Final Presentation

The semester is coming to an end so my Internship Course is nearing conclusion. Fortunately my internship is not near ending, in fact I am going to work FULL TIME this Summer for CED3! Next semester I expect to have a schedule which will allow me to work a lot more than 24 hours. I want to keep on at CED3 even after graduation, for I've found a place where I really enjoy the work and feel I can make a significant contribution.
The internship class has a requirement that I gather documents and media for a final presentation. This has allowed me to reflect on these last three months and go over what I've done.
Fortunately our task management spreadsheets have a record of my completed and penfding work so I can just make a print out of that. I have much to report on about my internship as I've learned so much, discovered so many things about websites, corporate group work and NPS itself. I feel myself having changed as an employee.

Some things I've learned:

Team work. I thought that what it meant to work on a team was that you have people helping you to check and make sure that no mistakes get out. I learned a much more important aspect of teamwork is that you make sure to do perfect work so your team mates can trust the product you hand them and not have to go over it.

Design/code view. I started out working in Dreamweaver in the design view. Oh boy I can format text and paragraphs and cut and paste, align, tab, do normal word document editing. I found out this was very wrong as my websites got returned to me full of errors and broken links and the underlying code was a disaster. It turns out the code/text translation is not perfect, and for what is going out to be read on multiple browsers it is most important that the HTML code view be formatted correctly.

Adults can relax and also work hard. All the jobs I've had in the past I felt like I had to work very hard and fast to impress my boss and keep my job. I only found out that it's OK to be careful and methodical here at NPS. Not that it's OK to lag, but this work requires a lot of careful consideration and should not be rushed. This has been a tremendous relief to me and made my work experience a highly rewarding one.

I'm good at what I do. Although I have a lot to learn, I have studied desktop publishing extensively and practiced it personally, professionally and at school. I find I have just the mindset to carefully code and format websites and other media. I like it and my results prove I am getting the job done right.

I can perform well at work while also maintaining 4.0 at the University, with almost twice a full load! I am there, I've turned a corner and find all my work easy and enjoyable. I hope to carry on my work at NPS and at School with even increased success!

Thank you for reading.