Well I have one week left at Indiana University South Bend... It is bittersweet leaving. I am getting lots of thank you emails, congrats on the new job, we will miss you, and of course IUSB won't be the same without you. All those comments make it really hard to leave. In my four years here I was blessed to work with some great students, supportive staff and learned a lot about myself. I hope I have taught others as much as they have taught me, impacted lives and left an imprint and programs in place that will help students even after I have left and no one remembers what's his name... The one no one could say correctly... Yeah that guy.
I have been cleaning my office, writing instructions for all the things I did and trying to wrap up some projects. Its hard going through drawers and reading notes, reviewing old emails, and taking pictures off my wall and from around my computer. Packing up the coloring books I stocked for when I brought Novali to work and taking down all the post-it-notes she put around my office.
It has been approved that I will be hired as adjunct faculty to teach the Alternative Spring Break class trip to Virginia, so I won't be gone just yet... I also am going to help with the Feb 2nd launch of the new IU System MyInvolvement. It is sad that one of my major accomplishments will launch once I am gone... But I am glad I was able to be a part of such a great project.
So anyhow... The countdown is on... Wish me luck in cleaning out the rest of my office.
For those that asked, here is the article from the school paper: IUSB Preface