Winding down and giddying up.

The school year is finally winding down - only 6 days left! And then we'll be off to Chicago and starting our summer jobs in the industry (hopefully). I am excited as I start to organize my summer holidays and appointments (that hair doesn't cut itself). But a part of me is sad.

Next year we will be without the all-knowing second years, we will actually BE the second years. This is a exciting and disturbing thought. (As I think back to how many notes I took in to the ProTools test to record one tiny segment). How could I possibly help someone with their technical difficulties? I'm constantly spelling things wrong  and I still haven't finished my montage. But I'm sure I could show a first year to the washroom. That's something isn't it?

Even though there still remains some things I am unsure about, I did learn a lot this year. I learned how to write an article (so much so that when I was writing an essay I kept thinking I need to add a quote from an actual person to liven it up a bit). I learned how to work a ENG camera (which my eye will be glued to for half the upcoming school year as I film my IPP video documentary). I learned how to edit said footage on the lovely Final Cut Pro, and I learned how to write a proper cover letter. Not to mention an entire PR proposal (another thing I'll have to get used to next year as a PR major).

But it was all a lot of fun. While my friends were studying for biology tests and sketching out architectural projects I was pretending to be an avid caller to BOY TOYZ on an infomercial for a call line specializing in men ready to talk to woman. Or creating a magazine on college life in InDesign. Or making a trade show to promote a fake magazine. These things will stay with me forever. Look at all these good memories of CreComm and we haven't even been to Chicago yet!

But now that we are all said and done the "hazing" period of first year and we've survived, we feel like we deserve to go out in the world and share our expertise this summer. I will be working at the same job at Citizenship and Immigration Canada, which is a great experience and not far off from where I want to be after I graduate. (I hope to be in the public sector doing communications work.) But to kick off our summer in the professional world we had to design a personal profile and a business card. Now we feel professional.