Sparking Interest

I started this blog because I am taking New Media Technologies as a graduate student at Clark University. My professor wanted us to write a blog about our lives, preferably about the place in which we work professionally or something we are passionate about.

My original plan was to write about the Central MA Convention and Visitors Bureau, the organization where I intern, but after further consideration my plans changed. I was sitting at my internship stuffing envelopes for a last minute push on the release of our Spring/Summer 2012 Visitor Guide thinking about what I was going to write in my blog. Going through the list of things that I do while at my internship in my head, I realized that while useful, my daily tasks are not particularly exciting. All the while, I was having a significant amount of trouble stuffing the envelopes. A task that one would think relaxing and methodic proved to be very difficult for me to accomplish and all I could think was, "good thing I'm getting my master's degree, maybe then I won't have to stuff envelopes for the rest of my life".

Now, this is not meant to be a pretentious blog in the slightest. In fact, looking back on my thoughts while stuffing envelopes, I find them quite amusing. My goal in this blog is to share short clips of my life as an aimless graduate student trying to find my way in the "real world". It is a journal, of sorts, covering a particular period of time in my life that I feel others can relate to and that I will find interesting to write about.

The transition out of the college bubble (as a recent BA graduate from Clark) has been a trying one. I am in the real world now. That is all I keep thinking. What does that mean? Does my attaining a higher education really mean that I won't be stuffing envelopes for the rest of my life? Probably not.