F.M. Kirby Experiential Learning Stipend Recipient Blogs

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…

Week 7

In the lab, people working in teams or independently all depends on the specific task. Because we all know what other people are up to, it’s typically a high collaborative work environment. There are menial tasks such as creating and distributing fly food into small vials that we all pitch in for. I’m getting training…

Week 5

Over the past week we have opened Chicago and started tech for both The Amazing Tale of the Overnight Backyard Adventure and Far Away. We are also in the middle of designing a theoretical production of The Ghost of Lote Bravo. If anyone gets a chance to either see or read this play I would…

Halfway Through!

I am just about halfway through with my internship and that is reflected on my task list. I have finished many of the smaller projects assigned to me and I am making progress with the bigger projects. Last week, I had a meeting with my team to talk about projects. I mentioned that one my…

Week 5-DeacLink

Interviewing is one of my most difficult task as an intern at DeacLink. It also is my biggest project because I must interview several alumni by the end of this summer. I thought that majoring in communication would help ease some awkwardness that comes with the territory but I was wrong. Although, the more I…

Week Two: This is Crazy

Hi everyone, I have now come to the conclusion that you could not pay me any sum of money to join the armed forces. All of the stories of PTSD and the mental disorders that resulted from the service that I hear from the veterans has really made me think long and hard about the…