The next couple of weeks will be a blessing and a curse. In the seventh week and before I start to make plans for after the fellowship is over, the blessing is I will have a well-deserved break in between gigs. I am also finishing my projects at the organization and plan to return and volunteer after the summer. The curse is finding a permanent job because the department would hold my job. I am so grateful for the experience of being a summer fellow, but the uncertainty after is what gets me. The other factor is I have a few more classes to graduate, so I still need to finish school. Connecting professionally is much more complicated than it seems. Coordinating schedules for events, campaigning for donations, and getting doctor’s offices to respond promptly requires persistence and focus. I would like to say businesses and organizations respond to emails quickly, but that they don’t and sometimes do not respond at all. That has been challenging because part of the job was to recruit volunteers, get organizations or people to participate in activities with us, and to organizations and businesses to partner with us. The business-to-business connections have been extremely difficult because they usually have someone not on-site or unavailable. These are little things that I can help with after the fellowship has technically ended. Overall, I am glad I got this experience and looking forward to seeing what I can do with it. It is not goodbye, it is, I will see you later. Just not every day.