I'm about to wrap up the first year with the St Leo MSW online and it was tough.
There is now the internship / field practicum process. I will have work PRN at my current job (this is not what I was expecting at all) and will not get the internship assignment that I had hoped for. Big disappointment.
This first internship begins at the end of August and I have nothing lined up. It is still in process. I suppose my liaison has this down to a science but I find it a little frustrating. Background checks, interviews, etc take time and the agency - where ever I do end up interning - has to have time to make their decisions. This just seems a little too down-to-the-wire for my comfort.
In the third year, the second practicum will be done. I will definitely be way ahead of the ball then - as I want to make sure that I intern in a field that I eventually work in later.