🌱 Internship Portfolio: Personal Reflections

Accomplishments

One of my first accomplishments in this internship is refreshing a website that wasn’t my own. I condensed the site’s header and footer, redesigned the News and People sections, and did slight touch-ups to the rest of the pages. To image heavy-pages, I identified the lack of alt-text and encouraged my supervisor to describe context-heavy pictures by explaining the importance of accessibility.

Challenges

One of my biggest challenges during this internship has been overcoming writer’s block. While I have no problem writing anecdotal stories, factual stories using a report-style has been a struggle for years. I worried that what I had to say had no value and feared judgement. I was able to overcome it by reading the words of people who shared opinions I heavily disagree with, people who write for a living or hold personal blogs. If they could speak their convictions so loud, then why me, who is so confident about the morality of their beliefs, couldn’t I do it? It’s not that I was encouraged to speak against them but encouraged to share my experience and beliefs with my voice just like them.