Week Seven

This week started a bit slow. I arrived five minutes early which usually isn't an issue because I simply pick up where I left off on a project and continue until my boss and or Erica give me a different assignment. However, I had finished all previous assignments and now sat at my desk killing time waiting for either my boss or Erica to arrive and let me know what it was I was to work on that week. This waiting took a bit longer than I would have liked, but in this time I was able to answer some emails. 

Once Erica finally arrived, she asked me asked to transfer information from a horizontal layout into a vertical one. This didn't take too long but I did have to ask for permission to get into the image server of the company. 

Another task I was asked to do this week was to look into transferring information from an Excel sheet and creating a data base from which to easily find this information. This took a lot of work since I have never before created any type of database. But after some online research as well as asking my business school friends back home, I had various solutions. One after another I tried. Most failed because they were either too confusing to figure out or they didn't have the tools I was looking for in a search engine database. Finally, I came to the solution of making a private website with interlinking links to said information. Creating this took a very long time but in the end it looked very clean and professional. Unfortunately, Erica decided (after having shown her the short preview) that transferring all the information from the data sheet would take too long. Thus, I am still on the lookout for an easy database forming program. 

This week was very busy with independent research (specifically when looking into all that database work), but what still continues to amaze me is all the varied jobs that I am asked to do and they do themselves and how it all interconnects through the different companies/projects they work for and the different departments at the company of my internship. As always, I expect the following weeks to be just as busy and with just or more varied work. I am a bit bummed that my website idea didn't pan out, though. It was really fun creating it from scratch (that is after I got the hang of how the program ran). I do hope that through my continuous research I will find a good and easy program from which to better create the data base, which will continue to be part of my job here at my internship.