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So this last week I wasn't able to come to class because I was down in Wichita, Kansas interviewing for an internship. While in the St. Louis airport waiting for my connecting flight I decided to stop at the Chilies right across from my gate to catch lunch. I'm not a huge fan of eating in restaurants by myself, but I really didn't have a choice. While waiting to be seated the guy at the bar waved me over to sit at the bar. Right away I knew he didn't think I was over 16 years old, which if you have never experienced someone thinking you are still in high school it's awkward... He started calling me "honey"....a lot. When I told him where I was going and what I was doing there I saw the surprise on his face when I told him I was interviewing with Cargill. And then he asked me how old I was....
While this is happening I'm thinking to myself that I don't think I look that young! This time next year I will be interviewing for a full-time job, getting married, and buying a house. I am an adult. When did this happen?
I guess what I learned from this experience is to at all times treat my students next year as adults. I was a little upset and uncomfortable when I was at Chilies and the bartender made me feel 5 years younger than I am.
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That is awesome that you had an interview with Cargill!!! I hope it went great! I like how you related this experience back to class. Treating the students as adults will be at the top of my list for next year as well!
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Congrats on the interview however you set my group short in class, however I think we did alright. I can relate in a way similar to yours. I have a brother that is a little more than a year younger than me and people could never keep us straight to begin with but now I would think it would be different and yet when somebody thinks I am him I question myself because I think I have grown and personally show myself differently, so I can see the potential problems that can arise with this type of situation.
ReplyDeleteCongrats on the interview! And I know how you feel about being seen as younger than you are. It really will be important to treat our students as adults. We know how annoying it can be when others think and treat us younger than what we are, so it's something that we will need to work on and make sure not to do to our own students.
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I hope the interview went great!! My roommate had a summer internship at Cargill in Wichita in their IT department this past summer. He really seemed to enjoy everything, Cargill and the city. I always have the opposite happen to me all the time. People tend to think I am much older than what I really am. I would like to think it's just because I am more mature than most people my age, but who knows. For example, during one of the seminar things we had to go to this year we had to work on our "elevator speech." I was in a group of two women that were both seniors. After I gave mine, they thought I was also a senior, and the one thought I could be in graduate school here. There faces were priceless after I told them that I was a 19 year old sophomore. I asked them why they thought I was much older than what I really am, and they said some of the stuff I talked about in my speech and just the way I carried myself and acted seemed unlike a sophomore. I am not saying you are in any way immature. I personally think you look about your age, you definitely don't look like you 15.
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