I have now been at Georgia Southern University 2 weeks and the verdict is......I LOVE IT. If you are not familiar with Georgia Southern, it is located in the booming metropolis of Statesboro, GA (I would again like to introduce you to Sarcasm). GSU is home to 18,000 students and Eagle athletics. Statesboro is a small lil town with everything centered around the university. Though there is not too much going on in the 'boro (mirroring my 'boro, home to MTSU) there are many things in the area. Savannah is only 45 minutes, the beach is an hour, Atlanta is still a 3 hour haul, and then parts of Florida are only 2 hours....so some beachin good times will hopefully be had this summer!
During the academic year, I was not the most satisfied with my assistantship experience. I was beginning to question my chosen profession. Luckily, the past two weeks alone have squashed those little dissatisfactions! Not only are the SOAR leaders awesome, the professionals are too. My supervisor is an alum of the HESA program at South Carolina (she graduated in 2007) and has provided me with a great experience thus far. She actually announced her promotion from Coordinator to Assistant Director of Orientation and Parent Programs the day after I arrived in the 'boro...so a search will soon be occurring for the Coordinator position (it made me feel great to "accidentally" overhear a conversation between her and her supervisor saying it was too bad I still had another year of school left...and her suggesting it is not uncommon for students to do grad school from afar...). The orientation office falls under Admissions at GSU...and all of the Admissions recruiters and Admissions staff have been extremely welcoming and friendly over the past few weeks. Although, one decided to tell me I look like the 4th Jonas Brother (which reminded I had been compared to David Archuleto by a parent at Orientation last summer and compared to Zach Efron the summer before. Awesome). There is also a girl two years ahead of me who graduated from MTSU, the HESA program at South Carolina, and works in the Leadership office at Georgia Southern...so I apparently am stalking her. Crazy.
The SOAR Leaders (Orientation Leaders) have to be my favorite part of my internship. SOAR is a very well respected office on campus and recruit the best of the best for the SOAR Leader positions. There are 23 (21 new timers, and 2 returners who are "in charge"), all amazing. I have been in training with them for the past two weeks...and will be training this week as well...then its our first session on June 1! They even made this awesome video...a parody of "Im on a Boat" to talk about their Bus system, "Im on a Bus":
http://www.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=1106192571398&ref=share
I was able to get back to Columbia for a night to hang out with some peeps during this long weekend. But anywho, its a full week ahead, so Im outta here!
