Hey everyone and welcome back to Allison in Wonderland! If you’ve been following my blog for a while, you might remember that I wrote a post at the end of last summer about how my internship went (click here to read) and now I’m back to write about it again because sadly, my internship for this summer ended a couple days ago.
I can’t remember if I mentioned this in last year’s post but I was interning at a marketing firm in Annapolis, Maryland! Last summer was my first internship ever and I was lucky enough to be asked back over my winter break and then again for this summer! Even though I was returning to the same company, my role for this summer switched just a little bit. Last summer, I was the design intern and I was working in the creative services department with the graphic designers. Even though working in creative services was an absolutely wonderful experience, I wanted to see a different side of the business, so I moved over to the marketing department this summer to work with the Vice President of Marketing!
Throughout the past three months, I was integrated in in-house and out-of-house meetings with a lot of our clients, collaborated with co-workers both in and out of the marketing department, and I learned a ton! Internships are extremely beneficial in general, but being able to intern at the same company for two years and grow within it was incredible. I was able to experience working in multiple departments for the same company and because of that, I was able to learn from and make connections with so many of the employees!
Ending my internship at this company was so sad for me, not only because of how amazing the people are, but because it’s the last internship I’ll ever have. I’m graduating this December (a semester early) and it’s so crazy to think that the next job I have will (hopefully) be a full-time position! I’m so excited to be at this point in my life, I feel like I’ve been waiting for it forever, and I can’t wait to see where I am six months from now!
If you’d like to see a few final semester/graduation-esque blog posts, let me know in the comment section below! I have a few thoughts on fun JMU posts but I’d love to hear your ideas as well! See ya next week!
