🌱 Internship Portfolio: Skills

The skills I developed during this internship experience include communication, time management, and independence. Communication with my supervisor and co-workers depended entirely through email and video calls. To my supervisor, I sent weekly reports, sharing what I had done, future plans, and questions. Because I tend to either bulldoze through tasks or ruminate on the details, remembering to take a step back, reflect, and move forward was an experience I’m thankful for.

While I have been tracking my time for a few years, designating time that qualified as part of my internship was challenging. Unlike STEM coursework, an assignment with a creative writing component requires patience. Inspiration may strike at any time and ideas need to be cultivated in one’s mind with time and attention. Thus, I had to be conscientious and liberal about focusing on the writing aspects of my internship outside the initial designated hours.

Because of the remote nature of this internship, I was given the flexibility to decide my day-to-day tasks and goals. For example, I could brainstorm and design ideas for the website under loose constraints, making full use of my web development experience till then. Similarly, I was able to shift my attention into the website refresh, a project which I had already taken several notes on before the official start of the internship.