Week 5

I learned that I work very well in things that I like. I also learned about how well it is for me to talk to new people at work. I also realized how happy of a person I am. I knew that I have been motivated to succeed and become a certain person, but didn't realize how optimistic and generally happy I am. I especially learned this through the waybook posts and at work.

I realized that I don't really pay that much attention to my income and expenses. I never really spend a bunch of money often on random things, but I noticed that I tend to buy snacks and lunches too often when I could be saving up my money for necessary things that might come in the future.

Through my work, I learned a huge amount of valuable career related information. I saw that processes through which buildings are designed, calculated for natural disaster preventions, and built. I also so how it would be to work in a structural engineering office and the setting that came with it. I noticed through my job how easy it was for me to talk to my new coworkers and with clients when I went on field inspections. I also became a lot more familiar with using Google related sites such as; slides, sites, and docs.

I realize now looking back at this experience how grateful and lucky I am for being able to have such a good learning experience this summer. I was able to go to a job where I learned a lot of things related to the career that I have been wanted since middle school. I realize how lucky I am to be able to have the freedom to go to a job environment and gain an upper hand not only with putting this experience on resumes and applications, but an upper hand with all the knowledge gained this summer.

Blog #5

I am definitely grateful to have had this internship and this class. My internship taught me that I can make a difference even though I'm not yet an adult. I was able to observe and make recommendations at the Marin farmers markets. After presenting, I have been working to implement what I thought would be useful. This internship really helped me step outside my comfort zone and grow as a person.
From this class, I am most thankful for the budgeting advice. I may not completely understand all of it, but I haven't thought much about my budget so it was great to start doing this. I know I'll start to pay more attention to how I spend my money. I can monitor if I'm spending on "wants" or "needs." Overall, I am very happy to have had the opportunities I did this summer. This could be a great way of starting a career I never knew I really wanted.

Blog #5

I am extremely grateful for the incredible opportunities I have been given over this summer in both my internship and the school to career academy class. Although I could've spent my summer simply playing video games and hanging out with friends, I am more than glad that I chose to learn about how to grow and progress in my career over these past 5 weeks. I'm content that I have finally got to experience the life of a novice engineer, and relieved that I got to learn about the career life and my future altogether, through the school to career academy.

I learned that I can work fast and proficiently on my projects, but I often make mistakes because I misunderstand the directions given. Through writing down my budget plan, I had learned that I spend tons of money on junk food and video games, as well as other needless entertainment, and that I should try saving up as much money as possible instead. I feel incredibly lucky to have gotten this opportunity to take both an engineering internship a school to career academy class. I am a lot more ready for life and my career, all thanks to these amazing opportunities that I have been given and am looking forward to succeeding in my future.

Blog #5: Graditude

I am grateful for many things. I am grateful for the life I live, considering I have a roof over my head and a family who cares about me I would say I have a lot to be grateful for. I have access to some very amazing opportunities, such as the internship I participated in this summer. Interning at Earthscope Media has been very enjoyable. I really enjoyed learning how to edit audio, and having to do all the research was really eye opening. In the career management class this summer I appreciate that we can walk away from it with a really good start on a resume and other skills that will help us with future careers. I think that if I did not involve myself in this experience this summer, I would have spent more time goofing off. I'm happy that I didn't spend my summer doing nothing and instead put myself in a new and exiting experience which I gained a lot of knowledge from.

I didn't learn a lot of new information about myself since I already knew most of the basic strengths and weaknesses that I posses. It was interesting to write about myself over Waybook, since I don't usually talk about my strengths and successes. In the career management class I learned a lot of how to network myself so that I can set myself up for a better and more successful future. I also learned how to use the new websites that were introduced to me, such as Blogger,and Waybook.

In my internship at Earthscope Media I learned and developed on my communication skills. I think that people interaction skills are some of the most important skills for everyone to have, so I found myself really enjoying doing the interviews. I also think it was rewarding to do all the research that we did since it taught me a lot about the environment I was not aware of. Overall I think that the internship and career management class gave me a great experience that helped me grow as a person and gave me many skills that I can use in the future looking for jobs or other internships.

