July | 2018 | F.M. Kirby Experiential Learning Stipend Recipient Blogs

Week 7 at CrossRoads (blog 8)

This week was exciting in terms of my project at CrossRoads! I feel confident that at this point my curriculum, which I have been working on for the past eight weeks in addition to the other intern duties, is at the point in which it can be presented to high school students. While unfortunately since…

Week Four at Shoreline, Beverly Hills

Each week I spend working with Shoreline, the more I learn about the how much the company actually does (which is a lot). As it turns out, in addition to their production, sales, and distribution services Shoreline also has a literary management team. On the literary management side Shoreline, represents up and coming writers and…

Week #6 :)

Last week was really a great week. I got to interact more and learn more about the two new girls that were just hired, Danielle and Kayla, and form even stronger relationships with the other members of the research team. With that being said, the culture within the Emergency Medicine Research Department is very supportive…

Week 8

I’m not going to be imaging the new samples in my immunohistochemistry research until Tuesday but here are some pictures of the initial results that were promising. The most recent assay focused upon shaving away as much excess epithelium and connective tissue as possible- in some of these images it is unknown whether the brain…

Exciting Projects on the Horizon!

It is fascinating to learn the culture of a company, in my case, of a nonprofit organization. As Meghan Hayden mentions, “culture is essentially how things are done in your company.” The first observation I have made of the culture in Charlotte Center for Legal advocacy is that everyone is flexible. Because there are less…

Week 5: Making Progress with the Charlotte City Council

So far, two things have surprised me interning with the local government. The first thing is that many council members have second jobs. Some of them even own their own business. This was shocking to me because serving on the council takes up a lot of time, they work 7 days a week without any…

Week 7: Team Work/Projects

Week 7 has come and gone and as I enter my final week in my internship I am already starting to miss my job. This past week I worked on specific tasks that will help the flow of daily business and organization throughout the entire office. In regards to teamwork in the office, we keep…

Culture of DeacLink

The culture of a company is difficult to determine when it is a start-up company. From my few weeks as a DeacLink Intern I determined that our culture is heavy dependent on interns because my bosses have other jobs other than running the website. Interns are expected to run most of the operations for the…

Week 6 at CrossRoads (blog 7)

At CrossRoads there is a mixture of working together and in groups. When working with a client the advocate works independently through one-on-one sessions with the client. While the client may only see one advocate and work with one person, there may be times when behind the scenes many people are working together on one…

Week 5 at CrossRoads (blog 6)

CrossRoads is an organization that works to accept and take care of not only their clients but their employees. Since the work can be so difficult and a large emotional strain the culture of the employees focuses on helping each other and looking out for each other when tougher cases come in. Something that the…