Post 5: Looking Back/Overall Insight

If I had to recommend any one LSA class to a Michigan student, it would be English 229 with Tim Green. I do not deny that I have and will continue to learn immense amounts of information at Michigan, however, in terms of what is actually preparing me for the future, the professional writing course that I took this past semester is the one experience that I have benefitted from at my internship. I believe this course can benefit anyone at any internship or profession of any type. A lot of what I do all day at my internship is call in products and write e-mails to my supervisors, other MSLO employees, PR firms, and companies. Having taking this professional writing class, I felt so comfortable making phone calls and writing e-mails, and I never doubted that I was using the correct format or tone.

I have not really been too surprised or unprepared for any events or situations that I have encountered. I’ve maybe been pleasantly surprised by some of the perks that I have gotten out of my internship, but nothing has thrown me off too much. The one main thing that I have encountered at my job that I did not expect is the amount of responsibility that has been given to me. I really do not feel like an intern as much as I do an employee. I am given lists of items needed for photo-shoots, which I am then simply not even asked about until the day of the shoot. I am forwarded invitations to previews of fall and winter merchandise and must RSVP at my own convenience. Things like this make me feel incredibly capable and lucky to have had such a great learning experience at MSLO this summer.

On a wedding shoot last week, I was lucky enough that Sarah Potempa, the professional hair stylist, do my hair just for fun and post it on her Instagram.

You can all also enjoy/laugh at this beauty video of me putting false lashes on.

False Eyelashes in Less than 5 Minutes