Master's degree to do what?!

So given my second week in International Programming at Cardinal Stritch University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin I started to wonder about my "specialized training", nevermind the upcoming 50 years of student loans which need to be paid back and whether I had been prepared adequately for my current job!?...

The first day at work I could be found allocating 200 Pointsettias around the institution (international programming fundraiser) and last nite I was producing hundreds of flapjacks and waffles in the university cafeteria together with staff/administration under the umbrella of student development (middle of final exams student midnite pancake feed) Clearly, these are skills I picked up through $20,000+ worth of SIT classes last year ;-)

Yet seriously, I have some rocking work on my plate including an upcoming Alternative Spring Break program to Paris, meeting study abroad partners in England, supporting an academic intensive Fair Trade program with Alterra Coffee in Mexico, and enough study abroad development issues and local Wisconsin consortium research/partnering that I actually wonder where exactly to start...!

And it continues to be a small world... today I met with a colleague who works at a local institution and who is the father of an undergraduate classmate from UW Eau Claire with whom I previously enjoyed a semester abroad in Rosenheim, Germany together.

Further Brewcity Adventures await...