Wrap Up

So my internship is officially over. It was fun, an interesting learning experience. I've made a lovely new contact person for future job opportunities and am glad to say that. Experience is so crucial (or so I'm told). I am thankful to everyone I met at the WVU Business Incubator for giving me the opportunity to work as a professional writer and for being there when I needed help with something. It was a very laid-back and stress-free environment, which was an awesome thing. I don't think I could have asked for a better interning experience.

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End of Week 9

I remember that the first thing I wanted to talk about was definitely the informal "meetings" we have sometimes. I will just be sitting here in my cubicle, and suddenly both Matt and Dusty are behind me. While I continue sitting, they both lean over and discuss a document that Dusty wants to talk about - the Locus markups, in this particular example, and we discuss the fact that somehow some of my edits did not make it to the copy that made it to his desk - and also that some of the edits I did make (and I have proof of them being saved and sent to the correct person) never made it to where they should have (there was a "fiscal year" report of sorts, where all the WVUBI tenants had their products displayed...I don't know...this is a perfect example of how you don't have to be absolutely sure what it is you are dealing with, to deal with it..but anyway, all the numbers were with the wrong companies as if the formatting had been messed up at some point. I went back and corrected everything, put it all in the right place, and sent it to the graphic design intern...and it was not fixed. I have the email I sent to her saved in my Sent box as well as the correct document saved in my files.) I think it's important to note here that you should always keep your work for future reference. I mean, not only did I need to keep everything for the end of the term web portfolio / presentation, but it's good to have stuff on hand in case a question comes up as to who's fault something is.

But I may have gotten a little off topic. I wanted to comment on how interesting I found it that Dusty came to me for a meeting, not the other way around. In a more formal setting, I'm sure the boss would want all meetings with him..maybe. Or maybe he just likes to walk around and get out of his office for a while. This is not a negative comment-but Dusty does tend to jump from one idea to the next fairly quickly, so it would make sense that he just walks here to talk about something that is on his mind. It was all very informal - not a formal meeting. I just thought it was interesting. I could have been asked to go to Matt's cubicle as well. Anyway...enough about that.

So last week, Matt and I had our field trip. I was so excited at the prospect of doing something outside the cubicle, and it did turn out to be very, very cool. My interviewing skills are obviously not what they "should" be (or perhaps they are, considering I am not a journalism major...) but I did get enough information to actually write the piece, so I consider that to be alright.

Going back to two paragraphs up, I kind of wish there weren't informal meetings here. They kind of take me by surprise, I am not expecting them, and therefore cannot prepare for what I need to be familiar with or remember...we hadn't spoken about Locus in a good three to four weeks prior to this meeting, so I had to be a little rusty when I spoke of what I knew - which is not professional.

Well, until next week...