The beginning of our internship process.

Jesse will be starting his final "school" year of graduate school in a few weeks! This poor guy has been in school since he was 5!!! He just turned 26... that is 21 years of school!! Can you imagine?!?

Right now we are in the process of finding an internship site that he will work at next year (August/September). He will get paid at this internship site!!! This is how finding an internship site works. You pick 15 sites to apply to. Yup, that is correct, 15 essays! What are the chances that each application is going to want the same essay topic!!

They call you if they are interest and you set up an interview. After the interview you rate that site on how well you liked it and the site rates you!! After everyone (in the U.S.) has complete this part. A computer, that I believe is located in Canada, matches everyone according to how you rated the site and how the site rated you. (If both are rated the same there is a good chance you will get it.)

Sometime in February (I don't know the exact day, but Jesse does) we will get an e-mail that says you have been placed at a site. There is a slight chance that you didn't match with any of your sites! If that happens then you get what ever is left over. You don't get to pick at this point - you get what is handed to you.

After you get the e-mail that tells you if you have been placed another e-mail will follow (I can't remember how long afterwards) that tells you where you are going!!

They don't know it yet, but I will be incharge of the computer in Canada this year!!! And everyone in our PsyD program is going to their 1st pick!! You're all welcome!!

We really want to get back to the mid-west to be closer to our families. So, we have only been looking at sites in that area. Our ideal plan is for Jesse to get placed at the prison system in Minnesota. After that, then he would work at the Stanley Prison and they will pay back some of your student loans!! And, you have great benefits. And, we are very close to family!! He would have to sign on to work there for a few years (maybe 4) but those 4 years would be worth it for them to pay back loans! Remember this is just our dream.

Here are the 15 cities that we are applying to in order of our preference: Rochester, MN; Madison, WI; Appleton, WI; Racine,WI; Mason City, IA; Hibbing, MN; Duluth, MN; Weaton, IL; Wales, WI; Waterford, WI; Chicago, IL; Milwaukee, WI; St Paul, MN; Oakdale, MN; and Minneapolis, MN.

I guess this is all I have to say right now about the internship process. I will keep you posted if anything new and exciting comes up!