Start the Last Year

It’s been a while, I know.

Lots has been going on. Over the summer I wasn’t able to get any internship even though I had a few different interviews…..my animation project from class got into several festivals…..I changed my thesis even though I had all the prep done for the other one…..started my absolute final year of school…..and decided to apply for a Fulbright ETA.

From the top:

No internships this summer….again. I honestly thought I had a good shot at some of them, but nothing came of it. I’m starting to freak out thinking that I’m not going to get anything after graduation now - I’ve got no experience!

My animation did get into a few festivals this summer, even the one I made at Ringling. So that was cool.

I changed my thesis. Don’t get me wrong, I love my first story and I seriously would like to create it at some point. But for thesis I only have 4 minutes max and I can’t get the story in under that time restraint - its just too complex. So now it’s the story of raising a puppy for the Seeing Eye from the dog’s point of view…it’s slow goings though. (Am I doing the right thing?)

Classes started again for my last fall. Seriously I am done with school….well at least with being the student. I’m all for teaching eventually - that’s why I’ve been so gun-ho with my department to let me take these classes on teaching.

Fulbright ETA or rather English Teaching Assistant. I’ve decided I really have no confidence that I’m going to get a job after graduation - so lets go somewhere. Well that’s one reason. The other reason is that my friend from Ringling recently began teaching english in Japan and I am completely jealous. But Fulbright doesn’t have ETA programs in Japan so I’ve decided to apply for Taiwan. 

I’m having problems with the application though. Since I decided to apply so late in the game I’ve had less than a month to research, plan, and write out my essays. There is one week left and though all that is going well I can’t get people for references. I don’t have real relationships with lots of teacher’s here on campus, and those I want to ask I can only reach by email and they aren’t answering….. 

So, yeah - today isn’t a great day. Everything is a bit over wheliming - I just want everything to stop. I’ve got back-up plan after back-up plan, but I’m tripping over the first steps. Can I do this?