Journal 1st Entry – Mohamad

I started the internship with the Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) last semester, and since I am taking my internship class this semester, I requested to expand my internship and it was accepted. There is no graphic design department here, actually there was one but they decided to get rid of it right before I come here. So it is me and another girl called Caroline that comes on different day, we are the only designers in the department, where each take different tasks. The supervisors are so nice around here and you don’t find that strict work environment over here. You see everybody is chatting, laughing working together. This really made me comfortable and broke the fear/uncomfortable wall that I had in the beginning. I got to know everybody right away and everybody was so nice to me. For this week I had to do couple of things, continue working on the ABC’s of Housing booklet, designed a couple of flyers of events that were happening this week, but I finished working so fast so they told me that they have no more task for me for the week, so I had to do extra work different than graphic design, such as excel or word projects, I even went to the print shop that they have in the building and helped them over there. I am happy that I am gaining different experiences working here, I will definitely be delighted to add them to my resume.

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  1. Joel Mason

    You have to give your readers “the big picture” before going into details. What does HPD do? Why is it important? What was involved in designing the ABC’s of Housing Booklet? These are the type of questions you need to answer in much more detail. I’d also suggest that you try writing shorter sentences. Take a look at the chapter in Rules of Thumb on run-on sentences and sentence fragments.

    Professor Mason

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