Meghan Hansen - a portfolio
A Short Biography
I was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba in the summer of 1981, and spent my childhood and youth there. As a student in the French Immersion school system, I graduated from Collège Jeanne-Sauvé, the first school to be named for Canada's first female Governor General. I went on to study French Literature and Philosophy at the University of Winnipeg.
During my time studying at the University of Winnipeg, I got the chance to work at the greatest summer job a Canadian student could ever have: I worked as a tour guide on Parliament Hill in Ottawa. I also had the opportunity to participate in a study-year exchange program at the Université de Perpignan, in Perpignan, France a city on the French Mediterranean coast just north of the Spanish Border.
After receiving my B.A. (Hons) degree in June 2005, I took two years away from the world of academia, during which I did contract work for Agriculture and Agri-food Canada's Prairie Farm Rehabilitation Administration office in Winnipeg (working on their library- which is amusing in retrospect) and worked for two seasons in the Disability Tax Credit and Processing Review Sections of the Canada Revenue Agency.
In 2007, I was accepted to McGill's Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, which changed its name to the School of Information Studies before the incoming cohort of students arrived in September. I am currently in my second and final year of studies at this institution and intend to graduate in May 2009.
My online presence
I am not, nor have I ever been, a Membership and Fund Development Associate at the NAFC, a Wedding Planner and MaryKay consultant in Portland, a dentist in Minneapolis, or any kind of collegiate athlete. (These are all results that come up when searching my name in Google).
I do, however, have an online presence on the following web sites:
A Note on my interests and passions
I am passionate about the things I love. For example, I love Winnipeg. I know a lot of people don't, and will never, understand this. That's okay. It's one of the best cities on earth, but you can't quite understand why until you've lived there for a year or two. If you ever do make it, don't let our self-deprecating humour colour your visit. We can complain with the best of them, but Winnipeggers are the friendliest people in the friendliest province in Confederation. Our (old) slogan was right. And I won't bother you with my opinion of the new one, and the money that was spent in choosing it.
I also love watching curling on tv (it's an inherited trait), certain kinds of music- especially participating in the making of this music, and being an active participant in community life. I try to concentrate my personal energies into one or a few specific areas instead of spreading my interests around. Hence, I have only been involved in two student organizations during my studies- but I have been an active participant in them from the first month I joined.
This being said, please forgive me if I go on at length about these things that I love. Most of them are mentioned within the few pages of this web site.