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This is my Official Intro. I already spouted off elsewhere without first introducing myself. I actually have manners. I just don’t always know where I left them.
(Warning: You are now entering The Michele Zone. Please bring your sense of humor.)
The name is Michele. (I bet you guessed that.) I am still a college student but I will probably be launching my own business -- any minute now -- rather than getting a boring old job with a nice steady, secure paycheck. Sort of like that Chinese Curse: May you live in Interesting Times.
My academic background includes an AA in Humanities and a Certificate in GIS. I will soon complete my Bachelor’s in Environmental Resource Management with a Concentration in Land Use Planning and Policy. I have also picked out the college where I intend to get my Master’s in Planning and Development Studies.
I do not have a business yet, but I do have a business card, a website, and some ‘customers’. I have traded skills with a friend who has been hosting my website on her business’ website (as well as doing the design and webmistressing). I recently designed a brochure for her, tweaked her logo, and critiqued her catalog so she could improve it.
I also have been doing pro bono consulting work for a homeless shelter where I did an internship last year. I am nearly done automating their paperwork system to the degree they desire, except for this little detail of designing a database for them. I have been saving that baby for last and hope to begin wrestling it to the ground sometime real soon. lol.
On top of that, I do pro bono consulting concerning environmental and planning issues for a friend who is basically a full time political activist in New Mexico. I have ‘fed’ her information and resources, given her a strategy based on economic analysis and legal standing and will be helping her lay the ground work for their newly minted official planning organization so they can do economic development as part of their overall aim of protecting an underprivileged neighborhood that has, historically, suffered enormously from social injustices.
Additionally, there is all that research I have done concerning the rail plan in my county. I put my school project up on my website, listed the url in a brochure I designed, and then handed it out to a few planners and other folks in my county. As I understand it, a lot of planners (and other folks) are not happy with the existing plan and have argued against it kind of ‘from their gut’ but did not have any hard data to really back them up. I have the research. But I have not yet figured out how to really get the word out that there exists many thousands of dollars of research done by a college student (moi) across 4 different classes (including 2 of my GIS classes) available for use by the local planners. (Any suggestions would be welcome.)
I am looking forward to joining in, biting off more than I can chew, sticking both feet in my mouth, and other rituals of being the latest newbie.
(Warning: You are now entering The Michele Zone. Please bring your sense of humor.)
The name is Michele. (I bet you guessed that.) I am still a college student but I will probably be launching my own business -- any minute now -- rather than getting a boring old job with a nice steady, secure paycheck. Sort of like that Chinese Curse: May you live in Interesting Times.
My academic background includes an AA in Humanities and a Certificate in GIS. I will soon complete my Bachelor’s in Environmental Resource Management with a Concentration in Land Use Planning and Policy. I have also picked out the college where I intend to get my Master’s in Planning and Development Studies.
I do not have a business yet, but I do have a business card, a website, and some ‘customers’. I have traded skills with a friend who has been hosting my website on her business’ website (as well as doing the design and webmistressing). I recently designed a brochure for her, tweaked her logo, and critiqued her catalog so she could improve it.
I also have been doing pro bono consulting work for a homeless shelter where I did an internship last year. I am nearly done automating their paperwork system to the degree they desire, except for this little detail of designing a database for them. I have been saving that baby for last and hope to begin wrestling it to the ground sometime real soon. lol.
On top of that, I do pro bono consulting concerning environmental and planning issues for a friend who is basically a full time political activist in New Mexico. I have ‘fed’ her information and resources, given her a strategy based on economic analysis and legal standing and will be helping her lay the ground work for their newly minted official planning organization so they can do economic development as part of their overall aim of protecting an underprivileged neighborhood that has, historically, suffered enormously from social injustices.
Additionally, there is all that research I have done concerning the rail plan in my county. I put my school project up on my website, listed the url in a brochure I designed, and then handed it out to a few planners and other folks in my county. As I understand it, a lot of planners (and other folks) are not happy with the existing plan and have argued against it kind of ‘from their gut’ but did not have any hard data to really back them up. I have the research. But I have not yet figured out how to really get the word out that there exists many thousands of dollars of research done by a college student (moi) across 4 different classes (including 2 of my GIS classes) available for use by the local planners. (Any suggestions would be welcome.)
I am looking forward to joining in, biting off more than I can chew, sticking both feet in my mouth, and other rituals of being the latest newbie.