<p>hops scout
S learned much during his stint with minor league ball last summer…did everything in a 12-14 hr day from running tarp to manning the ticket windows to customer service to kids events,etc.Invaluable experience and to be sure, everyone in the sports business has had that first experience so they know firsthand what you’ve been doing!
Prepare those cover letters and watch the postings on teamworkonline.com!!</p>
<p>BC may have read it as: you are very happy about the fact that some people can’t stand you.</p>
<p>:)</p>
<p>DS will be returning in about 3 weeks. While communication with him has been slim (after disappearing for about 2 weeks, he has returned to responding to emails and posting in his on-line journal once a week or so), his recent posts say he feels accomplished. I’m so pleased he seems to be taking in Japanese culture. Last week he posted that he’d bought himself a cotton kimono called a Yugata(sp?) which he wore to view fireworks with co-workers. Apparently one wears a kimono to see fireworks in Japan. The thought that my “I’d rather die than shop” son who only wears t-shirts & jeans here in the U.S., bought a kimono and wore it for a day in Tokyo, has kept me smiling for more than a week now. I’m looking forward to hearing more details about his internship when he returns. His project shifted from research to doing some programing and I’m curious to know why but all in all he seems very pleased with the work he’s done. I’ll also be anxious to learn whether or not this internship could lead to a job - I understand the company DS is working for is looking to expand worldwide and may be offering jobs (but I’m not sure if that is just for the other interns who are all working on their MBAs while DS will finish up his undergrad this year). I’ll also be interested in hearing from DS if he enjoyed working and whether or not this has changed his view on grad school. Before he left, he hadn’t expressed any interest in grad school. Has doing an internship changed anyone’s S or D’s views on grad school?</p>
<p>cathymee, when the front office staff comes out to the field bare foot is when we head to the clubhouse ;)</p>
<p>I was kind of expecting to be pulling tarp this summer, but the only time I’ve touched a tarp is when we were running off the field one night in the pouring rain! ;)</p>
<p>I get to avoid all the headaches that come with dealing with the public as far as the operations of the stadium go. I am in the clubhouse and in the dugout so I get to deal with players instead. Let me just say it starts to get annoying when kids come down wanting autographs 10x during a game! Or a baseball. When I’m in the dugout, I do my best to ignore them but sometimes it just doesn’t happen. </p>
<p>It’s a great experience and if anybody is interested in getting into pro sports, I would suggest finding a minor league baseball team!</p>
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<p>As the parent of a child who couldn’t get an internship and spends nights lying awake wondering how she’ll ever get a real job, I read it as people like me are horribly jealous and really can’t stand to hear you talk about it anymore. 
YMMV</p>
<p>You got it in one, HBM. </p>
<p>In all seriousness, I feel like D has won the lottery at least twice. She had a “lights out” spectacular experience as an undergrad—“fit” may not matter for some students but it absolutely does for others—and I’d be hard pressed to figure out how her four years could have been optimized any more for her development. The thing with the job—one applied for, one offer taken, and, again, a spectacular fit—almost unnerves me.</p>
<p>But four years of me nagging her on various subjects, several years of me scouring information on CC, and eight years of her relentlessly busting her butt in hs and college certainly paid off.</p>
<p>I’m on tiptoes as the Great Wheel turns.</p>
<p>If you can’t jump up and down and yell wonderful things on CC, there’s no use to be participate on CC. </p>
<p>CC is the only place I can brag anonymously and worry about annoying others. </p>
<p>Congratulations. We hope that next years internships will be more plentiful and rewarding.</p>
<p>Don’t mind me, I’ve been a little tired the past week.</p>
<p>I do enjoy reading about the successes here.</p>
<p>If you need to moan and groan about the state of current and future, then CC is also the place to commiserate. You can always find someone with the same shoe size.</p>
<p>Son is home now and he looks more relaxed now playing a video game. It was an uneventful drive back home but he has lots of pictures and memories. He has three or four weeks to relax before classes start - I assume that he will prepare for the upcoming classes by reading the textbooks ahead of time and I’ll give him a few small open source projects to do. I don’t know whether he will actually do them though.</p>
<p>D is interning in Vermont this summer and will be leaving there in few weeks to go directly back to college - no home time this summer! She has had a great time and it has been a fantastic opportunity for her.</p>
<p>Well, my “internship” was more of a job, and they are both continuing into next semester, but…</p>
<p>Paid RAship went well: My first peer-reviewed article is almost in-press! Yay!!! 
We’ve made good headway on two other papers and will hopefully get them out soon, and we’re starting on a forth. Also, I successfully defend my thesis prospectus and received IRB approval.</p>
<p>Other project at another U (on which I am the Principle Investigator): My Co-I is super nice, and she’s been supporting my ambitions and seems to be putting in good words for me around the department (I’m applying to different program in the same department). Our project is ready to be sent off to the IRBs (yep, two of them) for approval.</p>
<p>Other stuff: I’ve gotten some awesome child experience, and I am very happy to learn that I actually like working with kids, as aggravating as they can be at times (I never thought I’d say, “If you put any more tape on your face, I’m going to take it away from you”). I love the Tests and Assesment class I’m taking online as well.</p>
<p>Not-so-great stuff: One of our projects ended up being much more time-consuming and headache-inducing than imagined, and we didn’t get one of the grants we applied for. 
Also, a depressing number of my friends’ parents have died this summer. :(</p>