Roman Internship

This was it! My last week at my internship! I cannot believe that it's already been three months! Time flew! And to think how much I have learned in these short months compared to how much I learn on a regular school year back home. It's amazing how much jumping off a cliff out of your comfort zone does for you :D Anyway, I was right about my last week in my internship: I did have to continue working on projects as if nothing was happening, as if I was going to continue coming back. There was no wrap up mini session just a submission of my last assignment and a cordial good bye. It was neat to see how, like the saying in show business goes, the show must go on. And it did! In my past experiences working there is always a small good bye party or at least small parting gifts. This was a fresh difference to what I was expecting. We are all here to work and work we must :) My last assignment for my internship was to go back through the project that I was put in charge of a coup...

This week, my boss was not in the entire week. Thus, I did everything with and through Erica. She mentioned that the infograph that I had done for last week's assignment was a good start but that our boss' boss wanted to make it one congruent visual graph than four separate ones. So, this was my assignment for the week, figure out how to synthesize four fountains of information into one. Thankfully, our boss' boss had a concrete example of what he wanted. This made things a lot easier but it was still difficult to transpose the information about level of executives, money spent on the program, the degree of change that the client had, and the success of the program. The example our boss' boss had given us was in relationship to tree leaves and their abundance during the different seasons. That is why the example helped piece together what the infograph should LOOK like but it did not help at all in how to arrange the content within the graph. After brainstorming and ...