Blog #5

This summer I have learned so much about who I am as a professional, and who I want to be in the future. My internship has taught me so much about a field I'm interested in pursuing, and I could not be more pleased by how successful it has been. I think this was the best internship for engineering I could have had this summer and I would repeat it in a heartbeat. Spiral Water is a growing company, so they really needed my help and I got hands on, high level experience in many areas of engineering. I learned from very interesting, intelligent people, and it is very cool to have built relationships with. I'm grateful for the people I work with there, especially my supervisor who took time to give me a engineering lectures covering material I will be learning in college someday. At first I thought this class was slow-moving, but now I see that thoughtful reflection and understanding takes time, and I feel like I learned a lot about myself and am well-prepared for the real world. 

By analyzing strengths and weaknesses, I was able to identify things I was good at, like communication and dedication, and apply them to my work, but also identify things I needed to work on, and use the internship as a platform for improvement. I understood my values, passions, and aspects of my personality very well, but I had never tried to really articulate them and rank them like I did in the course. It is helpful to better understand myself, and always keep in mind how I view things and what's important to me.

This internship helped further my career readiness skills, but I believe that they will continue to grow as I experience more and more opportunities and workplaces. I believe that my weaknesses now have to do with who I am, and therefore I should continue to work on them. 

Discoveries forced me to take tests that analyzed who I am, but they also made me reflect on the answers. Reflecting made me understand and internalize the results. Reading them is one thing, but to take a step back and ask, "Okay, but why?", helped me put it all together and make connections about aspects of my personality.

The class used many technological platforms to access and produce information. I had experience with these before, but it was interesting to see how I could use them symbiotically to create a student profile that grew with me. 

Having had a lot of professional experience in my past, (jobs, job shadows, internship, etc), I think I had strong career readiness skills. It was still very important to work on them and always use them as motivation to perform well at my internship.

I am so grateful for this experience. I have learned so much from the class, and my internship was an irreplaceable, incredible opportunity. The internship allowed me to discover the field I want to pursue, and was a great adventure that taught me more than I dreamed of learning. 

Week 5 Homework

Both in class and at my internship I learned that I am a much better worker when I am comfortable in the environment that I am working in. I learned that I can be more comfortable in this environment when I get to know the people around me. I was able to learn about the career readiness skills and how I use them in class, and then I was able to put them to use at my internship and also improve them. I definitely  improved my literacy in many programs like blogger and also some google applications like google sites. I valued the class time that we spent doing financial planning because that is most likely the only place that I would be able to prepare for the future financially. I am definitely grateful that I was able to take this class and participate in my internship because it is a great experience that not everyone gets to have.

Blog Post #5- Reflection

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  I felt like this experience of doing an internship and taking this career pathway academy class were extremely valuable. I was able to gain insight on what it is really like to work in the exact field that I hope to go into. My internship made me even more sure that becoming a veterinarian is something that I want to do. I was also able to learn the basics of what goes on in an animal hospital, which will be an advantage when I start my education/career as a veterinarian. Most importantly, my internship allowed me to improve my career readiness skills. I learned how to act professionally at a job, communicate with others, and act appropriately in the workplace. Before this internship, I had little work experience, but now I feel as though I would be comfortable getting a job and working. I also got much better at being assertive and asking questions because before I would refrain from asking questions and instead try to figure it out on my own. My internship also helped me become more confident around new people and in new situations. It can be intimidating going into a new place with lots of adults you've never met before, but this experience has made me better at being confident in those situations because if you seem confident, others won't see you as the nervous new person. Overall, I thought this internship was great because I learned a ton and had a lot of fun.
  
  
  The career pathway academy class also helped prepare me for life by providing me with financial skills, technical skills, people skills, and information about myself. I learned the importance of planning for the future and setting goals because they help ensure that you will accomplish the things you want to accomplish throughout your life. Throughout class, we did a variety of activities that provided us with information about ourselves, such as our values, strengths, weaknesses, personality, and passions. This allowed us to see what things we had to work on and what things we were good at. For example, I learned that I do not value or appreciate beauty and art very much. I can use this information to work on this and take my time and appreciate the little things. Throughout this class I learned how to use blogger to share my ideas with my peers, create a LinkedIn profile, write a cover letter, and improve my resume. All of those skills are valuable aspects that can help me get jobs in the future.
  
  
  Overall, I feel like this experience has been extremely valuable because it taught me an extensive amount of skills that are essential to life. If I hadn't done this internship and class this summer, I probably would have spent most of my time doing things with little value. I was able to learn all these new skills and ideas, which will give me an advantage because I already have some work experience. I am so grateful to have had this experience and I would highly recommend this program to anyone who wants to learn how to be a good employee and gain work experience.