I’ve been at my internship for quite a while, about two years now so I’m beginning to get different responsibilities. To give a summary, I work with the Faculty Commons Design team for Citytech. When I originally started at this internship we worked in an office in the Citytech building, but the pandemic changed that halfway into my second semester with the team. Since the pandemic hit, quite a few of the full time designers on the team have left and I am now starting to become one of the senior designers on the team.
Since many designers have been leaving, we also have been hiring more and at this point I would say we currently have the most interns I have seen on the team since I joined. Due to this I now am taking more of a leadership role on the team. Me and 3 of the other senior designers now have the responsibility of overseeing the newer interns. Our roles include emailing them for status updates, joining them on zoom meetings and critiquing their work.
Aside from overseeing the new interns, on week 2 I did not do much of my own work. At the beginning of every semester we generally re-contact our clients and wait for them to get adjusted before working.
I’ve attached a photo of a discord server(messaging channel) that me and the senior designers created to keep in contact with the newer interns.
