Blog Post 11

I think my internship at KJR has prepared me for success in college in a couple of different ways. First, this internship has been full of long days and hard work, which is something Im sure I will experience very frequently in college. It only helps that I am getting more practice now learning to work hard and long on different projects. Additionally all this hard work has brought along with it work that seems impossible in the moment, but I have forced myself to find a solution and overcome it. In college I know that many situations like this will indeed arise, and my parents will not be around to give advice.  It will be up to me to overcome these challenges myself, and by doing just this at my internship, it has given me good practice for when I have to do it more in college. Also, this internship has forced me to socialize with my fellow co-workers. Though I do socialize with my friends in my personal time quite a bit, socializing in an entirely different environment with totally new people is very different, and exactly what college will be. In college everything and everyone will be totally new, so making friends is something I, and all the other freshman will have to work at. I believe this internship will give me more experience into making friends in an entirely new environment. Other than those two, I am short of anything else my internship will necessarily help me with, not because my internship has been a waste of time or a bad experience. No, its because I really don’t know what to expect for college. I can speculate all I want, but I only will really begin to understand what college life is like the second my dad walks out my dorm room and I start my life as an independent. So that’s what why I don’t know what else my internship will help me with in college, but I’m sure I will realize it helps me on a lot more than I wrote here.