Xacc/280 Week 3 Team Assignment

My internship takes place in Youth Service America (YSA), a non-profit organization based in Washington DC. Since it was established in 1989, YSA’s mission has been to encourage youth to make a positive impact in this world. Furthermore, YSA also focuses on educating youth about global issues and celebrates young people that are already facilitating change. For my internship, I work twenty hours a week; these hours are split among three days.

For last week assignment, we were all asked to download three fitness apps of our choice and to monitor our daily physical activity and calorie intake. The three apps I decided to download for this assignment were Myfitnesspal (http://www.myfitnesspal.com/), MyPlate (https://www.livestrong.com /myplate/), and SparkPeople (https://www.sparkpeople.com). In order to use each of these apps, I had to input general information about myself such as height, current weight, weight goal, date of birth, and whether or not if I would like to gain, lose or maintain weight. Having the ability to scan my food barcode made each app easy to use. Out of all three apps, I would say that Myfitnesspal and MyPlate were the easiest apps to figure out. I had a little difficult time using SparkPeople in the beginning. I had a hard time figuring out how to automatically set up my step from my iPhone. Most of these apps were not complete, in order to track my macros or to know what foods rank the highest in nutrients, I would need to pay for premium membership to gain those type of access. However, with each of these apps, I was able to choose a variety of workouts.

Dad would like for him to continue to make academic progress. Mom would like for him to get more help with reading and math since he continues to struggle in both areas.

My total Income was determined to be around $1123.42 per month. This income was determined after adding both my monthly job of $756 and my my financial aid of $272.80 a month. I plan to get a part time job that pays at least 10 dollars a month which is the federal minimum wage. In total I'm suppose to be making around 800 a month, but after taking away 20% in taxes I came out with $756 dollars that I would be able to spend on whatever I need to spend on. FAFSA Estimate was to be around $3,265.00 that equals to $1123.42 a

After winning junior tournaments I wanted more and therefore; I challenged myself to the next level. I remember having a chat with my dad, he was giving me a father to son chat about life and what is best to focus on whether academic studies or sport? As he was concerned because I was spending more time playing sports than doing school work. He said life of sport is hard but, I reassured him that everything will be fine. I knew I had a mind set and ability not to give up because my strength lies on mental toughness and my settling for second best wasn’t /is not satisfying outcome.

Currently, I am going to school to receive a degree in Business Administration. I have worked for In-N-Out Burger for over three years, and plan to use my degree to move up in the company. As of July 7, 2015, I was hired in the corporate office for In-N-Out Burger to work in their Customer Service Department. This is a promotion for me, as I was working in the restaurant before. I plan to continue moving up in the company, even more so when I have my degree. I want to secure a positon in Human Resources for the company.

My internship entailed a lot of out three students two of which from MSU and the other from Wayne State. Its was a regular eight o’clock to four o’clock job, driving to work itself was an everyday objective from my established residency in Northern Oakland County roughly 40 miles each way. The three of us maintained our own quarters on the 28th floor of the Guardian Building in the financial district of Detroit where we could provide help to each other and work together to draft memos for the Mayor of Detroit Mike Duggan and CEO Warren C. Evans, business proposals for foreign counties to invest in Detroit and Wayne County, and creating a cloud based systems that each employee can import and export data from their current assignment with ease. Individually I was given the opportunity to set up and meet with all 43 communities within the borders of the county. Where the Executive Director of Corporate Affairs and myself would ask questions that focused primarily on business retention and future devolvement. Interviewing and traveling to each city on a daily basis turned out to be the easiest part of the process. Communication was the most

Excel has been becoming a more major role player in the business world, because of the simplicity and easiness to share files across multiple computers it presents once mastered, luckily my computer information systems course provided a background for understanding and knowing the basics of excel. Eventually, a supervisor of mines will request I prepare a financial report of my clients and my understanding of Excel will ease the learning process of proper preparation of this task, because I will already have the base skills required and be able to build-off of those skills when learning the specifics required in preparing the report. Computer information systems 2010 at Georgia State also taught me that all information systems are linked together within most business, so if I do not fully grasp the information of a file uploaded by another department then I can locate someone in that specific department and ask them for assistance in understanding the information, rather than seeking out a manger and using their precious time explaining something that someone else could have explained just as well, possibly even better because it entails their specialization. CIS also taught me that information systems is constantly changing, because of all the advancements in technology and technology security, because of that I

At Cloud Sherpas I learned how to work in a business environment. I learned the importance of showing up on time to work and to meetings. My boss taught me how manage my time wisely and work on short term, long term and ad hoc assignments. I came away from Cloud Sherpas with a solid foundation and I put that knowledge to work at Southwest. Southwest showed me what it was like to work in a company’s corporate headquarters and I was given freedom to delve into the areas of marketing that interested me. I was fortunate to sit in on company meetings and see what it takes to run a Fortune 500 company.

My most current internship is for Milestone Venture Productions and Media in Encino, CA. It is a startup Production Company that

Throughout my internship, I mostly worked in office. I also attended one trade show with my supervisor and co-workers.

Activities and Experiences: There were many tasks performed while at this internship. The first task was learning how to do requests for information (RFIs) with the system that the company uses. When imputing the information into there are many different tabs and steps that you have to go trough. Once you input them into the system you then have to send them out to the appropriate people/company so that they can answer you request for information. Being able to learn the new system was easy since the past 3 years I have and to learn how to do things differently and adapt. The second task I preformed numerous times of the past four months was doing estimates. I did many takeoffs for many different buildings, and divisions while I was here at the company. The takeoffs that I preformed were challenging, but I was able to get them done because of the classes I have taken. Back at Texas A&M we have two semester long estimating classes that we are required to take, and in these classes we learn the basics of estimating. The basic principles that were

I interned at Gorgeous Entertainment, Inc. from October to December. The company produces special events represented by Japan Day @ Central Park and theater projects represented by Tony-nominated Pacific Overtures. The small size of the office and the large scale of the projects provided me opportunities to practice a greater variety of jobs. During my internship, my main tasks were related to their latest theater project, Prince of Broadway and their upcoming special event, Japan Day @ Central Park. There were also many other administrative tasks.

Describe (in detail) the value of this internship experience in preparing you for future career success.

In regards to comparing various aspects of the internship thus far, both positive and negative, I can honestly say it is majority positive. I believe the biggest positive aspect that comes to mind for this internship, is that on arriving I wasn’t assigned one major project to work on for the summer. Rather, I help out when and where I am needed, and given every opportunity to explore areas of interest around SFOU. Instead of being tied up in a single project, I am exposed to more by being able to work on several smaller projects which, I believe, is much to my advantage. This also allows for me to join the occasional flight that has a few extra open seats, without having to worry about falling behind on a certain task or duty.