking lady with a beard in a circus), your hair can fall out and get what’s known as male pattern baldness. But what seems to hit most women the hardest is it also makes conceiving a child extremely difficult if not nearly impossible.  One and four women have PCOS and most don’t even know they have it. It can affect your time of the month and either make you not have a period or constantly have a period. Either way neither of those option are fun. Most of the side effects I have said show on the outside, but it effects the inside too. You can get things like heart disease and diabetes, painful cysts on your ovaries, and so many other things. I really wanted to talk about this more because so many people just see a fat person and assume they are fat because they eat too much and they don’t know healthy food, or they don’t work out and they are just lazy. Now don’t get me wrong I’m not trying to be the PC police and say stop fat shaming I’m just saying to be educated on what some fat people may be going through. This Disease has made me gain nearly 75 ponds in the last 3 years. But not only did I have to struggle with weight gain I also have to deal with that I may never have children of my own. And anyone who knows me knows this is very important to me and has been a dream of mine since I was a very young girl to have my own children. It’s because of this is why I decide to have weight loss surgery. I needed something else to help kick start my weight loss. Because nothing I did worked. Its has been 12 days today since I had my surgery and for the first time in over three years the scale is finally going down and not up. I’ve lost 14 pounds. And some people may think that weight loss surgery is the easy way out let me reassure you it is the furthers from easy. This is by far one of the most difficult things I have ever done. It is challenging mentally, emotionally, and physically. For the rest of my life the most food I can consume in a setting is no more than ¾ of a cup. The first month after surgery you feel like your starving, literally. You’re on a pure liquid diet for the first three weeks after surgery. Trust me there is only so much soup someone can eat before they lose their mind and want something else. And that leads to the emotional have you ever cried because you were so hungry but you couldn’t eat! Yea it’s hard and the pain after surgery is just crazy, I have never felt anything like it! But in the end it is worth it those 14 pounds I’ve lost and the possibility that I have helped increase my odds for having children is worth all the pain and tears.

Well thanks for stopping by

Tammie 

Interview Your Boss

I have two dream jobs at the university which is why I chose to intern here at ASU.  One being a provost or a Dean of student affairs and the other is an advisor. I know they are drastically different but in a way they have a lot of similarities mostly the interaction they have with students.  From my very first blog I have said I really like working with students. This to me is really a dream job so since I also am a student work here in the college I have always worked closely with adviser and picked their brain on how I could become one. Since I have for a while been talking to many advisers here in the college I wanted to go for the provost of the downtown campus. The Assistant Dean of Students and Down Phoenix Campus Dean of Students is Dr. Ronald Briggs and unfortunately I wasn’t able to meet with him recently. However over the summer in my previous student worker job I was able to work with him some and I actually had an opportunity to talk to him about how he got to where he is today. During the conversation I had with him we talked a lot about his education and what degrees he had why he chose them and how they helped in becoming an Assistant Dean of Students. We talked about While he was an under grad he was a student worker just like me he worked in housing, and said that was what really kick started his career in academia. Although we never got around to what his under graduate degree was he did say if you plan on going to graduate school, that your bachelor’s degree doesn’t really matter pre-say. It matter that you have it just not what you have it in.  He went on to discuss that he got his Masters in higher education and went on to get his Ed.D. He said to be any kind of Dean at a University you must have some sort of doctoral degree, and the Ed.D. is an education doctorate which the slight difference is the Ed.D. is a terminal degree. What that means that you can’t become a 10 year professor and do research. It is meant strictly for people who want to work in the administrative side of academics. At the time of our conversation I hadn’t made up my mind about what Master’s degree I wanted. Most people I talked to said I should just get M.Ed. but I wasn’t sold on it. What if for some reason I didn’t always want to work in education, my degree would be pointless and I wouldn’t be able to get a job. In the conversation I asked Dr. Briggs what he thought would be better for me and my journey. I told him I was thinking of the M.Ed. and the MPA. I explained to him that I wanted the MPA more because if for some reason I didn’t want to work in the academic setting any more I could get a job elsewhere with the MPA more so then the M.Ed. He said I was on the right track, that yes the M.Ed. is a good degree for working in higher ed but the MPA would allow me to work the same position as well as outside of the university setting as well. I asked him then if I would still be able to the Ed.D. from the MPA, he told me of another student within our college that got his MPA and is now working on his Ed.D, and has very similar aspirations as I do, so yes it was very possible. That conversation with Dr. Briggs is what made me decided to get my MPA and although some other things that I want to do have changed since that conversation it still made a huge impact on my education and what decision I have made about what degrees I want to pursue.  

