This week was the epitome of High Tech High. Exhibition is drawing near, projects are heating up, and we got tons of time to work on whatever we prioritized as needing to get done. In my personal experience, this is what I have found to be the closest school experience to a real workplace. When I worked at WorldLink or the ACLU as an intern, I had things I needed to get done. For WorldLink I needed to do research on gender based violence and write abstracts. We would only meet once a week in the Institute for Peace and Justice, the rest of the week I had to balance between having my Freshman summer and getting all of the work and reading I needed done, doing my part to move the organization toward the eventual goal of having a Youth Town Meeting. For the ACLU, most of my work stayed within the office. I had times where I had a specific task, like shadowing one on one meetings between Gracie, a community organizer for the Southeast San Diego region, and the community members who she hoped to support, or setting up for a volunteer night. However, I also had hours where I knew what I needed to complete but had to manage myself. This is especially the case at my current job at Allegro Music Studio. My boss even told me that a good portion of my job will be anticipating the needs of the workplace. I do the important things first like managing the daily settlement reports, uploading new students or payments into our computer system, or answering to customers in person or over the phone. Those things usually take me about an hour, the rest of the time I work on whatever I see fit. I really like how my school has trained me to do this. Instead of micromanaging us or having the teacher always direct what we work on, we are given goals and the freedom to achieve them however we need.
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What is this?Hi everyone! This is my junior year blog. Here you will find weekly reflections up until the completion of my junior internship. I hope you enjoy this inside look on my learning! Archives
June 2018
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