An Introduction: This Blog & Myself

Hi and thank you for taking a few moments of your day to stop by my blog. To introduce myself (without introducing myself), I am currently a graduate student that is reaching across disciplines to accomplish her dream of becoming an Industrial and Organizational psychologist. Inspirational, right? Well, if you really knew my personality you would know my actions are not speaking that loudly. That, however, can take up a whole other post.

In order to go to school, I relocated to my original childhood home in the midwest. Some free advice: Never go back home after college. Wait about ten years, that way the popular people will have gotten fat and had babies. And the no-lives will have drunk themselves into early short term memory loss, so they won't notice you fast enough at the grocery store and you can slip away. I was home for a semester after I graduated and hated it. (End of tangent) ...I am currently working part-time, which sucks - majorly. However, with my motivation I'm not sure if I could handle a full-time position. Definately not with my piss poor sleeping patterns. (Once again that could be a whole other post by itself)

With this blog, I would like to share some of my successes and failures as I try to work towards a career. A career in what is starting to become less specific the more I look at my bank account. I know I am rambling, however, at least for the first few posts I will write in this less structured manor. I find it to be less restricting and in writing a blog, I would hope that you would appreciate the writer being comfortable.

I will end this post here. But to give you some directional scope of how I would structure this blog, here are some of the topics that are immediately coming to mind for some posts:

• Networking (various aspects)
• Bonding with older classmates: The new type of student
• Becoming accustomed to different cultures: Where are you?
• How to advocate for yourself: Professionally
• How to advocate for yourself: Personally
• Getting lost in a different world: Crossing disciplines
• Who wants me: Getting companies to create a need for you
• What qualifies as work experience: Getting the professional student a job
• Sleeping away success: Breaking bad habits before you get the job
• Time management: Prioritizing who you can do without

I might not use those exact titles, but just to give a general description. Now, be warned since I am in academia there may be references or links to articles or other sites, which can be helpful if you're going through similar situations or if you would just like some more information.

Thanks for stopping by,

NJ