Final reflection 5/19/2008

Did you meet your goals?
Well i didnt have any goals in my intership to accomplish but any way there are always goals in life depending in what you do and that happened to me i didnt know anything about my intership but i learned a lot things that i know will help at least to get a job in NYU Medical center.

What are the most important things you’ve learned?
The most important things i learned was how to be more serious about your job and also how to get use to things that you dont want to do but you have to do it because will help you later on, like this intership another important thing i learned was how to be more respectful and helpful to customers that needs help and also almost everything about verification site.

In what ways have your grown?
Some way i have grown are, being more responsible and also how to care about your job and to be more helpful and pacific with people.

What were the highlights of your internship experience?
Some of my experiences in my intership were work with people that you dont even know and also get to a place where evverybody is looking at like you are gonna steal something is very hard.

If you can, describe a memorable moment or experience.
Well a memorable day was the first day of work it was very hard i was ashamed and very nervous is something that i will never forget.

What challenges did you overcome?
Some of the challenges i overcame was how to do my assingments because sometimes they were vey hard and i was scared because i didnt want to make mistakes but after i was very sure about what i was doing and i was doing a good job.

What advice would you give a new intern at this site?
Well a good advice would that they need to take it seriously and be responsible working hard like if they wre getting money for it.

What will you miss about your internship?
Somethig i will miss about my intership is myy mentor and also the way i used to work because i felt like i was like an important person already and also my cowworkers.

Daily post 5/8/2008

OLD: Something old i did this week was filing answering calls and also going to the hospital.

OLD: I was working with immigration checking some paper works and making sure they were completely filled.

NEW:I didnt do anything new this week

NEW:I did do anything new this week

my mentor's interview

. What is your full name?
My mentor's name is kimberly Ma.

2. Where are you from?
She is from Staten Island

3. Where did you go to college? For how long? Do you plan to go back to school?
Nyack college for 4 years , and yes she wants to go back to school this fall for nursing.

4. (If the interviewee went to college)…What was your major in college and what kind of degree do you earn?
My mentor studied theology and intercultural studies and got Bachelors degree.

5. Why did you choose that field?
She couldnt find many jobs oppotunities relating to intercultural studies most of her jobs expenence is in administration so she knew she would be able to learn quickly and do this jjob well.

7. Why did you choose this job?
she had a good supervisor and it was a good opportunity to gain work experience and pay for loans.

8. How long have you worked here?
She has been working for 8 months.

9. What is your job title?
Her job title is project assistant.

10. What do your duties include? Or What kinds of work does your job involve?
Her main duty is to verify employment information to outside companies othher responsiblities include inputting data into th system trackers, filing managing paper work.

11. What are some of the challenges you have faced working here?
Any job that involves customer service usually brings fustration.

12. What is the best part of your job?
She likes her cowworkers.

13. What is something you would like to change about your job?
She says no filing but everything else is ok.

14. Did you work somewhere else before this job? Where? For how long? How was that similar/different?
N/A

15. What do you see as your future with this company?
There is a lot of rooms for growth and promotion but unfotunately i will only be with NYU the end of the summer.

Daily post 4/29/08

Today is tuesday like usual another day in my intership, today i was working in the verification department i didnt do actually nothing because we were supposed to be working in other department so we didnt go because there weren ready and my mentor didnt have anything for us but we tried to do something me and greg started filing like crazy some files, but it was cool because we spent some tim talikng with my mentor

Daily post 4/28/08

Today is monday it was a very bored day in my intership i was working by myself because greg was in vacation but, is ok i wasworking with immigratin the whole day i was busy putting information into the trackers in the computer which is very easy i just have to check if everything is by the order and write who checked the file it is very easy but very boring today the day went fast cause that kept me busy thanks god, after a wonderful vacation i went back to my intership not fun at all.

Weekly Vocab April 4 04/18/2008

1. Word / Phrase:Exuberance

Meaning: Excessive zeal;

Context: I founf this word in a document that miss Arti game in sat prep.

2. Word / Phrase: Fallacious

Meaning: False; misleading.

Context: I found this word in my sat prep on friday.

3. Word :Fanaticism

Meaning: Overflowing abudance; joyful enthusiasm


Context: I was readin a book and i found this word i thought is important

4. Word / Phrase: Fastidious

Meaning: when somebody is very anoying or bother a lot

Context: I found this word in sat prep.

5. Word / Phrase:Fervor

Meaning:Glowing ardor;; intensity of feeling

Context: I found this word reading an article in sat prep.

Daily post 04/16/08

Today is wednesday one of the days that i most love because is the last of the internship during the week because i dont work in thursdays, today i want the hospital to delivey some files and also to get some from there too it was vey cool because i was outside almost by one hour which is not bad for me,then i came back to my intership and there was nothing to do just a couple files to put in the trackers which was very easy to do and then the time was gone and i had to go home.;