Internship hunt...

Today I began my internship hunt. *sigh* It's like looking for a job, but less "formal" and easier to get than a job. Just as depressing, though. Then again, trying to find a paid internship is pretty darn hard. I mean they exist and they exist in numbers out there, but I'm looking in Monterey and they just don't "jump out."

I sent out one e-mail tonight to ask for a contact e-mail address and I sent out another e-mail saying I'm looking for an internship if the contact still worked at the place I'm looking at. Yeah, unlucky for me, the latter contact has gotten a new job. Bummer. On the other hand, her new job is at the Center for Ocean Solutions which is a partnership between the Monterey Bay Aquarium, Stanford, and Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute so maybe I can get one there? I guess I'm not too worried I won't get an internship for the summer in Monterey. I am concerned, however, that I won't be able to get a PAID internship and I need money for the summer.

In fact, an inflow of cash would be nice now. I applied for a RA here with one of the profs, but I didn't get it. I need to start getting to know one of my profs this quarter because he happens to be one of the senior scientists at one of the places I want to intern at and he works in marine resources and such. It's a field I'm interested in and he looks like a good person to know. I need to start building up letter of recommendation professors. :P

Anywho, we'll see how the internship hunt goes. Ideally, I want a paid internship in a marine related field. Actually, my ideal would be to work with COMPASS (that used to pay at least) and is an interesting organization. My second pick would be the aquarium's Center for the Future of the Oceans since Mike Sutton would be a great person to get to know (he's the director so it's not exactly likely I'd get to know him, but I could at least "toss his name around" a little LoL). My 3rd pick would be hounding someone at the Sanctuary to try and get an internship (I've started looking for names/e-mails of interesting people - no luck so far). They have a "list" of internships already posted, but none are that interesting and the only paid one is a water quality sampling/testing and, honestly, not what I really want to go into and they want you to go from June to November. That won't work. I do wish I had a list of all the environmental organizations on Pacific Street in those suites, though. There's an office for almost everything marine related over there - Surfrider, Nature Conservancy, NOAA Sanctuary Pacific Office, etc.

With that...time to do a little more relaxing. Thursdays I treat like my Friday since, well, it is my Friday. I need to catch up on my econ reading this weekend and I have two assignments due at the end of next week. I guess I'll semi-start the two of them, but they're partner assignments. I should start my research on my mid-term paper for my marine class, though. I think I'm going to do the SF Delta since I had to do a paper on it for my water law class. We'll see, though.