A Day in the Life
Its been requested that I start providing some background to what I blog on the rare occasion I do. So here it is:
A Day in the Life of an Intern...
7:15- Wake up early because I share a bathroom with 3 boys all of whom are more metro than I am girlie...gotta be out by 7:30....
8:00 Walk to the bus stop or all the way to the metro station at McPherson's Square. The bus is usually full of cute little kids and their parents at this hour of the morning-a nice change from the night
9:00 Get to work say Hi to Francisco from Brazil who gets in when I do and to everyone else in the office, start in on all the emails that always pour in during the night due to both our workaholic-ness and the fact that we have fellows in over 60 countries around the world. Typical requests involve researching fellows, attempting to decipher espanol, etc
10:30 Make the rounds around the office to say hi to everyone and keep the channels of communication open, get coffee with Leah and whoever else is feeling the pain. Try to learn about what everyone else is doing so I know when to integrate them into our plans
11:00 Phone meeting? Updating the volunteer website I set up? Other random requests from people everywhere in the world? Research on fellows? Emailing country reps to find out what fellows are doing, updating our information and writing up documents for our volunteer writers
Noon: Work through lunch reading profiles of fellows to nominate for strategic awards
Afternoon: A combination of meetings, strategizing our volunteer program, emailing with fellow's whose visits I'm working on, emailing volunteers, writing, and playing with all the toys in Greg and I's office. Also eating all of the hershey's Kisses Greg keeps at his desk and bouncing on the posture ball in Leah's office...these are all integral parts of the day
5:00 Tiny break to say hi to people again and eat a cereal bar then back to writing and researching and emails as the other half of the world is waking up with questions and requests
7:00 Ten Hours after arriving at the office we start trying to kick each other out, or rather everyone tries to kick me out since I really am only interning and overtime is generally frowned upon
8:00 Get home or end up out to dinner or hanging out with co-workers putting off important laundry, grocery shopping and relaxing yet again...
10:30 Walk home past the drug deals on my corner and pretend I don't know what's going on...jump in the shower, catch up with people I miss and maybe check work email so its not such a shock in the morning
And by 11:30 I'm usually done for the day having yet to do my laundry, take my clothes to the dry cleaners or eat a real dinner...its a great life though...we'll just have to wait and see what comes next
A Day in the Life of an Intern...
7:15- Wake up early because I share a bathroom with 3 boys all of whom are more metro than I am girlie...gotta be out by 7:30....
8:00 Walk to the bus stop or all the way to the metro station at McPherson's Square. The bus is usually full of cute little kids and their parents at this hour of the morning-a nice change from the night
9:00 Get to work say Hi to Francisco from Brazil who gets in when I do and to everyone else in the office, start in on all the emails that always pour in during the night due to both our workaholic-ness and the fact that we have fellows in over 60 countries around the world. Typical requests involve researching fellows, attempting to decipher espanol, etc
10:30 Make the rounds around the office to say hi to everyone and keep the channels of communication open, get coffee with Leah and whoever else is feeling the pain. Try to learn about what everyone else is doing so I know when to integrate them into our plans
11:00 Phone meeting? Updating the volunteer website I set up? Other random requests from people everywhere in the world? Research on fellows? Emailing country reps to find out what fellows are doing, updating our information and writing up documents for our volunteer writers
Noon: Work through lunch reading profiles of fellows to nominate for strategic awards
Afternoon: A combination of meetings, strategizing our volunteer program, emailing with fellow's whose visits I'm working on, emailing volunteers, writing, and playing with all the toys in Greg and I's office. Also eating all of the hershey's Kisses Greg keeps at his desk and bouncing on the posture ball in Leah's office...these are all integral parts of the day
5:00 Tiny break to say hi to people again and eat a cereal bar then back to writing and researching and emails as the other half of the world is waking up with questions and requests
7:00 Ten Hours after arriving at the office we start trying to kick each other out, or rather everyone tries to kick me out since I really am only interning and overtime is generally frowned upon
8:00 Get home or end up out to dinner or hanging out with co-workers putting off important laundry, grocery shopping and relaxing yet again...
10:30 Walk home past the drug deals on my corner and pretend I don't know what's going on...jump in the shower, catch up with people I miss and maybe check work email so its not such a shock in the morning
And by 11:30 I'm usually done for the day having yet to do my laundry, take my clothes to the dry cleaners or eat a real dinner...its a great life though...we'll just have to wait and see what comes next
posted by Dani @ 5:12 PM
2 Comments:
At March 10, 2008 8:55 PM ,
Molly said...
That sounds amazing!
How'd the grape smirnoff ice go?
Have you had to work a 2nd job on top of all of that work?!
At March 13, 2008 6:59 PM ,
SarahEliz said...
I'm glad to hear that I'm not the only one who dreads opening work email the next morning, knowing that half of my organization is at work while I am sleeping ;)
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