My first priority after the Fourth of July weekend was to complete my lab training. Yesterday, I was assigned my very own lab notebook, and Rachel taught me how to calibrate the analytical balance and pipettors. Amey also taught me how to calibrate the pH meter. The actual training itself hardly took much time, but documenting the experiment in my lab notebook was a little more tedious. I kept forgetting to initial and date the top of every page before I started writing a procedure, and unfortunately that can't be added at a later time without documenting an error code along with it! I like the independence that I'm given in the lab, but I also like the fact that I can always ask for guidance when I need it.
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This week I've also been helping Kris type up a Quality Survey by compiling several questionnaires and avoiding redundant questions. This survey will be used by Tergus to gather information about subcontractors that the company is interested in doing business with.
Today I completed my lab training by preparing an acetate buffer with Haritha. It took me a lot longer to do this than it would have taken my coworkers, but I'm sure I will get the hang of it with more practice. I also got the chance to enter the Formulation lab where Ryan had been working with cadaver skin, and to my surprise, it didn't make me feel nauseated.
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4: How is the internship meeting or not meeting your expectations/objectives and why? Do you have control of this? Explain.
My original expectation was to be a project manager, but after my first day I realized that I was not ready to do this since I didn't understand the process of completing a project at Tergus. So far, my experience with project managing has been limited to observing Jenn and Kris. Although their work interests me, I also like to be independent, so I have been focusing more on lab work. However, since my main career interest is project management, I am still observing my coworkers and listening to conferences so that I can get a good sense of what it entails. I can't control that I'm not yet experienced enough to actually manage a project, but what I can do is continue to learn as much as I can about this industry so that after college I will not only have the skill set to be successful in this field, but I will also be more familiar with it.
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This week I've also been helping Kris type up a Quality Survey by compiling several questionnaires and avoiding redundant questions. This survey will be used by Tergus to gather information about subcontractors that the company is interested in doing business with.
Today I completed my lab training by preparing an acetate buffer with Haritha. It took me a lot longer to do this than it would have taken my coworkers, but I'm sure I will get the hang of it with more practice. I also got the chance to enter the Formulation lab where Ryan had been working with cadaver skin, and to my surprise, it didn't make me feel nauseated.
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Excited to have my own lab coat and goggles!
4: How is the internship meeting or not meeting your expectations/objectives and why? Do you have control of this? Explain.
My original expectation was to be a project manager, but after my first day I realized that I was not ready to do this since I didn't understand the process of completing a project at Tergus. So far, my experience with project managing has been limited to observing Jenn and Kris. Although their work interests me, I also like to be independent, so I have been focusing more on lab work. However, since my main career interest is project management, I am still observing my coworkers and listening to conferences so that I can get a good sense of what it entails. I can't control that I'm not yet experienced enough to actually manage a project, but what I can do is continue to learn as much as I can about this industry so that after college I will not only have the skill set to be successful in this field, but I will also be more familiar with it.
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