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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!

On Friday I went to QHS to attend math classes all morning with Claudia. Each class was more or less the same lesson but the way each class perceived it and interacted with the material was always different. One class was very anxious to understand the material they made lines for questions and the study groups were easy to identify. Another class refused to do the work and instead decided to play the ukelele. Clau was okay with this because this was the longest period of the day. So we split up the class into people who wanted to work and get it done and people who would focus on a part of the class work for the second half of the period and for homework. There are so many things going on in Argentina that makes me want to be an international teacher. Church and state are not separated here so presidents are required to follow the teachings of Catholicism. This means that Abortion is not legal in Argentina. The children in senior 2b were having a conversation with me about this and they explained the families living in poverty with low access to education have girls who are often pregnant at the age of 12. Sometimes it is because of sexual violations or because of the lack of access to sexual education in the public school system.

In the afternoon I went to QHS primary school which is where the younger children are. They were getting ready for the end of the year performance in August for chorus so they sang me two songs. After in order to practice their Spanish the group of kids were split into groups wh were they each gave me an interview. After I went to spend time in the teachers’ lounge where i was able to have more insightful conversation about once again politics, Macri, Christina, and the events happening in the United States. QHS primary head Valerie was able to introduce me to Doloris a teacher who participated in a program for international teachers. She was willing to help me out and hopefully, I will be traveling back to Buenos Aires for a month program and training for international teaching. Lastly, I went to the house meeting. QHS gets all their teachings from Cambridge so that is why a lot of their traditions may seem British. Students are identified by houses, Hudson, Livingston, Shackleton. Every few weeks they have house meetings where students get effort pins, merit pins, neatness pins, etc and each house builds up points. Then the house with the most points wins.

Today I got to finish writing my report and will present it to the principal later on in the week. Even though the ‘internship part’ of my time here is over I will continue going to school and teaching classes for the next two weeks or so. I have learned a lot here and I don’t think a minute of my time was wasted here. I have had a lot of fun teaching classes and observing the different structure of classes here. There are a lot of similarities and a lot of differences and it would be impossible to say that one is better than the other. Academically both schools strive for the best and morally both schools want their students to be respectful and responsible. Through multiple presentations and a report it is easy for me to see the high level of academics at this school and the goals that they are striving towards. This is an experience that I will never forget!

I shadowed at the front desk this morning, and since it was a pretty busy day, they had a lot to do. They had a lot of calls, appointment check-ins/check-outs, and referrals to take care of. After that, I observed treatment on patients with shoulder and knee injuries. The entire staff at BreakThrough Physical Therapy then had a meeting from 1PM-2PM during their lunch break. After the meeting, they were back on a full schedule. I shadowed multiple patients with glute, back and neck injuries. Kenny discussed the reasons behind why his was having pain and tenderness in certain areas, emphasizing that he didn’t have enough blood flow to these muscles that are attached to the rib. I was also able to observe dry needling done in these areas. He explained to me that the longer needles were used in areas around the pelvis, while the shorter needles were used in more shallow muscles such as the neck. Since a woman’s pelvic muscles are convex around the pelvis, they need even longer needles than those used on men in order to reach the deeper muscles.

Today is our last day at SAS, but unfortunately, Ms. Holland was feeling a bit under the weather so she couldn’t make it. Instead, we were introduced to a manager in the same building named Craig. Craig has been with SAS for a very long time. We talked to him in great depth about how he got to SAS, and it was quite an interesting story. We discussed many things, from how a team is managed to how a product is developed. We spent the first 2 hours of the day with him, but at noon Ryan and I had to get to bulding A. When we got there, we met our entire team from Cary Academy in a meeting room. We got our last lunch at SAS, and we went back up to the same meeting room. We started our presentations of the projects which we had started last week. Teo, David, and I were the first to present, and the presentation went well. The rest of the groups went after us, and they all did well too. Overall, I feel that my work experience at SAS was a great experience because it provided me with the perfect exposure to the corporate world, and I will definitely miss all the people I got a chance to get close with there.

 

Today we met with a few more people in the developement department. First we met with Jerry to learn about developement on a different product, and he talked to us about what goes into developing a product. We also met with Max, a developer on the algorithmic and theoretic part of the product, which analyzes the data. Max talked to us about what he does and how. We also discussed colleges. Afterwards, we went to eat lunch in building A and we ran into Mrs. Jones from Cary Academy! After lunch, Paige took me and Ryan to go see Dr. Goodnight’s amazing gemstone collection. He has over 400 rare gemstones on display from all over the world. Unfortunately, tomorrow would be our last day in SAS’s technical field. We learned a lot, and headed home for the day.

Today was my last day of Work Experience at Tergus Pharma. We spent all of our time in the analytical department and lab. We worked with a placebo of a drug (with no active drug component) and we worked on validating it. Analytical has three sub-sections. First, there is method development, then validation, and lastly quality control. These three groups work together to first come up with a method, then test the method, and the finally just use the method. Since we worked in validation, we got to prepare placebo samples and then test them in an HPLC (high-performance liquid chromatography) machine. It was a really hands-on day, and it was a lot of fun.