Leadership in the work place

Leadership played a big role with my internship and with the people I work with. We all have to have leadership skills. My supervisor for my internship was also running a summer program called Young African Leaders which is a grant run project that was given to us by president Obama. So before that started my supervisor and I sat down and she gave me a task list. It was my job to get all of it done with little to no help from her. At times it really sucked because I had never done anything like this but at the same time it did teach me great leadership skills and really how to just take inactive and trust my gut feelings on things.  

As for everyone in the office, we all have to pretty much be leaders. No one really watches over us or tells us what to do. We all know that we have tasks that need to be completed and we have to get them done because if we don’t students could not get dropped from classes on time or added to class late. Or maybe some people may need help with finical aid. We deal with some many things in the office of student affairs that we have to be on top of our stuff all of the time. 

New Job

To keep my theme of good and exciting news going for this set of blog posts I wanted to share that upon my return to work I will be starting a new job as the receptionist for the School of Public Affairs. I am so excited for the new opportunity because I love serving our college and I am planning on getting my masters degree from here.

Career Services

In preparation for the job opportunity in the School of Public Affairs I had career services help me overhaul and update my resume. I would say that the experience was helpful as I ended up getting the job that I wanted. My next goal is to find full time employment at the university.

The Best College Experience Yet

I am very happy to share that a few nights ago I got an email from the office of the president asking me to share my story about the experience I've had at ASU and what this university means to me at an even geared toward encouraging underprivileged youth to attend college. I was so honored to be chosen for such an occasion because it's all I've ever wanted from my time here to show how much ASU means to me and share my love and passion for being a Sun Devil with others. It gets even better because I get to have lunch with President Crow and several top CEOs and political leaders. I am so grateful for the experience so I wanted to share it on my blog.

Finally Got My Surgery

So my blogs are going to be very short tonight as I had surgery earlier today.  Unfortunately Ive been super busy trying to get things in order for this surgery that I had to put my blogs on the back burner. My spelling might not be so great because I'm on pain medication and in lots of pain but I wanted to get them done! Today I got the lap-band procedure which was a big step in my life because I've been transforming ever since I started my college journey. I have a disease that makes me gain weight and although I eat healthy I can lose weight. So a while back I made the decision to undergo weight loss surgery because I want my outside to be representative of the woman I have become on the inside.

Day to Day

A typical day in my internship can be a bit umm what the word is boring. Yes I am learning a lot but sometimes send out countless emails making tons of phone calls just gets old quick. I know, I know I should get use to this considering I want to work in the university setting doing something very similar. But there are also many days where I get to interact with students that are already here and ask them what they want to see what they like and think. Get their opinions on things I am trying to put together and to me that makes all the long days with countless emails and phone calls all worth it. The other fun part my day to day life in my internship is getting to meet with different directors and staff of the college. For instance the one person I got to meet most with for the fall welcome events I was planning was the director of marketing and communications for the entire college. I really like meeting with people and having an interactive job, rather than sitting in an office by myself and trying to communicate with people via email. Something about in person is so much better. Well at least to me! 

Future Endeavors

So since this is a free write I wanted to talk about something that has to do with my future career. But not anything to do with my internship. So here is a little fact about me first most of what I learn I learn through watching and seeing and hearing things. So I was watching this video on Netflix called “Cowspiracy“  Yes you read that right I did not spell it wrong it says Cow. So if you haven’t read my original blog I am really big into food systems and sustainability. So any chance I get I love to learn more about the subject, and the easiest way for me to learn is by simply watch documentary of the subject. Hence why I watch Cowspiracy. Anyways as I was watching a lot of my morals on the subject got very blurred. I learned that big Agro business more sustainable then organic agriculture, and to add insult to injury it’s cheaper. How is this even possible? Big Agro business believe it or not make more Co2 emission then all of cars, boats, trains, planes combined. So how in the world is it more sustainable? Well simply said is that it take more to produce organic and pasture raised animals. This made me think everything I have been learning was wrong. But here was the twist. It’s not wrong. I never learned that Big or small agro business was sustainable, it was the exact opposite. Yes I know no one wants to hear you need to stop eating all animal products. I get it its hard pill to swallow. I use to hate people telling me to be vegetarian or vegan. I use to think they were hippies. But it’s so much more than that. It’s not good for us it’s not good for our planet and it’s not good for the animals.  But what does this have to do with my future career well. This video also showed me how many policies are in place to hinder smaller farmers and to keep all of America in the dark about what is really going on in agriculture. So I decided that after I finish my Bachelor’s degree in public service and public policy with a concentration in sustainability that I would go on to get a concurrent MPA- Masters in Public Administration and Sustainability. So When I graduate with my Master’s degree I will actually have to Masters. But here is what I want to do after that. Yes I still want to work in the university setting, but I will also start lobbing for policy changes I want to see happen with our food system. After doing this for a few years I want to go back and get a Jurist Doctorate focusing on environmental law.  So that I can go on and become a politician so that I can just write the laws the way I see fit while educating people about the harsh reality of agriculture.

