The Job

People have been asking what my work is, so I'll explain, maybe.

I work at Wayne State College now, in the Admissions office, which really means I have a little desk set up in the basement all by myself, with two computers to do my work. I only work part time, but I try to get 30+ hours a week so I can save all of it :P My job is to work with the Admissions office software, called EMAS Recruitment Pro. They've had this software for 5 years, but hadn't been utilizing it the best, that's what I'm supposed to help them do. EMAS keeps track of prospective students, all the information they could need about them: name, addresses, relations, schools attended, scores, interests... And just recently we added an online element, now prospective students can go to a site and request information or apply online. We're trying to go paperless...eventually. So I set up the online portion and help run the software, keep everything updated and clean and help when there are problems or new ideas or projects.

Sometimes I have way too much downtime because there's not a lot going on. Sometimes I have a ton of things to do. Right now we're working on entering in 51,000 high schools...by hand! We can't load them into the system because of records we already have in there, so that's a good time consuming job for me. Except sometimes I get into doing that all day that I don't really do anything else!

It works, for now :)

Apple pie! Apple cider! Apple cobbler! Apple anything!

This last weekend I went to an apple festival 3 miles south of Sioux Falls, SD to do some apple picking. It was my first time picking apples, and when I told mom about it she wanted some so she could make pies (yay pie!), so I attempted to find the best apples I could for her and there were plenty to pick from! And no I didn't pick any off the ground, I just tried not to trip on all of them :)