The Internship Experience: Week One

When embarking on a new experiences its customary to hear the phrase, "Just dive right in".However, diving is such an intense experience, particularly when the object directly beneath your dive is something so unknown. Even diving into a pool is an experience that is both physically and mentally stimulating. Likewise, “diving in” to a new situation or environment can also be a scary experience. The combination of the nervousness, the new environment, and the uncertainty that a new experience brings is something that is guaranteed to keeps you on your toes.

Surprisingly, my first few week at my new internship did not bring me the expected sense of “diving in.Truthfully the job got off to a unexpected slow start, in fact, there were moments throughout the day that I wondered what it was I was actually doing. I guess in the days leading up to these moment, I had subconsciously constructed fictional reality that was far removed from actual reality.