As I said in my last post, I can't wait to visit Anna in the coming weeks. I really hope that we're able to get in a meeting time, because I feel like I'm at a place in my Final Product where her feedback will be more valuable than ever. I definitely want to make serious headway in designing my pamphlet this long weekend, with the (possibly ambitious) goal of having it ready to print in two weeks. But that being said, I would like to show it to Anna before making changes, and I still want to get an FAQ section through meeting at Mosaic, so a lot of it will be up to when I can work out times for me to go in. Aside from the progression of my Final Product, I also feel like Final Presentation Night is approaching sooner than I thought. I need to make sure I get invitations ordered this week, because it seems like these deadlines are getting closer and closer. I've been sitting in AP classes all year and now in the span of a few weeks, it's truly hitting me about how close the AP tests (and Final Presentation Night!) actually are. I guess I should just take all the approaching deadlines as a wake-up call to push this final stretch of the year through working as hard as I can!
At this point, I've gotten a little concerned about where I'm currently at with my Final Product. I am definitely making some headway, it's just so overwhelming to know that I have hours and hours of work on the horizon, and I have to find a way to get there. I'm confident that with good time management and prioritizing my work in school, everything will get back on schedule, but I definitely had to rework some of my calendar deadlines for the Product Progress Report due this Monday to keep everything accurate. Aside from that, I haven't seen Anna in a few weeks. Spring Break wasn't good for me, because I was out of town for most of it and she was out of town last week. I tried to work in a time for me to come this week, but she's busy during all the times that I could drive down, so it seems like my Final Product might be a little delayed in some portions because I really want to get in-person feedback on what I have. I think from here I just need to polish all of my research and get my pamphlet as put-together as possible for the next time I see Anna. I know she'll be able to give me a lot of feedback, and I'm really excited for then!
Today is the first day back from Spring Break, and it's been a great week! As usual, it's always hard for me to come back after breaks, especially ones this late in the year. The closer we get to AP tests and my Final Product being due, the more I realize that this year is farther from being over than I was hoping. Or, rather, it's close to being over, but there's still a lot of work to be done over the next couple of months. I wish I could say I worked more on my Final Product over the break than I actually did. Between being out of town for four days and spending time with my family who have been on break from college, I didn't dedicate much time to ISM, or any of my school work. I think in this next week I really need to get down to business drafting my pamphlet, because I want to send Anna a rough as quickly as possible. I know that the sooner I can get some concrete work done, the more in-depth feedback I will be able to receive and apply. Hopefully I get get a lot of work done in class as well, because I don't have that much to be worried about in other classes just coming back from the break. As a whole, though, it was a great week!
This week I had another mentor visit with Anna. It's actually been a week since I've seen her, because last week the rain and schedule conflicts just didn't work out, so I never had the opportunity to drive down. I sat in on a meeting that she had with all of the other lawyers at Mosaic, and I really liked getting to see how she interacted with her colleagues. I think sometimes I get so wrapped up in thinking that the mentorship is largely just a vehicle for finishing my Final Product, that I forget the value of being able to see the dynamics of nonprofit lawyers working together on a day-t0-day basis. I was so happy to get this opportunity because meetings like this are what I really wanted to get out of ISM in the first place, and I'm so grateful to be getting the chance. We also talked on the phone on Friday about how the program has been going so far for me. Anna wanted to be sure that I understood the value of the meetings that I had been sitting in on, and I assured her that I had been getting something out of every single one of them. It was another great week that I really took to heart why I was so glad to be in this program again.
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