I went over to the Hodel Library today to interview a couple of work study students for a story I'm writing and came away really impressed. It wasn't just the fact that one of them is only 17 and the other is 18, or that they were both working on their associate's degrees in science to become veterinarians or that they were both really smart. It was all those things. It kind of blew me away watching these students help a patron, another student who was slightly older--shall we say--figure out how to format a graph to best display some complex data she had collected for a paper. The student workers were quick to help and knew exactly what to do. I wonder if I could have been anywhere close to that cool when I was a work study student.
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- Diana Parker
- I'm in my second year as the College Recruitment Officer, and it's gratifying to see so many of the people I helped get started here in classes and moving toward brighter futures. I'm a true education advocate, having earned a bachelor's degree in English from the University of New Mexico and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from the University of Utah. I've also worked in public relations and as a newspaper reporter and a librarian.
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Work study students are cool
I went over to the Hodel Library today to interview a couple of work study students for a story I'm writing and came away really impressed. It wasn't just the fact that one of them is only 17 and the other is 18, or that they were both working on their associate's degrees in science to become veterinarians or that they were both really smart. It was all those things. It kind of blew me away watching these students help a patron, another student who was slightly older--shall we say--figure out how to format a graph to best display some complex data she had collected for a paper. The student workers were quick to help and knew exactly what to do. I wonder if I could have been anywhere close to that cool when I was a work study student.
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