Had another meeting with career advisor a few hours ago. It was not bad, what with talking about making connections with people in the fields of my interest and thinking of whether computer science or CIS is better for me (shocking: they are about evenly matched, in a way). I have a plan—a list of things to do—written out here. Hopefully I will get on with it and do more things than what I usually do.
Right now, I am not sure about how to make phone calls. My advisor—oh, for crying out loud, let’s call her Stacy for the sake of convenience (I will henceforth call her Stacy throughout the blog, as I know no other Stacys)—wants to keep calling people over the phone as a practice to real-life situations; she tells me that it would be better for me to do so right now to get used to it, than for me to get out into the real world just to fail because I have not had any experiences with phone calls. She is right—I should begin giving phone calls. How about making myself more comfortable with talking first? I know that I have made some mistakes over the past, and much would have been remedied if I had better conversational skills. And I had better build up those skills and practice pronunciations quickly, too; Stacy went ahead and contacted a bunch of alumni with computer science and CIS majors.
I have so much things to do, and that is not counting the job hunt. Amazing.
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