Oh my goodness, I didn’t even realize that nine weeks have passed until I sat down and started typing this out. Time really flies when you feel like you’re baking in the Florida heat and are desperately trying to keep track of new deadlines as semesters transition into one another.
Now, I know I tend to ramble in these blogs posts, which is fine, but I do that for a reason.
In the words of Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” These posts are my way of capturing my first internship experience ever!
Of course, I want to ramble and journal during these writing sessions. I want to be able to look back and see what it is I was able to accomplish.
This week’s blog post topic is going to be covering pride and accomplishments. I know it’s definitely a different vibe than the previous post, but it is needed.
All of this time, I have been writing about how hard it was juggling everything. The constant reminder that my tenure as a student here at the University of Central Florida looms over my head with each passing week, and that can be extremely hard to cope with, especially since I don’t have an example of what “post-grad life” should look like, or if that’s even something I can achieve.
This feeling had acted up again. The anxiety of not knowing what’s around the corner, and I almost wrote about the inevitability of an end coming fast.
However, I realized something. I have been so focused on what was coming, whether it was where I will live next year or what I should write about next week, that I never spoke about the good things this internship has given me outside of my normal duties.
With the skills I gained in this internship, I was able to help my coworkers with their research and writing so they could pass their classes.
With the confidence I have gained since coming here, I was able to apply for a Museum Education position at the Regional Historical Society. The jury is still out on if I got the job or not, but that’s not the point of me writing this in. The point is that with the assurance of me gaining an internship position that I wasn’t necessarily totally qualified for, I took the plunge and applied for a job position that interested me, even though I may not have the skills necessary in order to complete it (yet.)
Internships aren’t just a way to get ahead in the career you would like to pursue. Although they certainly help in that aspect, they are also formative experiences. They teach you patience and time management, but also interpersonal skills that can help outside of the workplace.
So, I think my main point for this week is take into consideration not just where you are going, but where you would like to say, “I have been.”
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