Summertime and the living is... hot!

So guys, this is what my summer has come down to, blogging. :) I know all of you anxious readers have just been hoping and praying that I would update on my summer adventures so here I am, making all your blogging dreams come true!

As I had talked about, I had been looking for a (paid) summer internship and I had thought I'd found one, but alas the Friday before I started they let me know that not only could have me in for 6 hours each week but they wouldn't be paying me either, because of my financial situation I declined their offer and started looking for another position. All the while I had been planning on working for the school nurse, Laina Smith, in the Student Health Services office. The plan had been to work in exchange for a room for the summer, but that supposedly violates the Fair Labor Standards Act, so I'm also getting paid, which is helping out with that pesky money thing. I had also applied to work for Dr. Moorman and Dr. LeVan for the Computer Science Summer Academic Camps, and they had offered me the job so that's three weeks of full time work, our first camp was actually last week.

This camp was an introduction to computer programming, for incoming 8th-12th graders. This was our only overnight camp and I'm thankful because anyone out there that has children, siblings, or even knows of anyone in this age group knows how much work we had in front of us. Oh yeah, there's one more thing, out of the 27 campers, we had one girl. Needless to say we had to work from the time we woke up, 7 AM, to the time we taped their doors at night, 11 PM. I don't think I've ever slept so soundly before in my life. The day was full of both academic and recreation sessions, all but one of which all three counselors had to be present for, but it was fun to talk with the kids and help some people see a side of computers they hadn't ever thought about before. Next week we start our first week of Day Camps for middle schoolers, and that will be Lego Robots, so that should be fun. :)

Dr. Moorman and some of the guys at the Intro Camp

Another cool thing about living on campus is that I get to hear about all the research that my friends are doing with their professors, which some people may have thought didn't happen at a school like Transy because our professors aren't here to research they are here to teach and because they like teaching. But I guess in the summer they are given an opportunity to work with students to share in research. I'll have to ask around about some of the projects and get back to you on that.

I hope that you guys are having a good summer so far, going on adventures or working to save money for college. :)