Reflection On Internship

I started my field experience on Tuesday, August 18, 2015, because my Field Instructor attended conference on Monday. However; the first week of internship at Worth County Department of Family and Children Services, in the Relative Care Department has been observing a client’s child loss in Sylvester, Georgia. Further, scrutinizing the Field Instructor, Managers, Case Managers, and Supervisors in their response and communicate with the family in this traumatic situations. This case was broadcast on the local news channel. It was not much information on this case available for the intern. Afterward, I reported my Microsoft Computer not properly working to Information System. My field instructor introduced me to the staff at Worth County Department

Another aspect I enjoyed was the fact that I was welcomed in the department as an expert in the field.  Before my internship, some friends warned me that I would mostly like be doing office clerk tasks, such as making copies, typing word documents, or even getting coffee for the entire office. But I was doing dealing with real information that would be actually used or needed by someone.  Mr. Patrick once called me in a meeting two weeks after I started.  He wanted me to take over a project from the county Department of Public Works, so he arranged a meeting with the head of the snowplowing route administration. He needed to have some maps corrected and updated. The maps included snowplowing routes by areas. The major problems in the map that he made were the streets labels; they were all overlapping at the intersections, and the textures used to symbolize some roads where not adequate.  I also gave him some tips and additional suggestions that I can include to improve the maps quality.

I have been very lucky to complete an internship with Wayne County Bank this summer. It was a rewarding experience and I have gained valuable knowledge that will be beneficial to me as I continue to pursue my career in Finance. Growing up in a small town with a bank that truly serves our community is inspiring. As a high school student, I volunteered to help WCB in any way needed at the Relay for Life or any other activity they hosted.

Internship is an integarl part of master of business administration curriculum under the guidance of VTU. Internship bridges gap between theoretical to application through a series of intervention to gain experience piat form towards organization behaviour and gives the exposure of experience.

Throughout the internship, I learned about several areas of policies that I had not looked into previously. Sitting in on the Commerce Justice Science hearings, I became familiar with a wide variety of issues. In my home state of Alabama, there was a concerning issue with overpopulation with red snapper. The federally regulated fishing season perpetuated this issue. This issue was brought up in a hearing, and by the time my internship was over the season had been extended for the first time in years. I also learned that the Air Force is having problems with recruiting. The Air Force wants more members but is not willing to sacrifice the quality of recruits they accept. The issue was addressed after looking at the budget for Air Force recruiting. CJS hearings also opened my eyes to the serious opioid epidemic in our country. Senators from different states all raised concerns with how to address the opioid problem. They addressed the Assistant Attorney General to ask for his support in the states’ efforts to combat the issue. These are just a few examples to show how diverse the policy is that I learned about in the CJS hearings.

In all honesty, I did not know what to expect when heading into this internship. I knew my boss on a personal level being that he is my brother-in-law but I only had brief experiences working alongside him and his employees. The very first day Derek, my employer made his expectations loud and clear he was to have 110% and nothing less. The first week on my internship I was assigned to sorting through seemingly endless amounts of red iron and tin among other things with a skid steer. Overtime I went from having very little familiarity with the piece of equipment to having spent days maneuvering through the mud and sand that was behind the shop. One day as I was riding I was reminded of a time in Mr. Fritt’s Concrete class where the class took turns learning to operate a skid steer belonging to OSUIT it was very satisfying to realize how far I had come.

It was a Tuesday in May at a congested Panera Bread. The dappled light, hanging from the ceiling, illuminated the Panera logoed roundtable which was home to a yellow legal pad, a blue-point pen, and a steamy cup of café con leche. Wedged between the CEO and Optics Engineer of a high-tech startup technology firm, I awkwardly shifted in my chair as a means of freeing my hand to scribble the notes of the day’s meeting agenda. Intently, I listened in to the conversation at hand about how to commercialize our new, patented technology. Our meetings always functioned this way—a myriad of noises and distractions interjecting into each minute detail. Nevertheless, there was a peace to these interruptions for which I sincerely had a deep appreciation for. It served as a remembrance of the importance of what it looks like to do the right, ethical thing; shaping my desired path in the legal field.

As I get closer to saying goodbye to Ireland, I cannot help but to reflect on how much I have been able to take away from my experiences. In the months leading up to coming to Ireland, I could not have expected to learn as much as I did. When I first arrived in Dublin, I could not have imagined I was going to learn as much as I did. I had a narrow view of what Irish culture was going to be like. My intern experience in the Irish culture was better than I expected. Ireland has changed me as a person and I am confident that I am leaving Dublin with a more open-mind, and as more well- rounded individual.

4. Describe how you have taken advantage of a significant educational opportunity or worked to overcome an educational barrier you have faced.

