Internship Reflection

My experience as an intern at 3M consisted of carrying out laboratory research to ensure the safety and durability of the large-scale manufacturing medicine filter, Zeta Plus™. This experience advanced my ability to collaborate, think ahead, apply what I have learned in Chemistry and Mathematics, and increase my expertise in computer software. My current position in Community Relations at Travelers entails for me to communicate with and manage volunteer opportunities for over 3,000 employees, in addition to connecting Travelers with non-profit partners, event planning, and serving as a liaison in Saint Paul for my remote manager and team in Hartford, Connecticut. This position enables me to not only exercise and expand my communication and technical skills, but also allows for me to learn about myself. And lastly, as a Resident Advisor at the University of Minnesota, I have been able to serve as an academic, social, and personal resource for forty first-year students. As an RA, communication and time management have been at the heart of my success. As a junior studying Marketing and Computer Science, my interests lie within the space of sales marketing, technology and international business, and I strongly believe that Morgan Stanley will allow for me to expand my knowledge in these areas. I sincerely hope to continue this learning process as an intern this coming

Through my time at Sewanee, I have accomplished many feats. I have been selected by Residential Life as an employer for the past three years. For the past two summers, I have interned under the Associate Dean of Students, conducting field research and

The faculty and departmental meetings prepared me for a successful start of my college career at Seton Hill by allowing me to get to know my professors, and allowing me to receive a real insight into

What I learned in the documentary called “The First Year” is the aspects of each teacher’s way they deal a classroom with students as first-timers. Especially when coming across to many challenges and the struggle they had during their first time ever as educators. Watching what lengths they will go to for the benefit of the students is admirable. The teachers who are into five separate schools in the Los Angeles area are known to be George Acosta who teaches English as a second language, Joy Kraft-Watts teaches high school history, Genevieve Debose teaches middle school language arts and social studies, Maurice Rabb teaches kindergarten, Nate Monley teaches fifth-grade bilingual education, and Andrew Glass teaches elementary special education.

As an intern, my first week was spent attending both the Principal-Leadership Conference and the Finance Conference led by the Anson County School’s Central Office. This time was spent absorbing and reflecting upon the large amounts of information being presented.

Emily joined us at the end of June 2016 as our Advisement & Registration and New Student Initiative Coordinator. Emily had the opportunity to shadow the outgoing A&R coordinator to meet campus partners and student advisors, observe how the program worked, learn our orientation process and system and get some hands-on, basic-level experience with our program. During the last 8 months, Emily has spent time meeting, building and collaborating with our campus partners and forging a personal connection with them. Emily is observing UMD campus-culture and learning about the history of SIT programs, and our campus partnerships, to help shape future direction of SIT programming.

I began my MLS program two semesters before moving from a school-based technology facilitator into an elementary school media coordinator position. I served as a media coordinator for an elementary school three years before moving into the role of a district technology facilitator. In my current position, I work with a team of three other district technology facilitators. We each have a curriculum focus, mine is media. I work with media coordinators across the district and advocate for our district’s media programs.

He was seen for followup. He is known to have Crohn's disease and also iron deficiency anemia secondary to chronic blood loss. He is currently on Colazal three capsules three times daily, Bentyl 20 mg three times daily, ferrous sulfate 325 mg three times daily, and prednisone 10 mg once daily. He claims that his loose stool has improved some; however, it would even be better if he is very compliant in taking his meds. He claims that he does not take his medication regularly on account that "it hurts my stomach," but I did mention to him that his stomach is hurting because of his condition, and at this time, he promised that he will be more compliant.

Erik Erickson developed the eight stages to the psychosocial development. The eight stages in Erikson's theory were; Trust vs. mistrust (Infant), Autonomy vs. Shame and doubt (Toddler), Initiative vs. Guilt (Pre-School), industry vs. inferiority (School Age), identity vs. role confusion (Adolescent), intimacy vs. isolation (Young Adulthood), generativity vs. stagnation (Adulthood), and integrity vs. despair (Mature Adulthood) (Wong et al., 2015, p. 27). With each stage there is progression to matures development.

I have not yet worked in a school setting, but I have worked in several agencies and offices where collaboration with colleagues was present. One agency I have worked in was a domestic violence shelter, which housed up to forty-five women and children. In addition, we ran a twenty-four hour crisis hotline, provided individual and group counseling services, and educated those out in the community about domestic violence. It took a lot of collaboration with colleagues to have the agency run smoothly and effectively. When issues arose with clients staying in the shelter, my colleagues and I would met to discuss the issues and how we were going to work together to solve them. Together we were able to discuss all of these factors and agree upon

This fall semester, I carried out an internship in the legal department of El Sol, Jupiter’s Neighborhood Resource Center. I assisted the legal program coordinator in filling out paperwork for clients and sat in on consultations with El Sol’s laborers about immigration and visa status, wage disputes, traffic tickets, and other legal troubles. On my first day, I quickly learned how difficult it is, as a part of a non-profit organization, to give people all the help that they need. Part of El Sol’s mission is to “give services to those in need” and they succeed at that in many ways. For example, El Sol’s School for Parents program taught parents positive reinforcement techniques for disciplining their children, such as praising good behavior and listening to their kids. The program as very well-liked by the participants, who felt that they learned useful lessons through the classes. However, in the legal department, it was more difficult to help people to the full extent of their needs.

It was an amazing feeling being a part of the community of small non-profits agencies helping low income communities. At these health fairs, I would hand out flyers and talked to people interested in VCC: The Gary Center. At a small agency like the VCC: The Gary Center it was important to receive donations from local businesses. I had to contact many restaurants and grocery stores to donate food and gift card donations. This process was nerve wracking, because I never did outreach to businesses. However, I was quickly able to learn about the process of getting items donated. Many stores have a lengthy process that requires a statement about the agency and the event where the items will be donated too. Going through this process for multiple donation applications made me proficient in my writing skills and communication skills. Despite not working in the counseling program for VCC: The Gary Center, I was able to gain extensive experience in issues that low-income families need help with and important office skills that are necessary for agencies. An internship that goes in line with my future career is being a co-leader for a Human Services class named Character and Conflict.

I have been at my site for about six weeks now and I feel much more comfortable in my current abilities. I have been working on my case summaries and treatment plans further this week. I have realized that keeping a client’s file in order can be a lot of work. Making sure that everything is in the file is very important for any mental health setting, but since my site is a training clinic we are taught to keep our files up to date and have taught me about what can happen if you do not for our future as mental health professionals. As a student who is assigned to check audits (for my graduate assistantship) at the practice I can now appreciate the other side of keeping my own files in order. I like that we have high standards at my site and

As the semester started, I had set my mind that I was destined to achieve a lot. During the start of the semester, I had several difficulties writing English assignments especially in terms of grammar. During the first week of the semester, I sat down, organized my thoughts and comprehended that throughout the semester, I had to achieve all that I had planned for. As a student of English, I had planned that throughout the semester, I had to improve my skills as a scholar, writer and critical thinker. Now that the semester has ended, I can reflect all the semester activities to depict how my writing skills and critical thinking skills have drastically improved. This paper presents a reflection paper of how this

It has been a while since I started at the internship and I am really glad I decided to work here. I think the experience in this area is a good preview of my career and future. I am learning some important skills and finding out some things about myself and the tough skin I will need in order to stay in the area of juvenile support.