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Week 7: Work Enviornment

Jeez. What a week. Over the course of the summer I have been putting together a research project, which culminated in a poster, which was supposed to be printed this morning, so that I could present it at NIH poster day a week from tomorrow. Supposed to. Not quite how it happened. Let it suffice…

Week 7: Working Environment

As mentioned in some of my earlier posts, Addison Whitney is made up of different departments and teams. There are four main teams that offer different services to clients: verbal, visual, brand strategy, and market research. AW also has a project management team and a marketing team outside of the four service teams. Within all…

Week 7: Team Work

Addison Whitney has several departments that provide different services to clients, yet they still collaborate together. These departments are verbal branding, visual branding, brand strategy, and research and analysis. Above these four branches, there is the project management team which works more closely with clients and arranges schedules. Within each department, everyone works individually on…

Week 6: Campus Culture

The NIH is huge. The building I’ve circled in this photo is the Clinical Center on the Bethesda campus; that’s where I work. Remember from previous posts? Over 8,000 research employees, including students, work in this building alone. Look at how big the rests of campus is! PLUS, there are campuses across five states. Can…

Week 9: Live to Learn

Hello again! I misspoke two weeks ago when I said I would be on vacation this week, I am actually leaving tomorrow so I have some great experiences from this week at work to share with you all! This week I would like talk about something I now have a completely new perspective on,…

Week 9: Social Media

Since I still have 3 weeks to go, I am repeating the prompt from Week #5. Also I am writing the blog today because I worked Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday of this week (instead of Monday, Wednesday, Friday) and will be in New York this weekend. Yesterday I learned more about our social media management….

Week 7: Back from vacation, and excited to get back to work!

Hello All! After a much needed vacation to Chicago last week, I am excited to be back at Environment Georgia! When looking at the organization as a whole, there is a lot of independent work done by individuals that eventually ends up culminating in a collaboration. Each week, interns sit down with the program direct…

Week 9: Final Reflection!

The final week of the internship went very well. The internship overall was a great experience for me. I learned a lot about working as a victim’s advocate, working for a non-profit, and working in general. I now know how to perform the majority of tasks as a victim’s advocate, with a little assistance. I…

Week 6: All About Culture

From the very beginning of this internship, I could tell that Addison Whitney’s company culture is pretty relaxed, but still engaging. The first day of the internship, we all had lunch brought in from Panera and we talked about the silliest things, specifically Justin Beiber and how Calvin Harris and T-Swift had just broken up….

Week 8: NWRA Goes to the Zoo

My latest project has been working on our Safety Stand Down program. I wrote promotional copy and created a timeline of Tweets for our Twitter, so all of my own words will be posted on the organization’s page! I also have been the only one who has called numerous members to remind them to apply…