9/8/22 - Starting Again

    Today was the first day back at the internship, so we were mainly catching up and talking about new developments and changes. Now they have a gift shop and some people have moved around departments and there are new faces. It was nice to see everybody again after the summer and re-establish things like using slack, which took some time due to technical difficulties, or other things like MyImpact where we track our hours and volunteering. We talked about what we are doing in school, now that I am a junior, and our odyssey trip, as well as J and M-term stuff which they were interested about, going over things like Jeremy's Singapore M-term. The biggest thing we did, however, was the goal setting and interest form. We completed this form when we started our internship last year, but we did it again because after a year, goals and interests change so we filled out the form again. It was quite an involved form where we had to spell out what work and professional related goals we wanted to strive towards. These are things like communication or information presentation skills, and it ranged from hard skills to soft skills. Overall, we didn't do much actual work because there was a lot to do in the catching up and housecleaning department, but it was all necessary to start the year off on the right foot.

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