First Month Reflections

If there is one thing that I have been reminded of during the first month of this internship is that things can't happen all at once.  From planning the peace walk to studying for a certain standardized test, unfortunately everything can't be planned for or reviewed for at once. As much as I want to get everything done at once, things have to be done at a specific time with a specific timing. Take for instance, planning the peace walk. Because it is scheduled to be in the second week of October, when I was writing the timeline in mid July, it was tempting to try to get all of the tasks accomplished that week, so we wouldn't have to do them later. However, things like the press release, the teeshirts, even advertising the peace walk, need to be left for later in order make it a success.

This principle is something that also can be applied to the internship as a whole. When given the tasks at the early Tuesday and Thursday morning meetings, it is tempting to get the tasks done right away, rather than spreading them throughout the week in order to get them done properly. If there is one thing that the first month of this internship has taught me, it is how to split my time between working and studying, and how some things have to be done at a specific time in order for them to be done properly-it is all about the timing.