Cocoa getting into the Christmas spiritWell, it's official. I am 1/4 done with my Master's degree. For the most part everything went well during my first semester. It was definitely a learning experience, and as much as I may complain about the long hours spent studying and writing, and the headache that is group projects, I am very happy to be studying what I love and learning something new all the time.
It is time to start looking for a summer internship, a requirement of my program. When I did an internship at EMU I completed 350 hours, unpaid - and I had to pay for 9 credit hours of course work to get the credit for graduation. Luckily in my UM SPH program most students find paid internships, and we don't have to take any classes to coincide with the requirement. In fact, we can reduce our credit hour requirement for graduation by 1-3 hours depending on the number of internship hours completed.
Dinner I made at my Mom's on Christmas
I am spending today recovering from 3 days of Christmas. On Christmas Eve we drove up to Caro for the Tinsey Christmas. Mimosas were sipped, ping-pong was played, and a good time was had by all. Christmas morning Matt and I had breakfast with his family and opened gifts. The we went to my Mom's where I made lasagna from scratch for dinner, and many crossword puzzles were solved. We then went back to Matt's house to watch a movie and hang out with Melissa, Josh, Jess and Angie. The day after Christmas I pried my way in to my frozen car at 7:30am to make it to work at 9am in Ann Arbor, worked til 3, then at 4 the VanCamp Christmas started back in Ortonville. After an evening of alcohol, apples to apples and a white elephant style DVD exchange, it was time to pronounce the Christmas of 2009 complete.
Jon being a lush.
Hey -- congrats on being 1/4 done! Me too! If you find an internship in NYC (I don't even know if you are interested) you can stay in our place - no one will be there over the summer.
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