Hello, today is Thursday, the last day of my workweek. I have learned a lot this week and will go into further depth later but for now here is a list of five things I have learned from my internship this week.
1) I know nothing of the world
Fortunately, I've never been the type who would be so arrogant as to think they know everything, but I did used to think that I knew something. Now I realize the truth, I do not know anything of adult life. I'm glad I have had the chance to take this internship and realize this before I get out in the real world.
2) Working in an office is kind of mind numbing
First time that I have ever had the chance to sit at the same desk all day. This is important in two ways: the first is that I want to pursue a career where I will not sit at a desk all day most of the time, the second is that if I have to work a desk job I will be better prepared to handle it.
3) I have no Idea what I'm doing
The project my mentor suggested to me (finding the cost of deporting an undocumented resident) involves so many concepts I can hardly wrap my head around. How do taxes work exactly? What on earth is TANIF and how does it work? Why do people want to remove working, law abiding residents from there community? How can you get a drivers license from the same government that is tracking you down? Why does our country have so many contradicting laws?
4) Focusing on a project you don't know how to complete is more challenging than I expected
I spend so much time looking around the website for the department of homeland security, pew research foundation etc. trying to gather information that I do not understand. I hope this will give me more value as an adult because right now I feel kind of worthless.
5) Speaking Spanish With Native Speakers is Much easier than expected
On the bright side I can understand more conversation and communicate more effectively than I would have guessed in Spanish. I am definitely not fluent yet, but if I continue to put time and effort into learning the language and actually speaking it after my internship ends fluency is definitely within my grasp.
I hope you all enjoy reading this. Really I hope your reading this at all. If this is of any importance to you or you have advice for me it would be great if you could comment below. (If I get a single comment on my blog 'twould be amazing)
1) I know nothing of the world
Fortunately, I've never been the type who would be so arrogant as to think they know everything, but I did used to think that I knew something. Now I realize the truth, I do not know anything of adult life. I'm glad I have had the chance to take this internship and realize this before I get out in the real world.
2) Working in an office is kind of mind numbing
First time that I have ever had the chance to sit at the same desk all day. This is important in two ways: the first is that I want to pursue a career where I will not sit at a desk all day most of the time, the second is that if I have to work a desk job I will be better prepared to handle it.
3) I have no Idea what I'm doing
The project my mentor suggested to me (finding the cost of deporting an undocumented resident) involves so many concepts I can hardly wrap my head around. How do taxes work exactly? What on earth is TANIF and how does it work? Why do people want to remove working, law abiding residents from there community? How can you get a drivers license from the same government that is tracking you down? Why does our country have so many contradicting laws?
4) Focusing on a project you don't know how to complete is more challenging than I expected
I spend so much time looking around the website for the department of homeland security, pew research foundation etc. trying to gather information that I do not understand. I hope this will give me more value as an adult because right now I feel kind of worthless.
5) Speaking Spanish With Native Speakers is Much easier than expected
On the bright side I can understand more conversation and communicate more effectively than I would have guessed in Spanish. I am definitely not fluent yet, but if I continue to put time and effort into learning the language and actually speaking it after my internship ends fluency is definitely within my grasp.
I hope you all enjoy reading this. Really I hope your reading this at all. If this is of any importance to you or you have advice for me it would be great if you could comment below. (If I get a single comment on my blog 'twould be amazing)