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I first heard of IT-FITS from a job-posting flyer taped to a door, and I was hired not long after, in October of my first year at Scripps.\u00a0 Excepting my semester abroad, I\u2019ve worked here every since.\u00a0 My experience with IT-FITS and my experience at Scripps cannot be separated.\u00a0 This semester will be my last, both at Scripps and with IT-FITS, because I\u2019m graduating.<\/p>\n
For several reasons, I don\u2019t want to go.<\/p>\n
I want to keep taking classes.\u00a0 I want to stay close to my friends, not have everyone scatter across the country where we can\u2019t get together play board games that take up half the floor.\u00a0 I want to stay with IT-FITS, where I have somehow become the most senior and experienced person on staff without really noticing.\u00a0 I want to keep helping professors with their technical gremlins.<\/p>\n
I don\u2019t want to acknowledge that this \u2013 college and IT-FITS both \u2013 is a safety net, not the real world.<\/p>\n
All the same, IT-FITS will leave me with a number of gifts.\u00a0 I know that professors do not know everything.\u00a0 I know that some people approach computers as old friends, and that others approach them as hostile alien territory, and how best to help both kinds of people.\u00a0 I know how to use InDesign, Photoshop, and that, desperately clutching an instruction manual, I could put together a perfectly functional Dreamweaver website that from the front end looks great but from the back end appears to be held together entirely by virtual duct tape.\u00a0 I know that if I have a choice, I will cheerfully chuck the Dreamweaver handbook out the window and use WordPress instead.<\/p>\n
I appreciate the chance to get to know the IT-FITS team as it has gained and lost members.\u00a0 I love the fact that almost none of us are from technical majors, that nearly everyone has chosen a different foreign language (at one point we had French, Spanish, Chinese, and Japanese, but none of us spoke the same one), that for some reason a disproportionate number of us come from San Diego.\u00a0 It\u2019s utterly hilarious how difficult it is getting all of us and a photographer together to take the group photo every semester.<\/p>\n
Even though I don\u2019t want to, I have to leave.\u00a0 But I will step into the real world as a Scrippsie and an ITA.<\/p>\n
And I will troubleshoot its computer issues.<\/p>\n
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