I have returned for another semester with the Liberal Arts Career Development team. This semester, I have a new position: a senior intern. This new title comes with a great deal of responsibility that I am very much looking forward to.
Already I see the difficulty of my assignments increasing, which is encouraging me to step outside my comfort zone and improve on my weaknesses. My first assignment was to write, edit, and produce the LACD monthly newsletter. This task in itself would have been challenging for me, seeing as writing is not my strength. However, this task was especially intimidating because I had about 10 days to complete it. Although I was excited about the prospect of producing a document from start to finish, I knew it would be difficult. And I was right. After several late nights and countless edits, I finally produced a newsletter that I was proud to send out to almost 9,000 members of the Purdue community. I feel like this task really encouraged me to look at my strengths and weaknesses, finding new ways to challenge myself during the course of this internship.
I anticipate the semester being filled with unique and challenging projects. As a senior intern, I feel like I will have a greater amount of involvement in projects and have higher expectations from the department. These are responsibilities I am excited to take on and feel like by the end of the semester, I will have tangible, real world experience to bring to a full time position.
I am most looking forward to working with the LACD team. I am already impressed by the skills and dedication of the other LACD interns and feel like we are a compatible match. Every intern has unique visions, experiences, and strengths. This will not only benefit LACD, but I feel like we will all learn from each other. I am also looking forward to confronting some of my weaknesses and working with the team to improve.
This semester is already off to a wonderful start and I am looking forward to the coming months!
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