May 11

OMG, today is my last day at my placement. I finished typing all the names of people who registered for the gift basket at the Marathon. There was a lot of paper and I am glad I am done. It took me a long time. I thought I would never get done. It was frustrated to see that even though I was entering a lot of names the bag was still full. I turned in all projects that needed to be turned in. Then I said my goodbyes to everyone. For the rest of the day I spend it at the front desk with Delre. I will miss them. It was a GREAT and I learned so much from each of them.

May 2

Today is a normal day as usual. My sponsor is not here, so I had to get all the projects done so that I could return it to her since the last week of internship is next week. I am currently working on new events for the new Newsletter. Then I have to pick 3 to 4 events for the weekly 1 minute radio events. I feel tired and frustrated today. I hope it will get better as we go. Today I learned that it is important to know how to manage your time and be productive otherwise you will be bored.

Last Day :(

Wednesday May 11th
I must say, I have some of the best sponsors ever. We started out by going to lunch at Timpone's. The Department Head took myself and Pablo as a congraduations into becoming students in the department for next year, but a few of the professors we have worked with came along as well. Pablo and I both received a bag full of FSHN pens, mugs and luggage tags which were pretty cool. I talked with Dr. Helferich for a while, who is the most successful professor in the department (he's brought in about $20 million of grants in the past 2 years). He gave me some great advice on classes to take and experiences to get involved in as well as how to approach grad/med school. He really pressured me to do a lot of service and other outside activities other than the basic studying that can overwhelm any good student. After lunch we went back to the lab and finished up our iron analysis from the day before. It took a couple hours and since was my last day I wanted to finish the job. Because I stayed late, Dr. Andrade took Pablo and I to Coco Mero which was super generous. We had a really nice talk about college and life in general. I gave everyone my thanks one more time and headed out. Luckily, I will be studying the department next year and I already have so many great connections.

Iron Analysis

Thursday May 5th
More iron analysis today. We started by picking up our samples in AESB (ag engineering building). The muffler gets over 500 degrees celsius, so we had to let them cool for awhile before we could remove them. We transported them back to the lab (goodness it was hot outside!) and let them cool a but longer in the polar fridge (we went inside for while to cool down ourselves). Once the samples were cool enough to analyize we labelled our tubes and weighed out the ashes into each tube. We then mixed our reagents (chromogen and BHT solutions; highly acidic). We then diluted to our recommended amount and analyzied our samples in the spectrophotometer. It was actually pretty rewarding to do the same procedure from my first couple weeks at internship. This time it was with real samples, but I still feel more confident knowing I've come so far in my research skills.

Last Day

Well for my last day, my sponsors, both Erica and Jeanine, made some food to bring in for a potluck for me. It was really nice, and the food was great too. One of the technicians came back and told me there was vodka in Erica's pasta dish and that I wasn't allowed to have any. Of course she was joking, and I had some and it was really good. After a short lunch, I set up my final presentation that I had been working on. It was a powerpoint about herbal medicines, and it went pretty smoothly. Erica always seems impressed with my work which is great. After I finished up my speech, they brought in two presents for me. I got a nice card that everybody in the pharmacy had signed which was really sweet. I also got a few small things, a keychain a candle and a pair of earrings. It was very unexpected and I really appreciated it. When I got out of my internship, I went immediately to Walgreens to pick up a gift for them as well. I'm sad to leave them all. :(

Wednesday, May 11

Well today was supposed to be my last day at Follmer Law Offices but I guess I will be coming tomorrow and Friday as well as I have not yet reached my average of 12 hours per week. It's kind of frustrating becasue I have really been looking forward to wrapping up this internship but I know Kent and Sarah could use the extra help. Lately I have been doing a lot of filing and revising letters and documents for Kent, as well as entering client names and files numbers into our computerized file-making system. Kent needs a full list of current clients, as well as files that have been moved to storage or destroyed, and this was one of the main projects he wanted me working on this semester since neither he nor Sarah ever has the time to do it. As I am nearing my last few days in the office I suspect they will really be pushing me to complete it. Sarah is on the phone right now and I think Kent is at lunch so I don't really have anything to do at the moment, hence this blog. Well that's all for now!

4/25

My day started my day out different because the patient forgot her shoes. So we couldn’t really do anything that was planned. But we did stretch and she walked on the treadmill for 10 minute, then she did 2 sets 10 of calf raises as well as the windmills which is where the patient is working on their balance, 2 sets of 15 of donkey kicks, steps down 30 on each leg, and then we stretched her again but the lower body. (D) I was a little confused because I don’t know how my sponsor was going to respond to the patient. But my sponsor just told her that she could either leave or re-schedule her appointment or that she could stay but when she leaves her feet are going to hurt. So she ended up staying.(F) I know how to go about problems like today.(A)