Exactly a week and a day before my last day at PON. I had to do some pretty intense planning last week to make sure that I’d be able to finish everything that I want to get done before I go back to school. One of the projects I’m trying to finish up in the next week […]
Random thought… …for a Friday afternoon. I’ve been doing some research on an indigenous tribe in Chile and the long-standing dispute they’ve had with the Chilean government since the 16th century. I’m researching with the question in the back of my mind of whether this conflict could be mediated by a third party, but the […]
After a few weeks on vacation, I’m back at PON for about another month. For this entry, I thought I’d depart a little from the usual format and do some thinking about (gulp) politics. But I’ll refrain from taking partisan positions (that’s the plan, anyway). At the beginning of the month, Barack Obama said something […]
The definition of sociology, my major back at school, is somewhat difficult to pin down. Seems like a pretty basic thing to know, and yet I’ve always had a hard time figuring out exactly how to word it, despite having been in classes for three years now. According to the trusty department website, sociology “examines […]
Having worked for about a month and a half so far this summer, I’m rapidly realizing that my internship experience now could be very different from the one that I had when I was here last winter. I guess I wasn’t prepared for the possibility that (gasp) not all internship experiences are the same. And […]
It feels a bit surreal on this last day to try and summarize my whole internship experience. I’m definitely starting to get really sad (although excited to go back to school), and even now, at 3:53 pm, I still half-think that I’ll be back here on Monday. In looking back at why I wanted to […]
And so begins my final week at PON. Today’s task is to figure out how I’m going to finish all my tasks in the next five days! So far things seem pretty tight, but manageable (I hope). I could write an entry about how time flies, etc., but I think I’ll spare everyone. One of […]
So throughout this internship, I’ve been keeping track of my tasks and projects in “weekly reports,” short Word documents that basically describe each week’s work and some things I learned. Today I was looking back at my very first report, in which one of the things I learned was to “write EVERYTHING down, even things […]
I definitely have been less than perfect in terms of updating this week. Even as the internship itself winds down, I’m finding that there haven’t been enough hours in the day to get everything done. This week was also particularly event-packed, which is actually what I wanted to write about today. After attending Monday’s Career Panel (on […]
I leave PON and go back to school exactly three weeks from today. Where did the time go?