Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Social work at York University
Here's a link to an online article about Masters of Social Work students at York University. It's called MSW students promote social change and I'm one of the students featured!
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
having cats can be a nice distraction from BOREDOM
I never EVER thought I would catch myself, in the middle of my Masters degree, saying that I'm bored out of my tree.
But that's what I'm saying.
The short version of the story is: The degree is designed so that students do the majority of their coursework in the fall, and then they work more independently in the winter doing a) a research project and b) a work placement. The research project requires ethics approval from the university, which usually comes through in late January/early February. I received my ethics approval about 2 weeks ago and have begun to contact participants to schedule interviews etc. Exciting...but no great rush. As long as I'm done my interviews by the end of March all should be well.
The big frustration has been that my work placement completely fell through....twice...before I even got started. The majority of my colleagues started in the second week of January, so I am more than a month behind them in terms of getting my 400 hours done. Sigh. And, there's nothing I could have done about it. I spent the entire month of January waiting for the school and the agency where I was supposed to work to get their act together...which never happened. We officially pulled the plug on that arrangement at the end of Jan, and then I started calling around to see if anyone else would take me on (in a hurry). The good news is, I have secured another placement, but am still waiting to actually start.
So, in the absence of deadlines and stress, I am being pleasantly distracted by my 2 new cats! I'd like to introduce them to the world at large:
This is me with Clarence. He is orange (!) and these days he's sneezing a lot.
This is Owen. He is super skinny and he talks a lot - especially when he's in the litter box.
The blue sky is inviting me out to play...a rare experience this winter. I'm going for a walk before it gets dark!
But that's what I'm saying.
The short version of the story is: The degree is designed so that students do the majority of their coursework in the fall, and then they work more independently in the winter doing a) a research project and b) a work placement. The research project requires ethics approval from the university, which usually comes through in late January/early February. I received my ethics approval about 2 weeks ago and have begun to contact participants to schedule interviews etc. Exciting...but no great rush. As long as I'm done my interviews by the end of March all should be well.
The big frustration has been that my work placement completely fell through....twice...before I even got started. The majority of my colleagues started in the second week of January, so I am more than a month behind them in terms of getting my 400 hours done. Sigh. And, there's nothing I could have done about it. I spent the entire month of January waiting for the school and the agency where I was supposed to work to get their act together...which never happened. We officially pulled the plug on that arrangement at the end of Jan, and then I started calling around to see if anyone else would take me on (in a hurry). The good news is, I have secured another placement, but am still waiting to actually start.
So, in the absence of deadlines and stress, I am being pleasantly distracted by my 2 new cats! I'd like to introduce them to the world at large:
This is me with Clarence. He is orange (!) and these days he's sneezing a lot.
This is Owen. He is super skinny and he talks a lot - especially when he's in the litter box.
The blue sky is inviting me out to play...a rare experience this winter. I'm going for a walk before it gets dark!
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