Personal Narrative: Balancing School Work And Internship

An internship can also heighten the awareness of community issues, motivates to create opportunities, embrace new ideas, and give direction to positive change. A successful internship can provide valuable information in making decisions about the direction of future studies or employment. An internship is an opportunity to not only use and develop industry-related knowledge and skills, but also to enhance some of the skills that are transferable to any professional work setting. For some people, the internship is the first introduction to the world of work. No matter where the skills and understanding of professionalism lie, internship is a chance to develop them even further.

In life we all have encountered successes and failures, sooner or later. Although failure is dreadful, I can only learn from it. I have failed multiple times, but I matured and learned from the experience. I, being a teenager, thought a job would make me more efficient; however it was the exact opposite.

My freshman year service work consisted of volunteering through Project LOL at the Toussaint Academy and fundraising with the Andy Paul Sanchez Foundation. I completed a total of 16.5 direct service hours at the Toussaint Academy and 10 indirect hours fundraising with the Andy Paul Sanchez Foundation. I began volunteering at the Toussaint Academy at the start of the year and completed a series of visits in May. I have been involved with the Andy Paul Sanchez Foundation since it began, but I volunteered at multiple golf tournaments in effort to fundraise. Being able to volunteer at both the Toussaint Academy and the Andy Paul Sanchez Foundation was a blessing and brought me closer to many new people.

The Jersey City Summer Internship Program has given me a chance to experience my first job. They graciously enough placed us in Brown Brothers Harriman Bank. Let me tell you, I would not be anywhere else. This place is candy land for me, to learn and understand how systems/technology works. But, not only am I grateful for this knowledge and experience, I appreciate the way it was organized. Jason, the way you organized this event was spectacular and it incorporated some hands on experience, not just listening to specific instructions. Besides the work life, you’ve given me advice for college and how to balance your private life with work, so you don’t stress yourself out. You put a spin on every task I do, which makes me confident and takes

I am Carla Sittig. I will be doing my internship at HJ Macdonald Middle school in New Bern, NC. I am excited to experience a middle school media center. I am no stranger to middle school, but have never experienced it from any other aspect other than a classroom teacher. In my current position I have the opportunity to advocate for media coordinators at the district level. My goal is to better understand the challenges of middle school media coordinators and understand how to integrate information literacy skills in the curriculum at the secondary level.

During Summer Break, I mow the Sykeston St. Elizabeth Cemetery for my SAE. The church provides the lawn mower and trimmer, but I have to bring my own gas. Furthermore, I currently hold President of the Carrington FFA Chapter, in 2016, we organized Meals of Hope to provide food to those in need. The entire Student Body participated and we packaged over 51,000 meals beating the goal of 50,000 in 2 hours. I am also the Secretary of the Rural Raiders 4-H Club in Foster County, I enter static exhibits, show livestock, rabbits, and poultry. These many experiences relate to my educational goals by the traits of success, leadership, cooperation, and gratitude. These traits will help me be honest and fair in the game of

When thinking about graduating high school and going into college, do you ever think that you will get a job right when you graduate? Yes that may be the case for some individuals but for the more technical jobs and the ones that require more schooling for, look for student who have experience with their major. It is important to know the different internships that are offered throughout high school and college.

I have had the opportunity to be in constant contact with many great Texas A&M mentors (current and former students) since my Junior year at high school. My mentors definitely have made an impact and set the ground work that influenced me in becoming involved in leadership activities at Texas A&M University. During my high school junior and senior years they assured me that becoming involved in leadership activities and student life would set a great foundation and empower me with the Aggie pride.

One early, April morning, people came for me in the dead of night to take me to school. The tinkling sounds of their key inside the lock to the door of my bedroom woke me from a sound sleep. They fumbled with it, betraying their unfamiliarity with the lock, while I rolled over in my bed and half dreamt of reminding my mom that the handle had to be held slightly upwards. When the door opened full there was a pause as light and cool air entered my room, and I propped myself up on my elbows to see why I was hearing such heavy breathing. A tall, middle-aged man approached the foot of my bed, while a short and unfamiliar woman lingered below the doorframe.

I think the courses I took at Wayne State prepared me for my internship. Through my internship I would look back at notes or books from past classes and was able to find information on the things I was looking for. However, medications are super hard to learn, and there are a ton of them. I know there is a medication class that’s an elective, so I wish I would of taken that so I could better understand some of the

To begin with, when I first started my internship with the Shake It Up-After School program, I honestly didn’t know what to expect. On one hand, I knew that my knowledge from last year would allow me to prepare for this year; but on the other hand, I also had to remember that this year would be different since I was taking on a leadership role. Although I wasn’t assertive at the start of the program, I was privileged enough to work side by side with people who were. Janne Knight for example, was the other co-director of Lowell elementary school and had been for the past two years. With that in mind, I turned to her and, Dr. Matthew Hansen for enlightenment until I felt comfortable enough to take the lead.

Before accepting the position to intern in the Web Communications department of DeSales University, I started by asking multiple people if they knew of any open internship opportunities on campus. Since I did not have a car, I needed something that was on campus because I would have no way of getting to any position off campus. I started by asking Nick Luchko if there were any open internship positions in his office in McShae. I had been a part of the L.E.A.DSU program with him and we had stayed in contact ever since. Unfortunately, he did not have any open positions or know of any, so I then asked my supervisor and professor, Dr. McKnight. Dr. McKnight referred me to Tom McNamara, who is the Executive Director of Communications at DeSales.

Welcome back everyone. It seems like I had only just started researching down at the lab, but it has finally come to an end. This week was the final week at my internship and I am sad to see it come to an end. Thankfully, I was successful in my endeavors to synthesis a thermostable DNA polymerase, in this case pfu, but there was still so much more I could have done with it. Creating the pfu was only the first step, there was still so much more testing I could have done, whether it be comparing it to an actual company made pfu or figuring out more specifics for my pfu. Nonetheless, I still succeeded and had fun.

“I’ll see you in a week.” Barely a few days into my internship at Washington State University’s Intelligent Robot Learning Lab, my mentor, Professor Taylor, left for a robotics conference.

This semester, I was able to view issues affecting the region through citizens’ sentiments on social media. My initial goal, starting the internship, was to get exposure to research and see what the work life of a researcher looks like. As an economics major, I have taken quantitative courses, including statistics, but never had the opportunity to see the real world applications. Overall, I got to refine and practice my writing skills. I learned the about the overlap between writing in academia and research reports. Because of the lessons I learned over the past few months, I would consider the internship a success. I learned to make the best of it, even during times when I was not pleased with different issues in the office. Having other interns working on my project helped me cope with the deadlines because we would help each other with any tasks that we were stuck on.