Week 5

My second week at the internship was interesting. I met some new people and worked with them. Since this week, we have had an International Women’s Day event. Every year, the organization celebrates this event to appreciate the women in the workforce. Due to the pandemic, the event has been hosted online for the last two years. However, this year, they could get the yes to hosting an in-person international women’s day event with, of course, following the COVID 19 guidelines. I couldn’t participate in the event due to personal reasons; however, I got an opportunity to work on some designs for the event.

We had to get everything ready, meaning designs needed to be final and event preparations of what you would need at the event. I had to complete the final stages of the International Women’s Day Flyer, redesign signage, and design new signage we would need at the event. Besides that, I was allowed to design the front cover of the Collective Endeavor magazine that they release every semester.

I found it interesting, but at the same time, I was afraid of the results. I intend to think of what if they don’t like it or what if it doesn’t look good. However, I realized there was no time for that and had to do it while trusting that I would do well.

Redesign Signage
Fixed color for flyer
Redesign Signage

Week 4

It was my first day at my internship. My internship must be on-site; however, you need to be vaccinated. Since it was the first day, I didn’t know what to expect. Given some tasks to look and fix some changes for their magazine that they would release soon. I had to design a new card for one of the sponsors in the magazine. It took me a while to use InDesign since they had the older version. I fixed the changes and asked my boss to look at them again before finalizing the design changes. It took me a while to get things done for designing because of how detail-oriented I can be. I tend to overthink and fix the small details.

I started doing my readings and found some interesting points where I could learn and improve myself. As an introvert, talking to new people is one of the biggest challenges. The book pinpoints that people typically talk in small groups while ignoring the fact that meeting new people can change/give an opportunity, and we tend to miss that. Meeting new people was a way to connect, but the problem was starting the conversation. This relates to how I find it challenging to talk to my coworkers because I usually don’t initiate. It isn’t easy, and the reading explains how there are different ways to go about it.

Redesign Chiropractor Business card

Week 3

I finally got an internship, which is at Women’s Press Collective. Women’s Press Collective is a non-profit organization. Their organization helps the low-income working community, as well as giving a voice to the ones who don’t have one to see there is an issue. Women’s Press Collective’s mission is to tell the truth when false information is being distributed in that climate. WPC’s slogan is  “WPC is telling the truth in a climate of disinformation.”

The internship that I wanted has not replied to me yet, and I realized I might not even get a spot anywhere else if I kept waiting. So I had to rethink my process plan, and I found the Women’s press collective on the school blog. I was hesitant to call them because I was running the “what ifs” in my head. As well as, I wouldn’t say I like talking on the phone. However, I mustered up my courage and decided to call them. It went through, and they asked if I was available to come in for an orientation that same week I called.

On the orientation day, I had to wake up extra early to know my route. I wasn’t familiar with the location on the upper west side of Bronx. When I got there, I’m not going to say I wasn’t nervous because that is a lie. I was feeling anxious, stressed, and wanted to run away. Anything you can think of, I was and was ready to leave. I knew that it was normal to feel nervous, so I was greeted with a warm welcome when I went to the site. I think that’s when I slowly let my nervousness go a little by little. Orientation happened for about an hour or so before leaving for work.

Week 2

In the second week of the course, I’m still waiting for emails saying I got an internship. However, it is still the waiting game that is happening. In my mind, if I didn’t get an internship, I feel like I might fail this class anytime soon. Stress was piling on me and anxiety, so I decided to revise my portfolio. If I felt like my work wasn’t good enough, I tried to make my portfolio a little better if possible. With this habit I gained, I would try to develop mini-projects to do or improve on my projects.

Week 1

Before taking this class, I thought I would fail since I didn’t have an internship. I heard from others that we had to have an internship going into this class already. This led to me thinking that I would fail or I couldn’t take this class. However, when taking this class, I was relieved when Professor Goetz said we had time to look for an internship. I was a little stressed over not having an internship yet, and I had applied to many different ones. The challenging part begins because it is the start of the waiting game.