It was really rough. They come in the first day of Basics and say "hey, you're in this service region. This are the possible facilites you could be assigned after graduation. We will come to you 10 Class days before final evals with a list of facilities you will be offered". Cue 4 Months of at times daily speculation over where we would end up.
Then they came in
3 DAYS before we had our evals, and said "Here is your list. Except this list is worthless because if anybody fails, their spot will be taken off the list. So really you don't have any idea where you will end up until your entire region is done with evals".
Evals are done, hooray! I passed! Next day, show up and sign the paperwork for my center while a manager from HR is laughing about how awesome the center that is 15 minutes from my house is and how amazing that area is, and how great a career I could have there. But, its not on the list that they are offering. Its really a horrible process for the students that go through it...I picked on a Wednesday and was asked to report to work in a facility in a city I had never been to, where I had no housing, on that Friday. Theres still people living in hotels paying upwards of 4k to have a place to stay until theres vacant apartments in the safe side of town.
Definitely happy I passed, and happy with where I ended up, but man. The whole process of getting a location was just so stressful and not fun. At the end, I didn't even have a choice because with the limited amount of people that passed in my region, we only had one choice. Its just frustrating knowing that in 2 weeks, some kid that has no interest in going to the center that is 15 minutes from my house will be forced to go there, while I was willingly volunteering to go. Oh well! I guess I ended up where Im at for a reason!! Back to Map Study