Senior Year Fears

Hey thanks for stopping by and taking time to read my blog. I think for this one I want to talk about how nervous I am to actually graduate with my bachelor’s degree. But your probably thinking why this should be exciting time in your life. And it is but I am still scared see, I never graduated from high school. I was forced to drop out when I was just 16 years old. I can remember the day like it was yesterday. It was November 14^th 2006. My dad had been threatening me for years telling me if I didn’t get my grades up that he would make me drop out. Well when I finally got into high school he became more serious about the matter so I reached out to my advisers and principles but no one believed me. They said he can’t make you, it’s against the law. Well on that day my dad came to pick me up from school he walked into the office and he dis-enrolled me. He told them we were moving and I was going to be going to another school. That was just a big fat lie but they believed it. I didn’t ever go back to high school after that day. However when I was 18 I went to enroll myself into a GED program where in less than a year I received my GED. From here I started taking a class to become an EMT-emergency medical technician. I didn’t pass it my first time but I did my second time. But I never did anything with it instead I decide to go to Community College and take some lower division courses. So two and half years later I transfer to ASU with no diploma. It was taking for ever to get anywhere at the community college so when I had the chance I took it and I transfer to ASU in the Fall of 2013.  Man I never even thought I would get this far. From a no body high school drop out to a University student. It was a huge deal for me. When I transferred in only 27 of my credits transferred that means I started in my sophomore year here at ASU. So when I graduate here in Spring of 16 it will have been almost 10 years from the time I dropped out until I got my bachelor’s degree. I will be the first person in my family to have a bachelor’s. SO although I want to go on to Grad school this will be the first time I actually graduate with something. It’s such a nerve raking felling. It makes me scared, sad, happy, excited, and unsure most of all. I don’t know what is going to be next for me. I don’t know how this will change my life. What is in store for me? It makes me scared to have such a huge change about to happen in my life. I mean by the time I graduate I will have been going to school for almost 6 years. That’s a long time and it will be over before I know it. Anyways I guess I just wanted to share some of my thoughts about graduating and how nervous it really does make me.

Thanks for stopping by check back soon for more blogs

Tammie 

Arizona State University

The organization that I doing my internship at is Arizona State University within the College of Public Service and Community Solutions academic affairs office.  I worked with the retention coordinator Amanda Andrew. She works with all students from the time they register for classes until they time the graduate. For me I would love to have a job like this. She gets to work with the students in the residents halls plan college wide events and is in charge of ASU101 and so many other things. So for my internship one of my main task was to help her with Fall welcome well I pretty much organized all of Fall Welcome for our college this year. See Amanda was busy filling in for another staff member for young African leadership institute so I got to pretty much run the show when it came to the events for fall welcome from food, swag (free give a ways) the works I came up with designed and picked out everything. One of my other main objectives for my internship was to create and manage a program for our college called academy. This is a college wide initiative that we haven’t had success with in the past. So I am in charge or revamping it and making students more interested in it. Well that at least is my goal for it! One other project I might have for my internship is helping organize and plane a trip for students during fall break, for those who can’t go home they still can have something fun to do here in Arizona. Last year the trip was to the Grand Canyon but it was just a turnaround trip which wasn’t as fun. Hopefully if I can help out with it and make it a longer trip so that it is more enjoyable for those who want to go.   

Let Me Introduce Myself

Hello everyone and thanks for stopping by my blog.

My name is Tammie Garrett and I am a senior at Arizona State University pursuing a degree in Public Service Public Policy with a concentration in sustainability. I am also a part of Barrett, The honors College and will be starting my thesis this year. My thesis is about community gardens, but ran as a nonprofit with a twist. It will focus on developing urban vertical gardens in abandon building for low income areas and so much more that I could probably go on forever about. Anyways I am super into sustainability and food, and how to make sustainable food choices available to the masses especially low income areas and not just the higher socioeconomic status. I believe good healthy food is a right and shouldn’t be held from anyone. With that said my internship really has nothing to do with any of that. However I am sure I will gain a lot of great skills from it. I do hope to eventually work at a university and will probably work with the government in some aspect as well like the FDA or lobbing, not 100% sure just yet. 

So there are a few things I hope to get out of my internship.

1. Learning how to plan events

2. Create initiatives / project for incoming students  

3. Make a difference in at least one student life

Yes I know the last one is a huge request but here at ASU we have a sign we like to say 

“Dream it Do it” and I honestly believe I can make a difference in students’ lives, that’s why such a big part of me wants to work at a university after I graduate.

Well that’s it for now stop back by soon and see more about my internship experience.

See ya soon,

Tammie