Author: lara_crochik

For the last days of the symphony I did two new things:

• Went and heard a fellow intern present on his internship
• Helped put things into storage

Today was an exciting morning! I started the day by FINALLY finishing entering all the information from the “Enter to Win” slips into the Excel. When I was done, it was time for the pizza party! They had a pizza party to celebrate National Intern Day (a day early). After that was over, I was introduced to a machine that made the little girl inside of me who wanted to work in the post office very happy!!! I spent the rest of the day using this machine (which stamps envelopes and closes them). Look at how many I did!

Today I worked Summerfest. Summerfest is a concert series that happens every summer and is sponsored by the NC Symphony. Usually the orchestra plays, but this time it was beach music. Beach music is a genre I had never heard of before but it was interesting. My responsibilities included setting up the marketing booth, picking out who won the contest for “Picnic of the Week”, drawing the winner for  “Enter to Win”, etc. It was an awesome experience!

Day 5 has been the most different day of all! I started the day by editing the “Enter to Win slips”. Then, I spent all day “shadowing” the other intern. Lauren and I went on errands to drop off and pick up stuff for the office. When we got back, we prepared stuff for Summerfest.

Although my tasks have been the same every day, here are the updates on what was different:

• I attended the Marketing meeting where they planned their advertising for the August and September shows. This allowed me to see the budgeting of their advertisement and the things they took into consideration.
• I ate lunch with the other interns in the kitchen (but with food from the sandwich shop across the hall). It was nice to talk to them and they gave me lots of advice about college.

Tomorrow we’ll set stuff up for Summerfest which I’ll be working Saturday.

Today the day started off with intern orientation! After a short meeting, I got straight to work on the same things as yesterday. For lunch I went to B. Good, just like my work experience for the INDY Week. Today was similar to yesterday with the exception of the lights flickering during the storm.

I started my first day of this internship in one of the fanciest buildings I have ever seen in North Carolina… it made me so nervous! When I first got there, I got a tour of the office and got to meet everyone who works there. Afterwards, we set up the computer I was using and my desk. I got right to work on two tasks. The first was an archiving any articles that mention the NC Symphony. This took a long time and I have even more to do tomorrow. The second was typing up the information written on these giveaway cards into an excel. At around 2pm, I went to go grab lunch at the restaurant across the hall. It was one of the best sandwiches I’ve ever had! After getting back, I worked some more and left at 4pm. It was a great and busy first day!