Over the summer of 2016, I went back to my home country of Curacao and did an internship with Art n More. The Internship was Three months long and I worked various hours over the week. However, there were some steady hours throughout the week. On Monday's from 3 to 6 pm, we would open the store and have a general meeting on the goals of the week. Around 7 pm student would arrive and class would start. I would go around and help the teacher by 9 pm class would end and we would close the doors. On Wednesday I would go and work from 2 to 9 pm on our mural projects. Thursday would be my days of working from home and I would mainly work on marketing material. Upon Friday, I would work for giving classes or be helping one of the teachers. Lastly, Sunday I would go help give makeup classes from 5 to 7 pm. From every job you can learn allot, there are many aspects to them. I had to describe my work it would be in 3 categories; Team Work, Communication, and Educational. I have discovered a lot from this job because how many different experiences I had.

This week at my internship site we have all been very busy due to the fact that we have been helping senior students and year five students getting their Cuny. Suny, and fafsa applications done. Even though we had different cuny workshops before in order for students to finish their college application in advance, there stills a big number of students who haven’t done their college application so right now this a priority for all us, but the good thing about this is that there are many of us involve in this such as school counselors, interns, ATR, college advisors. So students are getting all the help that they need for this big process. There have been some students who are very good students academically but they been having some issues where their parents who don’t want to provide them with their taxes information, every time we get a case like this, this is something we all feel like there is no much we can do. Counselors had tried to contact parents and they all give different excuses why they don’t want to provide their taxes so we still have a big number of students who needs to finish their application by this week.

This internship has been a valuable opportunity to gain skills that will help my future academic and professional careers. At the beginning of the semester we outlined a few goals that we wanted to achieve over the course of the internship, I believe that I have been successful at completing these goals. First, I was able to shadow a senior therapist. When doing so I spent the day seeing the types of things that my supervisor does. This was a very cool experience because I believe I was able to do my job better after shadowing her. Stefanie does a really good job of communicating with our clients effectively when they are feeling stressed or upset. She is able to use a variety of strategies to let them know that something they are doing might be hurtful or inappropriate and the children usually respond very well.

Before receiving my final internship assignment, I honestly did not have any true goals for my internship. I only knew that I was going to take every opportunity that was given to me, even if I don’t think the opportunity was fitting for my skill set. Upon getting my internship assignment at Theatre Delicatessen, an arts charity in Central London, I soon learned that this was not going to be a traditional theatre setting. I was assigned to work as an intern at their new location at the Old Library in Southwark to help prep for their @HOME Festival for Refugee Week. With that said, working at Theatre Deli, consist of a lot of sitting, brainstorming, and marketing. The first day at work, I, along with three other interns including our own Ellen Everitt, sat down with your lovely supervisor, Emma Blackman to plan duties that needed to be complete leading up to the festival. The first week consist of creating a poster, new flyers, and updating the social media. I was initially in charge of organizing a meeting with the four artists that are participating in the opening night event for the festival. I helped the artists gather the necessary materials and equipments needed to make your performance a success. After organizing a meeting for all the artists to come together, I assisted Ellen in adding lines to the poster. I also updated all the Eventbrites for each event. Ellen and I also collaborated on updating all the social media and teaching Emma how to efficiently utilize

My first few weeks of interning at Holiday Park Elementary had very slow start. In addition to that, I was performing tasks that didn’t really enhance my professional growth. For instance, my responsibilities included: developing supply order forms spreadsheets, recording the values for the spreadsheet, taking supply inventory in classrooms, assisted with checking in electronic devices that were in classrooms, cleaned/ rearranged furniture in classrooms, set up for field day, and monitored students during the field day event. I also designing and organizing bullet boards, posting the bulletin boards and creating/ laminating over 432 vocabulary flash cards by hand for second graders. Things changed drastically once it was brought to my attention that my internship duties that didn’t align with my proposal. After this concern was mentioned to my attention that same day I arranged a meeting with my site supervisor and discussed what was the expectations of the course as well as the areas I wanted to gain more knowledge. This meeting made reflected on myself and it made me come to the realization how important it is to speak up in the workplace to make sure my standards are being met and I am being satisfied. I am a very shy person and don’t like confrontation, but there is nothing wrong being certain that you are going to get the most out of an experience in a tactful fashion.

The internship that I acquired this summer was at Palisades Medical hospital in the physical rehabilitation center. I have volunteered in many other physical therapy facilities, but this internship was the best I ever had. The previous facilities that I volunteered at were private practices I wanted to change the environment so I decided to volunteer in the hospital. During my internship, I was exposed to new concepts within physical therapy, which lead me to a new understanding about the musculoskeletal system. I had the pleasure of shadowing Doctor Kimberly DuPree she exposed me to various treatment plans and programs to help restore a patient’s mobility. The essential courses that I have taken at Saint Peters University such as Kinesiology and Exercise Physiology prepared me for this opportunity. I would observe most of her evaluations for educational purposes and to translate for her because most of the patients were Hispanic. Throughout her evaluations, I saw that she would go beyond what was written on the prescription and treat other areas that may have caused the primary symptom. During my time of volunteering, Doctor Kimberly mostly dealt with patients with lower extremity complications specifically patients suffering from lower back pain and with these patients she would conduct a number of tests that helped determine the source of the problem. In all her assessments concerning patients with lower back pain she would test for signs of a pelvic tilt. The reason why