Changing Perspectives

It's no secret that as time passes, people grow and mature into different forms of who they once were. When I began this internship I struggled to affectively communicate and immerse myself fully among my coworkers and boss. But as the summer progressed, I began to discover my place in the office and understand how to perform my responsibilities affectively and fully.
Before my summer began, I had conceived expectations of what I would be doing during my internship. After my first day had come and gone though, I soon realized that the next three months would not go according to plan. Although this was unexpected, it turned out to hold its own advantages. I wasn't getting lunch with my coworkers everyday nor was I contributing significantly to the company's future. However, I was learning, and that is really I could've asked for this summer. This internship really was all about an introduction...an introduction into a desk job, cubicles, 9-5 days, and much more. Walking into that building for the first time, I was terrified. I carried with me this overwhelming pressure to prove myself worthy of the job I was so luckily handed. Everything I did had to be done with the upmost precision and to its fullest extent. But as time progressed, I stopped trying to impress everyone with my diligent work ethic, and did my work the way I always do. It seemed like the more I thought about things, the more prone I was to screwing up. Looking back on it now, I wish I could've saved myself the stress, but the learning curve didn't take too long. Those days are long gone and so is this summer and everything that it has taught me.