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?
Well, as I predicted, I did not try out a defensive and aggressive style in my “difficult conversation” last week in the Negotiation Workshop. But luckily, it wasn’t necessary. The person I was speaking with was incredibly attentive to my character’s concerns, and clearly understood the meaning of active listening. It is easy to feel […]
…over this afternoon’s negotiation. Well, it’s not really a negotiation that I’ll be engaged in this afternoon in the Negotiation Workshop. It’s a difficult conversation. I have actually been in a situation eerily similar to that of my character in the role-play, and what ended up happening in the real-life difficult conversation was not satisfactory to […]