Week of June 10

What does this experience point out to me about my own attitudes, biases, or preferences?

• In my opinion, so far in this internship I have seen that I have a winning attitude. What I mean by that is that I will get the job done no matter what. I don't get discouraged when I get big project assigned to me and I also don't lose concentration; if a project or a quick page needs to be done/created ASAP I will make sure it does get done. 
• I feel like I don't have any biases so far. I pretty much like everything I have been assigned to do to this point but then again, that could only be since I have been there 3 weeks. Things could change but I would have to say that at the moment, I do not have any biases. 
• Having said that, I do have a preference and that is that I like working on webpages a lot so whenever there is a project that involves making webpages, I make sure I jump right on it. I have also learned how to do a new project using a program called Raptivity. Raptivity is an eLearning interactivity building tool with a set of pre-built interaction models. Raptivity is used to create interactions which can be added to eLearning content, enabling interactive learning. I have really grown to liking these types of projects as it only took me less than one day to learn how to use Raptivity. Another preference that I have is that if I get assigned a big project, I will take on it by myself and with no ones help. I don't know why but that's just the way I like it. The way I see it, you are only going to get better at something if you keep doing it. 

What am I learning about myself through this internship?

• I am learning that I am pretty good at working with technology and that I can learn things pretty fast. I also noticed that maybe I should have done a double minor, mixing in Mathematics with CIT because I really get the hang of this and CIT is very interesting in my opinion. The things you can do nowadays with technology is mind blowing. Also, I have noticed that once you are around a group of people for a while you kind of start hanging out or talking to them in random places at work and also, I noticed that once I am comfortable with the people around me, I break out and I am myself around them. Usually, that is a fun, entertaining me that everyone loves. I have also learned that I should never really doubt myself and also if I have a question I should just go ahead and ask it instead of keeping it inside. 

Special Event/Situation #1

• There was a situation in which a was assigned a project in were I had to create a chapter for a webpage and the chapter had sub-links as well as baby-links. It was a big project but I was ready to take on it. Well to get to the point, the text the author wanted me to put on the webpage for the chapter included pictures and the way they were set up on the word document is that the words were on the left and pictures were on the right. Well I tried doing that but every time I did, the picture will be messed up and it would be on the opposite side so I went to one of the interns that have been there for 3 years to ask them for help. He didn't know much about my situation but he was very helpful and I kind of got it but the way it looked on  our server, it did not look like that on the webpage. The text was everywhere and that pictures where everywhere. So, what I did was I made a table with 1 column and 1 row and I placed the text on one box and the picture on the other. I showed the intern that tried to help me and he was impressed with the work I did. I finished the project and sent it in to the person that assigned it to me and she was impressed at how fast I got it done as well as how nice it looked. She actually sent me an email showing her appreciation for the job I had done. 

Special Event/Situation #2

• There was another situation in were my supervisor sent out a project and I was the first one to notice it so I picked it up. She said it was urgent so I assumed that it was a very important project. The project was basically to set up the grade book for two summer courses that someone had forgot to do. The professor was angry with GRT so my supervisor tried to get it done as soon as possible. I did not know what I was doing so I asked the same intern that helped me last time where the project was and when he showed me it clicked to me and I suddenly knew what to do because I remembered doing a similar thing earlier in the week. I got the grade books done in 19 minutes each so a total of 38 minutes. My supervisor saw that they were done and what proceeded next made me feel good about myself and the job I had done. I'll let you take a look at it and see what she said.