Posted on November 15, 2008 - by Lindsey

The All-Consuming Grad School Monster

These days I can barely keep my head on straight.  My classes are much more work-intensive this term than they were last year.  I’m enjoying the material and I feel like I’m learning a lot, but there is so much homework!  It’s exhausting me, especially with two jobs.  I never have any free time anymore, LOL!  I will have one less class next term, and the one class that I have that is particularly time consuming (my advanced marketing class) will be over, so hopefully this will slow down in a couple of weeks once the term is over.

I am still working in the school’s development office as the development intern and the production marketing office as a marketing associate, so I’m really getting a feel for many different aspects of the business.  And I’m also gearing up for applying for internships for next year. To prepare, I reworked my resume (#26 on my 101 in 1001), which it DESPERATELY needed.  I’m pretty satisfied with how it turned out too!

I actually had a sort of phone interview this week with a theatre that I would really like to work with in Atlanta next year, and they’ve asked me to come for a more formal interview in person, probably in January.  I’m also starting to prepare other applications, though I may wait to act on them until this term is over (most of my classmates are waiting until January to start this process, so I am a tad early).

Exciting news came through this week about one of my other classes – we’re going to New York!  My Producing in the Commercial Theatre class will be going to NYC for a week to meet with various different people in the commercial theatre (Broadway) industry – producers, marketers, etc.  We really didn’t think the funding would come through on this, so we are so excited that it’s going to happen!

And once I’m back from that trip, I’ll have just a couple of weeks off from school (but not work) before we start back up again.  I can’t wait until school is over, LOL!