A tip people always give about interviews is to be truthful about what you’re capable of so that they can test you on what you’re capable of and not what you’re not. The problem for me is, I don’t feel like I’m capable of anything?? When I was younger, I would tell people that I was capable of whatever they threw at me, somehow figure it out, and none would be the wiser. But now, it’s a real scramble trying to get my shit together, and it doesn’t always work out.
I disappeared from school for three days for a tech interview! I didn’t tell anybody except for a few friends (my roomie, our friend who we had stay over at our apartment whilst I was gone, and another friend) because I was so nervous and didn’t want to get overhyped. I had never done a tech interview before (or any interview, to be honest… I’ve somehow managed to escape them), so to be flown out for my first one was completely mind-boggling! Before getting this interview, I did a phone interview where I talked about myself for a bit and did two coding challenges. I was so nervous for that phone interview. The guy who was interviewing me told me that he had worked in China for a bit, so when I was telling him about myself, I said that I used to live in China. He asked when, and that was where I stumbled a bit. I couldn’t for the life of me remember which year I had moved to China. When people ask me, I usually just say after 4th grade, but that means nothing to an adult who’s been out of school for years! After a few miscalculations, I arrived at the conclusion that I lived in China from 2006 to 2014. As we continued with the interview, I got more comfortable, but I was still on edge. Which is why I was completely surprised when I got the email about the final round of interviews!
Before this photoshoot, I was shooting in the city with Kat (full blog post here). I had scheduled these shoots back to back on the same day because I just did not have any other time this month. Anyways, before the BMC class of 2018 spring photoshoot officially started, I wanted to warm up and experiment a bit with Kat. Yes, we had just spent the whole morning shooting together, but this was more about figuring out how to work with the environment rather than how to work with the model. I figured that the modeling for this shoot wouldn’t be too complicated or out-there-creative; it would probably mostly be people wanting profiles and pictures with friends.
This year May Day 2017 came on April 30 and we were blessed with beautiful weather. If it had rained like it did last year, then I probably would have stayed at home and slept through it (like last year haha). But it didn’t! Of course, now that I’m living off campus, the experience was a little different. Instead of waking up to May Day gifts from seniors, I told my beloved seniors that all I needed was their love (because that’s true, and because I was too lazy to figure out coordinating gifts and too lazy to carry them back home), and instead of having a strawberries and cream breakfast, I made do with a banana peanut butter chocolate smoothie I made at home. We also made a pit stop at La Colombe for our daily dose of caffeine on our way to campus.
Omg I can’t believe I forgot about getting this blog post up at 10AM EST, but hey I’m only 40 minutes late. Thank goodness I draft these blog posts early. Yesterday was May Day at Bryn Mawr College (yes, May Day arrived on April 30 this year). When I got back home, I watched Criminal Minds whilst editing photos and a vlog. The blog post with the photos will go up on Wednesday, and you can view the vlog here! (And you can view 2015’s May Day vlog here.) I won’t say too much else about it; you’ll have to wait for the blog post!
This past weekend I was at The Blog Connect conference, which was hosted by PHLbloggers at Saxbys Coffee’s HQ! I first heard about The Blog Connect and PHLbloggers as a reader of Amber’s blog Ember + March. Last year (2016) was the first year of The Blog Connect, and Amber was part of the core team who organised it, and also a speaker at the conference, so naturally she shared about it on her blog. Reading the post, I remember thinking, okay I’m going to that next year! I signed up to join the PHLbloggers network after checking out their website and then kept a look out for The Blog Connect 2017. When it came time for PHLbloggers to announce The Blog Connect 2017 and start promoting it, I bought my ticket right away (and got the early bird discount!) before I could talk myself out of it. Something I’ve come to learn about myself is that I will never feel prepared enough (in general) and I will always feel like I can prepare more (in general), so I just need to get a move on and dive head first (in general) (except for in the case of a shallow pool).