Ready...Set....Intern

January 11th-28th

Kick-off Meeting

Going from break into internship duties was rough. The first week back consisted of a two hour long meeting on expectation of my job and duties for the remaining of the semester. In the start of the meeting, we went through events that we planned and assigned specific duties for those events. 

This meeting was very engaging in the sense that we were spitballing ideas and suggestions about upcoming events and how to promote them or what to add to make them more exciting for students. Not only were ideas in discussion, but the implementation was also in discussion.

Welcome Back Week

Moving forward, we hit the ground running with a welcome back week to welcome students back for the spring semester. We stated out rather slow paced by having a booth where we simply handed out fun supplies such as pens, free Shepherd gear etc. We, then continued the week by having a Bingo Night in which I was lead programmer for. We decided to have it at Potomac Place residential hall as opposed to previous years having it in Rams Den.

To end of the first week back we had Waffle Wednesday, a very important day for students may I add. We had waffle makers and made over 200+ waffles for students to enjoy for free. All of these events required minimum set up and clean up. However, being hands on in both of those is crucial in putting on an awesome event. This is hand on experience in event planning and event set up.

More Events 

Within the first few weeks we had more events such as Paint Night and Pool Tournament. These events had to be well organized more so than the others because one involved lots and lots of paint, and the other was a competition so we had to be sure understand the stats. During this period we had a white tubing event at White Tail that had to be canceled due to inclement weather. 

What I Learned

In the first couple of weeks, I have learned that in planning events the more engaging and free they are, the better the turn out. I learned that our audience of Shepherd students enjoy free things the most out of everything. I also learned that we have to throughly think of any and everything that could go wrong.