Compare and contrast the work week with the school week.
How are your responsibilities, work, interactions, and time different?
How might internship influence the direction of your life?
What can you bring from internship to who you are in school?
During school hours, from 8:25-3:25 I'm given homework that is either due by the end of the class, day, or week. During my Internship hours, from 8:30-3:30, I'm given mini projects, including my main project, that has to be done by a certain time or could be done by the end of the day. But I've been needing to manage my time and set which task have to be done first, second and last. I would have to say that there is less stress working at my Internship then at school. I have a sense of what work I'll be doing throughout the day and during school I could be learning a new concept that needs to be learned in a day or two. So who knows what I'll be doing next?!
When I'm given a task or assignment by my mentor, he expects me to complete it and either give a description/explanation from what I noticed. At school, I'm given an assignment that my teacher hands me and has the idea of me completing it by its due date. I have responsibilities at both places but I feel more accountable at my Internship site.
My experience at Sekisui has taught me many things. From thinking, observing, communicating, becoming independent, connecting ideas, accepting the idea of fear and failing, and most of all my interest in engineering. I'm consistently visualizing my future when I have a part-time job, drive, am on my own, college and so much more. I feel that I will relate my experience to all of the above. For example, when I starting working again, I'll remember that the 1st day is the hardest, that I'll have to face my fear of asking questions (which is sort of ironic since I always ask questions) and how I'll have to start figuring things out on my own. I will also use my experience to decide whether I want to continue the same process or a new one. It's taken my perspective on life to many new views that will help me choose the path that I want to go towards.
Well, it hasn't happened it but when they day comes to waking up at 6:00 am and driving to Internship to waking up around 6:40 am and heading to school. I feel that I'll be viewing everything differently. I feel as if I'll be expecting my peers to be more mature and skilled from what they learned. Since the adults at Sekisui have knowledge on what they work on (or I at least hope they do), I visualize myself becoming frustrated or angered at my classmates for not knowing something. As if it was common. I have this fear that I won't be my old self that talks in "LOL", "OMG" language. But since I'll be working on explaining processes, producing quality work as well as being direct with others, that will most definitely help once I start back at school. It will lead me towards expanding my work in a variety of ways and my further my knowledge. I'm sure that I will notice the difference in the way I approach new situations and how I introduce them. I won't view myself as a "girl who doesn't know much" but to a "girl who is becoming an independent women who is able to accomplish anything once she sets her mind to it"!