Read another student's blog. What stands out to you? What experiences do you have in common? What contrasts do you see? What questions do you have?
I chose to look at Noah's blog...he is interning at UCSD which caught my interest because thats a college that I am potentially interested in pursuing my education at....Anyways, sometime last week he was telling me about some Child Development study of the childs ability to match facial expressions with emotions, if I'm correct. I thought I would see a bunch of psychology stuff on his blog but I didn't. I don't even know if they are currently conducting the study?
What stands out to me is: There is a post that has a picture of a clock. The caption says
Time stood still as I entered the room. My body was telling me it was bedtime, my mind said it was 9am, and the clock told me it was 4:00...
At first I was thinking what is this picture of this clock doing here. Then I saw the caption and thought it sounds like some sort of exerpt from a cheesy girly novel...Twilight per say. Besides that, it stood out to me becuase in a way I feel like that at internship, seems like all the days are blended together and never end and I lose track of time ALL the time.
Experiences I have in common with Noah are: I have experience with technical difficulties. Like Noah said he isn't a tech kind of guy at all, well I'm not a tech kind or girl either. Theres a difference of knowing how to use the basic functions of basic software such as Microsoft Office programs, but it is taken to a whole new level when I was introduced to the Strategic Plan. Its something I've never seen in my life; a combination of PDF, PowerPoint, and Links?! It was sort of thrilling to just look at it and to my amazement, clicking on a link was much more fascinating than it usually is. My other technical difficulties is Microsoft Excel...Part of my project is creating charts, which I, for the most part, was comfortable with until I actually started doing it. Excel likes to decide how its going to display the information instead of letting me choose, which is completely frustrating because I really just can't do anything about it, it doesn't let me choose. That can get frustrating for me especially because I like to have some sort of control over the projects I work on, also the fact that the graphs made me have to use my math brain...I'd say my math brain is my weakest assett when compared to everything else. My grades even say so I passed with flying colors in Biology99% and Eglish3/History(Honors)98% but only 91%in Math3..I guess I should work on my math brain some maybe I'll go work on my Aleks when I get home. I guess a weak math brain isn't technically a technical difficulty.
He posted about the culture at his internship site. I think his site and my site share similarities as there are many coworkers, and a couple big bosses, everyone interacts with eachother but there doesn't seem to be any internal conflicts at all. Everyone is on the same page here, everything works efficiently.
Contrasts between us are..."Although things run smoothly at the UCSD Center for Human Development, I've sat in on enough meetings that there is conflict and communication issues with UCSD and the other sites participating in the PING study." This is something we do not share in common. At parks&rec there are 3-5 subdivisions, each has a boss and then at least 5+ workers in that division(I use 5 as minimum beause that is the ammount there is in our division; Resource Management. The others have many many more.) All of the subdivisions are in charge of different things such as Resource Management or Marketing. I've been to plenty of meetings and pretty much everything runs smoothly. Everyone here is very close knit, they communicate effectively, and the way things go almost seems effortless. The only conflict they have is with partnering companies such as Caltrans..I went to a meeting with DPR to Caltrans, who seemed to have not a clue what the laws and guidelines are. My mentor, shes great I love how calm she is, but at the meeting she had to repeat herself about seven times because Caltrans just didn't get it. Thats something I admire her for, if I was in her position I probably would've just gotten irritated. But I think thats something maybe the DPR needs to work on, if their 'partners' are being lazy and you-know-whatty- someone has got to step up and not play Mr. Nice Guy anymore. Gotta keep them on their toes.
Questions I have are... If I had a question for Noah I guess I'd just ask what he learned. The blog posts mostly talk about the environment and what goes on around him, but I'd rather like to know what he is taking away from the experience and the content he is learning/how it is affecting him.
you'd have to come to my presentation of LEARNING to find out what I learned.
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