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Week Three: You Can Feel the Tension

Hey everyone, So I am an intern at the Mind Body Institute Beyond here in Winston, and it is owned and operated by Dr. David Mount. Dr. Mount is one of the few doctors in this area that the VA trust to carry out psychological evaluations for the veterans that come to the VA seeking…

Unique Perspectives 7.8.18- Payton Calvert

Something that makes Good Shepherd’s Fold so amazing is their jointly combined staff of Ugandan and Western employees. There are missionaries from the Western world who live and work at GSF permanently; there are also Ugandan workers, some who live on campus and some who come from surrounding areas. This is crucial to the success…

Week 6 at Hangar

Since Hangar functions similarly to a summer stock their culture is very dependent on the group of people hired per summer. There are many people who are hired back for the follow years but these positions tend to be through company management or managing the shops. The positions like intern and apprentice are not normally…

Week 8!

I must sound like a broken record by now, but I seriously can’t believe we’re 8 weeks into my summer with Ronald McDonald House! The progress of my projects for the summer has somewhat surprised me. Some of my projects, such as putting together a booklet of instructions for volunteers to used, were finished in…

Quick Chill Week at the “Depahtment” of Public Health

Not a lot of new things happening because it’s the fourth of July week! Half of the office took off Monday and Tuesday and the other half took off Thursday and Friday since the holiday was smack dab in the middle of the week so the office has bee really low key. Lots of mail…

Week 5

I am continuing to enroll patients in our STOP Study. I am still consenting them, making sure the nurses get the blood draws, and then processing the blood. I am also screening the track board to assist my coworkers with enrolling people in our six other studies. I have started doing the medical record reviews…

Week Three: Shoreline, Beverly Hills

Hi Everyone! Here’s a bit about Shoreline: Shoreline Entertainment is a films sales, distribution, and production company. Shoreline acts as an intermediary between filmmakers and distribution platforms (i.e. theaters, online streaming sites, etc.) to help independent films find distribution. Shoreline attends many major film festivals around the world (Sundance, Cannes, Venice, etc.) searching for films…

Week 4: The City of Charlotte

Interning with Councilwoman Ajmera, meetings and council meetings are located at the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Government Center. The mayor and city council formed in 1929 from Commission Form to Council-Manager form. The first elections for an at-large mayor and four councilmen for a term of two years were held in 1929. Today, there is one at-large mayor,…

Madam Secretary Saves the Day and Jordan gets a “Prahject”

Going a little off the books this week with the prompts because I work for the government so I don’t really have a big starting up story with the DPH or the governor’s office… but today I am happy to report that things have sped up a little with my intern responsibilities! Things honestly started…

Week 6: Company Culture

Its been another awesome week here at Royalty Marketing and time has really flown by. What I am starting to realize about myself is that I really enjoy the change in pace of owning your own business. We come in each day to a new situation, a new job to do, a new client, or…