How does this experience contradict or challenge my
academic knowledge?
- Some might think that this experience contradicts my academic knowledge because I am a Business Management Major with a Minor in Mathematics dealing with technology. But the way I see it is that I am helping myself for the future. I am learning about different aspects of a business and I am gaining first-hand experience on situations that occur in a business that I would not be able to learn in the classroom. In my opinion it is always good to have first-hand experience in a situation because it gives you a different perspective rather than talking about it in class. I am one of those people that has to see things in order to understand them and that's something I fell GRT is great at doing. They make sure they teach you something if you don't know how to do it and they take you step by step as well as make themselves available for questions if you have any.
- I will say this though, I have said it before and I'll say again, I am a little disappointed int he fact that I did not continue to pursue a Minor in C.I.T because I really do enjoy working with all that stuff. I have used tricks at GRT that I learned in my only C.I.T class at Loras and I was a little shocked that I remembered them to be honest. Having said that, this experience has shown me how managers deal with employees on the daily basis, the many processes of training and recruiting as well as making your work environment a positive one. Those are basically things a read about and was taught by Professor Ron Collins but I'd much rather see them in person to see how they play out in real life. I am excited to see what else this internship is going to teach me and what else I will be able to relate to material I learned/ have learned at Loras.
- To be honest, I do not feel uncomfortable about anything at the moment. I actually feel very comfortable and fortunate to be in the situation that I am currently in.
Special Situation #1
Nothing really happened this week. I was quite busy with two long projects and a bunch of little ones but there is something very interesting that happened.
Great River Technologies had all its managers, vice president and president meet and discuss the future of GRT and they came up with a great idea. GRT was tired of people asking them what they do with technology, people asking them about what technological services they provide as well as people going into the website and thinking that they are a technology based company. GRT decided to go from Great River Technologies to Great River Learning. They wanted something that would show what services they provide as well as they wanted to keep some of their name because that is how their customers can identify themselves. I thought this was awesome and the fact that they told us about this at our end of the Month conference meeting made it even better. They did not send out a mass email, they actually set aside some time during the conference meeting to tell us in person; something that I will not forget. I was working for GRT when they changed their name to Great River Learning aka GRL.
