First assignment

This week, our team had our second meeting. It was a short meeting, just a brief explanation of what we can do at the moment. We finally received the worksheet, which means the internship is officially starting. Since Manjie, Tarique, and I joined the internship team later, there isn’t much for us to design yet. Dariann and John, who joined earlier, have started organizing data for the fact sheet and creating a heat map. Although we joined later, we still have tasks this week: learning Brooklyn College’s brand guidelines and submitting our bios. We are also on call.

Brooklyn College’s brand guidelines, or visual identity guidelines, include not only the logo but also color, typography, and graphic elements. They detail the uses and restrictions for each component. The Brooklyn College logo has specific proportions and font designs. It shows various permissible logo and background color combinations and how to correctly use the logo in designs. The main official college colors are maroon and gold, with the primary marketing colors being two darker shades of maroon, along with black and white, totaling five colors. The secondary marketing colors include twelve additional colors, providing more options for designers. The guidelines list four commonly used fonts for different purposes, such as labels and body copy, each with its designated role. There is much more to explore and learn from Brooklyn College’s visual identity guidelines.

After accepting the internship offer from Brooklyn College, I welcomed my first meeting. This is a very brief meeting, and I also noticed that my classmates from the same internship class have joined this internship, Manjie, and John. Isana was pleased to announce during the meeting that she had finally gathered five interns, and soon our internship was about to begin. Then she asked us to introduce ourselves to each other and get to know each other. I was the first to introduce myself, and I was a bit nervous, which led to my self-introduction being quite lengthy. I feel a bit awkward because I found that the self-introductions of the remaining four classmates only need to introduce their names. After the self-introduction, Isana briefly talked about our work. The formal work meeting will be arranged by her, and she will send us our work schedule around next Monday or later. Currently, two students have started their internship work because they joined earlier. And I have two other classmates who joined the team late. This week, we will study the brand guidelines of Brooklyn College. Towards the end, Isana reminded us to reply to our respective email addresses, phone numbers, and bio in the email we received from the email that she sent. Afterward, we leave the Zoom meeting

I am already looking forward to my internship career.

Brooklyn College interview

I was excited when I received a response from supervisor Isana, who is responsible for coordinating with the Brooklyn College Institutional Effectiveness internship. I accepted her interview and scheduled a time for the interview. The night before the interview, I became nervous. This was my first formal interview. I started practicing self-introduction and analyzing the types of questions she might ask in the interview based on the recruitment content. I was in a tense state all night, afraid of making some mistakes and missing out on my ideal internship.

On the morning of the interview, I entered the Zoom meeting two or three minutes early to wait. I hope to give Isana a good impression of being punctual. After the interview, Isana first introduced herself and then introduced the job responsibilities and job responsibilities of this internship. Isana is a very friendly and gentle person, which greatly alleviates my tense emotions. She said they want to recruit three graphic design and two video editing interns for this job. She asked me if I had any experience in video editing or video production. And my answer is that I have taken relevant courses before, but now I am not very familiar with them. After hearing my answer, she had some questions and asked me if I should be familiar with video editing because she remembered it was written in the skill on my resume. However, I am starting to feel confused because I remember there was no relevant content on my resume. It was when she reviewed my resume again that she realized she had confused Adobe Premiere and Adobe Lightroom, thinking they were all software for creating videos. And then, Isana said it’s okay to directly edit videos on TikTok, as video editing on TikTok is easy to learn and learn. When she finally asked me what question she had, I answered truthfully, that I didn’t have questions because you had already answered my question in the previous conversation. She is very happy because it means she didn’t miss anything.

During the interview, she helped me review my resume, cover letter, and portfolio and provided some suggestions to help me improve. First of all, there is the cover letter. She said that the overall cover letter is good, but there are some issues with the leading, so it would be better to widen it. Next is my resume, she pointed out another thing that neither Professor Tanya nor I noticed, which is that the portfolio link on my resume is connected to my email instead of my portfolio website. Then she has a suggestion as Professor Tanya said which is adding more graphic elements. Finally, there is the portfolio. Fortunately, the portfolio link was added when sending the internship application email. Otherwise, I might have missed the opportunity directly. Isana praised my portfolio for not having any issues and also praised my graphics for doing a great job. Thank you very much for Isana’s advice and for having good communication and interview with her.