Internship Exerpience
LYNZEE TUCKER What is a memorable moment you will never
forget from your experience? “The best day of my
whole internship was our first office BBQ. The sales, marketing, and engineering teams in the office got together and had a cook-out in the parking lot of our office building. We were split up into teams and held events after everyone ate. I was with 2 other sales territory managers and a member of our support team. The four of us decided to have a “Hula” themed team so we all wore dollar sunglasses, flowers, and grass skirts! Our team won most creative and enthusiastic, and I even won an event for our team. As an intern it was great to feel so accepted and part of a little family there at the office.”
What is the most important thing you learned while at your internship? “Relationships are everything. What can you take from the experience to help you in your future? “I really hope that the things I learned
It’s not what you know, it’s who you know. Network, network, network!”
at Fluke Networks will stay with me through my entire career. There are some lessons that you can’t learn in a classroom, and this internship provided the safest “real-world” examples to learn from.”
Abroad Experience
KARA FRISINA What is the largest impact your experience had on
you? “One of the most important things that I learned was to take charge and be independent. I couldn’t count on other people to know train times for me or know how to get around a city or find the metro when the signs are in Hungarian. I learned that I am a lot more capable than I give myself credit for and that gain of selfconfidence has been very rewarding.” What is a memorable moment you will never forget from your experience? “After my study abroad program, I went backpacking for 7 weeks across Europe with my best friend who I met and lived with in Spain. We decided to do a project while we traveled, about the people we met along the way. She, the writer, would interview them while I, the photographer, would take their portrait. The people we met along the way had an enormous impact on me and I learned a lot from what they had to say. I love traveling to see new cities and sights. I think meeting a new person is similar because they have a whole world of knowledge and experiences to learn from. It was especially interesting doing the project across different countries, because while it showed me cultural differences, it also showed me the powerful similarities that all humans share.”
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