The power was back on today!!! In the morning, I sat in on some meetings and helped Michelle unpack a new shipment of MicroPEMs. During lunch, I attended a “Lunch and Learn”, and I later found out the guy who gave the talk is my dad’s friend so that was interesting. Anyways, the talk was about how to be a better leader/manager of people, and mainly revolved around 3 “soft skills”: listen, ask, connect. He talked a lot about how these skills affect different parts of our brain, which I had never really thought/heard about when thinking about leadership. The audience was really involved, and I saw later in the day already these skills being applied.
In the afternoon, I watched Nalyn (research tech) seed lung cells and we looked at them under the microscope, which was really cool since the last time I used a microscope was to look at an onion layer in freshman biology class. My time was cut short, however, as I went to talk with Ginger, Kiera, and Madisen about our time at RTI and our mini-projects. It was a great way to reflect, and I realized how important my time at RTI was. Being in the real work-place and experiencing different careers is way different than reading about them on a website; this internship was truly eye-opening for what I am actually looking for in a career, and also eye-opening in the sense that everyone genuinely has an original path in how they got where they are today. Excited but also sad for tomorrow, as my time at RTI is coming to a close.
