Get to Know Team Awesome!
Coming to you from the Team Awesome bunker, a profile of one of our amazing graduate assistants.
In the spotlight today: Kailey
- Where are you from and what’s your favorite part about it? I’m from Goodrich, Michigan, which is a small town about 20 minutes outside of Flint (or an hour north of Detroit. What I say depends on if people still look confused when I say Flint). It’s kind of hard to pick a favorite part as I only recently moved out of there, and I am excited to move on to bigger things, but I would say the quietness. My parents live out in the country, and their neighbors are about a 5-10 minute walk away. When you go outside late at night, there is just complete darkness, and complete silence. It’s very peaceful.
- What year in the program are you/what do you hope to do when you leave the iSchool? I’m a first-year student here. When I first got here, I wanted to go into archives and preservation. Now, I want to go into academic librarianship, which would include reference and instruction. I find almost everything interesting, and it would be a great way to hear about all the topics that people are researching and learning about.
- What is your favorite part about working at the Help Desk? Definitely the people. Not only do we have a very supportive, fun team, but I love being immersed in the iSchool community, and talking with all of the students, faculty, and staff that you pass by. I definitely feel like everyone knows me, and there have been several situations where I feel like I’m meeting someone for the first time, and they say “you look really familiar, I see you all the time,” and when I say I work at the Help Desk their eyes light up as they remember, and share how helpful we’ve been in the past.
- Favorite meme:
- If you could live life as an animal, which animal would you choose? Bird
- What’s your (or would be) your go-to karaoke song? Take on Me – no karaoke, but will sing along in the car since I proudly know all the words.
- If there had to be an apocalypse which would you choose-alien invasion or zombie outbreak? Alien invasion – zombies could be someone you know
- What was your most embarrassing teenage phase? Avril Lavigne in Middle school
- Would you rather fight 100 duck-sized horses, or one horse-sized duck? Duck-sized horses
