This week, I only interned on Tuesday since I was going down to Delaware for homecoming weekend Friday-Sunday. Tuesday I spent the first few hours working on my database entry aiming to finish it. Around 11 am an agent came in telling me about a database project he had for me that was a high priority. It took precedence over the ongoing project I've been working on. I worked on that until about 3 PM, and finished it. I worked and finished the ongoing database project I had until work ended!
I was so determined to finish my project, especially since I wouldn't be in on Friday. When I was given the other project, I was at first thinking "No!!" because I am very much someone who likes to complete one project and begin another. But of course I was enthusiastic and understood that a project of high priority is the priority! Luckily, the project was pretty simple, just some more database work, not data entry. This project was 3 different spreadsheets for 3 different doctors. I had to go through each one to delete repeat patient names and make a simple list of patients for each doctor. Each database had several hundred to a few thousand entries. It just took some sorting and deleting to simplify the lists.
I was happy to get that project done, and to be able to finish my big project! I worked really hard all day, and diligently so I could complete everything successfully and in time. My supervisor seemed happy with me and noticed how hard I was working and how much I accomplished that day! It also made me think how that is how work goes sometimes: just when you're about to complete a project, another more important is assigned to you and you must be flexible! Sometimes we must juggle more than one project at a time. It was a good professional experience for me.
Class on Thursday was fine. We discussed an excerpt from "Angry Young Men" by Aaron Kipnis. The author was a former gang member who had spent a lot of his childhood and adolescence in foster care and institutions. The book mainly focused on how our communities could better deal with "angry young men" rather than incarcerating them. We discussed the reading in class as usual. Our professor wasn't requiring us to write a paper on this reading, which was great since I had a busy weekend ahead!
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