Work, work, work

Hello everyone, I hope you are all doing well. As you can guess from the title of this post I have not done much other than work. Now granted it's a lot of different work, work for internship, work for my class, and work for programming. Although today I should be able to get out and enjoy myself for a bit I'm going to try and see the White House, not the tour today, just take photos of the outside and such. I do plan to sign up for the actual tour, although I'm not sure when yet. I need to think about that. Anyways back to the recap of this week. Internship has been going well, I'm enjoying all the work I am doing. Yesterday I worked on changing the colors of two separate logos for six hours, now if you are wondering what took so long, it's because I had to change the color pixel by pixel in Microsoft Paint. When I went to bed last night as I closed my eyes I still saw the pixels and that red color I was changing them into. So as you can guess I was really focused on the project, considering the image was burned into my mind.

Well programming is not too stressful, it's mostly just getting all the pieces of the portfolio done on time. Luckily I do not have anything due this week. That's because this coming week I have to go learn how to make a resume and cover letter, I don't mind the cover letter part because I have never really learned that, mostly just taught myself. As for the resume, well I find that kind of redundant considering we needed a resume to apply to the Washington Center, and because I learned how to make one from my Dad. My Dad is a very successful man, I trust his judgement on how to make a resume, among other things. Yet, I will still go to the meeting for the resume thing for two reasons, one it is required to go, and two who knows I might learn something. That's all really for programming, although next Friday I get to go to the National Wheelchair Games with my civic engagement group, it's a part of programming. Everyone needs to be involved in a civic engagement group. Mine is the Veterans group, so we are volunteering with the wheelchair games because a good number of the participants are veterans. We also have had a few speakers already related to veteran stuff, one was part of the Student Veterans of America, another was a veteran who got a medical discharge and talked to us about his experiences with healthcare and the military. And we are having another woman come talk to us in a few weeks who runs a homeless shelter for female veterans.

Class is not really stressful either, mostly it's just a lot of reading. I am getting a take home midterm this coming week, which should not be too bad, I mean it's just on the reading and our class lectures. So I think that I am prepared, although I do need to finish the book, which is only about 3 more chapters. I should not have a problem finishing those before Tuesday. Other than that class is mostly group work through discussions and such. I actually enjoy the discussions though because this class is filled with people who are involved and want to learn. It is a nice change of pace, because a good percentage of the time I am the only person really excited about class and learning. Ah well it happens. Other than that not too much happened this past week, mostly just wanted to get as much done as I could so I could go out and explore again this weekend. So I am off to do some grocery shopping and then later this afternoon....the White House!