On Thursday October 22, I attended a workshop dealing with
internships and everything one may need to know about them. Unlike all
the other workshops, this one lasted the full two hours promised. The
instructor was a woman who could help all the students find internships,
unfortunately she didn’t put up a slide with her name on it so all I
know is that her office is located on the second floor.
She began the workshop by handing out a booklet with everything we need
to know about where we can find an internship or job opportunities and
what to look out for and where to look for it. In the booklet there were
several pages where we could write out our plans for future possible
internships. Later we should look back on what we wrote to see if we are
on the right track.
There were a few things that the speaker mention that I was unhappy
about. The first is that you can get a workshop only after your junior
year, sophomore if you’re lucky. The main reason for that is because as
freshmen, we still need to get adjusted to college and figure out what
we want to do. I guess that makes sense, but I really want to start
gaining experience on my possible major, as soon as possible. Another
thing mentioned was that in order to even speak to her we need to have
practice with interviews and resumes, but in order to do that we need
workshops for that as well. I already have a resume and I’ve had several
job interviews so I feel that I am somewhat prepared. All I need from
her is help to find an internship. However I guess there’s a good reason
for making us go through this whole process.
Overall, I found this workshop to be very helpful. Also, since there was
a student at the workshop who told us about the great internship he
received though the STARR center, it convinced me that all of this
actually works and is as helpful as it sounds.