Classmate Interviews:
These are a couple of my classmate's responses to the questions we had for this assignment. These are quotes as we did this over text. - The who, what , where, why of your internship: Karley: "Working at Wasatch Property Management with their marketing team to give suggestions for improvement when they launch their new website." Maddy T: "I interned at Center for Children at Cal State San Marcos. My mentor is Ms. Letisia Ford and she is the Center Director. I helped supervise children ages 12 months to 4 years old and helped the teachers with lessons. I choose to intern there because I wanted to see what it was like working with younger kids." Travis: "Who: David Ortiz, What: Star Wars Shadow of the Empire, Where: Temecula, Why: I like making costumes" Matthew E: "Oceanside, Oceanside Public Library. Public service, creating a community space that’s unique. Updating catalogue, programs and classes, getting kids into different activities like art, science, history, etc. They want to bring the community together and make the place more than a library. Intends on helping people: Providing lunches to kids, access to computers, giving free books once they are out of the catalogue. The librarians are keeping track of everything going on and making sure that the library is good." - What is your internship project? Karley: "Creating a presentation that explains what makes a good web presence as well as collecting pieces from several mini projects to help the team such finding rogue Facebook accounts that need to be reported." Maddy T: "My internship project was making labels that corresponded to items in classroom in Japanese. The classroom had labels in English and Spanish around the classroom and I thought it would be good to add on to that. I wrote them in hiragana (Japanese characters) and Romaji (English characters to show pronunciations)." Travis: "My internship was to make three drafts of the main character’s chest plate." Matthew E: Matthew is doing multiple projects because there are a lot of different things to work on. He sorts books, reorganizes shelves, and organizes things for events like bringing out unpopular books and replacing them with new ones as well as engaging the community on politics and bringing awareness to unregistered voters. - What are you enjoying about your internship? Karley: "I really like the freedom to work on whatever with no certain designated period of time. Like how at school, we have a certain two hours for math but here I could work on it whenever works best for me." Maddy T: "I’m enjoying working with the kids. They are really cute and sweet and they say a lot of funny things." Travis: "I enjoyed that I was able to make costumes out of new materials." Matthew E: "They put in a lot of effort in so that the community can thrive. They base their programs off of books and they try to extend that to other businesses to bring the community together. Often partnering with book’s businesses to promote." - What are you finding frustrating about your internship? Karley: "Can be really quiet but otherwise I really like it." Maddy T: "There are frustrating things such as dealing with kids crying, and kids sneezing and drooling on you." Travis: "What I found frustrating was the steep learning curve with craft foam." Matthew E: Nothing to note. - What is something new you have learned at your intersnship? Karley: "I find business and the aspects that I have exposed to a lot more interesting than I thought I would." Maddy T: "I learned about how to deal with conflict involving children. You have to think creatively and learn how to distract them with other things to keep them from fighting." Travis: "Something new I learned was how ... to use craft foam." Matthew E: "... didn’t realize how much libraries do, he didn’t know that the library has a separate library called the 'Friend’s Libraries' for books that aren’t in the catalogue anymore and sell the books for cheap. All the money goes back to the library." - If you were recommending your internship to an HTHNC Junior, what would you share about this internship? Karley: "It’s very relaxed and everyone in the office is super nice and chill. It’s not a crazy internship where you are running around constantly. It’s a good mix of hanging out with cool people, learning, and getting things done." Maddy T: "If I were recommending this, I’d say its a really fulfilling experience and you can help make a kids day better by playing with them and teaching them how to do everyday tasks." Travis: He says it's a good idea of what jobs in the real world are like. Matthew E: "You are treated with a lot of respect in this internship. Interns are treated exactly like staff and they get badges like staff. Even volunteers don’t get badges. This internship always gives out free books ... They will allow interns to work on any project you can think of. They are super flexible with your ideas. They have free food by the back table, if anyone has free food, they put it by the back table for anyone to eat. This internship will never bore you and time goes by fast. The satisfaction of the work and the kids, parents being happy. Being a part of a new experience you have never been before. The satisfaction factor is a big selling point of this internship."
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