Day 41

     Wow! I can not believe that today was my last day at the Clery Center. It is going to be so weird not having to go into the office three times a week. I have really enjoyed my experience here. It has definitely been a learning one, if anything else. I entered this internship not knowing how I would feel. Thinking that what ever the experience would be I was open to it, especially because I was new to the whole non-profit area.
     Never did I think that I would possibly want to work in a non-profit organization. This experience has truly opened my eyes to a whole new area of psychology that I could go into that I never thought to consider before. They were so accommodating to my school schedule. If for any reason my schedule conflicted with something that had to be done with school they would work with me and make sure that there was a way for me to make up the hours. Which was just truly amazing, not even my job at Barnes and Noble is that accommodating.
     So today as my last official project as an intern. Since Michelle is going to edit the video that we made yesterday because I do not have Imovie on my computer. They wanted me to write a little manual I guess you could call it. For how to use the Safe Campus, Strong Voices logo during National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM).


I have truely enjoyed this experience and being a part of the Clery Team. I hope that one day I am able to work with these wonderful people once again.


~Kaitlan

Day 40

     Today when I walked in the Clery Center, Michelle and I worked on creating a bystander intervention video. It was toward Healthy Relationships. We are creating this for National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM.) We talked about what a healthy relationship meant to us. We are going to put it together tomorrow. We were only in for a short time due to the end of the semester, so we were not able to get a whole lot of it done. Since we were only there for about 2 hours. The finished product should be amazing!!!

~Kaitlan

Day 38

     Today is one of my last days at the Clery Center. I can not believe that the time has gone by so fast. I only have 9 more hours left after I leave today. So when I came in today there was not too much to do. I mostly sealed envelopes because the newsletter is being sent out this week. So I continued what Jessica and I were doing yesterday. Although instead of stamping & sealing the letters. Charlotte was able to get the stamping done, that way all I had to do was seal them. Usually I am busy doing research for an RA board or looking up materials that need to be used in a project.
     So even though these past two days I have not been doing  a whole lot I have enjoyed it. It has been one of those weeks where you want work to do, but you want to not be able to think about what it is you are doing. With finals week coming up these past two days were exactly what I needed.
     Also before I left we are still working on getting our organization sign-up's for NCSAm to 200. So in addition to sealing the envelopes I was also looking for more student/peer education groups that might be interested in participating this year.



Kaitlan

Day 37

     Today when I went in to the Clery Center, Abby and Amy had another intern and I work together I on getting the newsletter ready to be sent out. Due to being done our research for Experimental Psychology and my Capstone class, we had presentations this week. So I was only able to stay for an hour and a half.
     So the other intern Jessica and myself worked on stuffing and stamping the envelopes for the newsletter. We got most of it done except we ran out of stamps. Since I had to leave early I told Jess that she could just continue stuffing the envelopes and when  came in tomorrow I would stamp them and seal them.  Not a very eventful day, but otherwise productive.

Kaitlan

Day 36

     Today when I walked into the Clery Center I was planning on reading through the 30days/30 activities guide that Abby brought to my attention yesterday. Since I was not able to read through all thirty activities that it what I did. I spent the two hours that I was there today reading through all of the different activities and gave my feedback.

     They said that it was crucial that they had a students perspective since that was their main target audience. Since I am currently a student they felt that I would be able to give them a good idea on whether these ideas would work, or if there was another way to carry them out. Maybe even add some new ideas to the list. I really enjoyed this project. I felt that I was having a hands on part of creating NCSAM. Even though I have been helping them out since the beginning of the semester. Makes sense though since I love reading and I am going to need to be good at picking out certain things that stand out. Especially when I get out into the professional world. 

~Kaitlan

Day 35

     Today when I walked into the Clery Center...I finished up my part of the letter that was going to be attached to the 30 day/ 30 activities part of the NCSAM toolkit. Then I sent it over to Amy to read it over and to make sure that tomorrow when Michelle comes in she is able to write her part.
     Then I went and finished up the Email blast that was going to be sent out to the student organizations on the student group list that we had gotten together and still working on. As I mentioned before they are really pushing to have and get 200 organizations to become apart of National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM.)
     Once all that was done and set over to Amy, Abby came in and we talked and she said that both her and Amy thought that it would be a great idea for me to read over the 30 days/ 30 activities part of the NCSAM toolkit, to see if there was anything else that could be done. Mostly to get a students opinion on the whole thing. To make sure that the students who would be participating would want to do these activities.


~Kaitlan

Day 34

     Today when I went in the Clery Center Amy was all set with a project for me to do. She wanted to me finish writing the letter for the email blast to those who only have an email contact on the Student Group List. I finished that in record time, there was only a little bit left from yesterday that I needed to get in to the letter.
     Then she wanted me to start a letter to the students that would be part of the 30 days/ 30 activities for National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM), as part of the list that Michelle and I created last week. They liked it so much that they wanted to attach this letter written by the both of us with the different ways that students can promote their events. 
     Lastly a little bit before I had to leave I had some free time. I was able to get a few more calls in from the student group lists. No one answered, but I was able to leave them short but detailed messages. All in all another busy and productive day.

Kaitlan

Day 33

     Today when I went into the Clery Center there was a meeting going on in the conference room. So when the other interns came in we were a little short on space for everyone..haha. So one of the interns Michelle and I ended up working in the same room. Which was a good thing because we have been working on some of the same projects. It gave us some time to collaborate a little together. Since we do not usually have the same schedule.
    The other two interns Charlotte and Christine were working out in the main room, where Charlotte usually answers the phones and such. There is a desk out there that they could both share and get their work done. Luckily Christine and Michelle both brought their laptops.
     For the most part today I worked on an email that was going to be sent out to those who are on the student group list that only have an email listed as their contact. So we can send out another email blast to all those organizations and reach our goal of 200. Michelle and I also came up with a list of different types of promotions that student organizations use to bring awareness and get students to attend their events. All the while searching for pictures that Amy could use in the 30 days/ 30 activities aspect of the National Campus Safety Awareness Month (NCSAM). Was a very busy day today.


Kaitlan

Day 32

     Today when I walked in to the Clery Center I put the finishing touches on the Bystander RA board that I was working on. Then I sent it to both Amy and Abby to look over one last time just in case any changes or additions need to be made. Went and looked for more pictures for the 30 days/ 30 activities event for NCSAM. I have not been able to to find many, Then I went and started making phone calls from the Student Group list that Amy and I have been working on these past couple of weeks.  I was able to make two calls from this list before it was time to go. I am going to continue making calls tomorrow and making more additions to the list.

Kaitlan

Day 31

     Today when I walked into the Clery Center Amy was not in the office. She sent me an email earlier that day that I did not receive until checking my email, when I got into the office. The email saying that she was suffering from a horrible migraine and would most likely not make it into the office today.
    But that I was either welcome to continue working on the student group list, start making phone calls from the student group list to the new organizations that were added,  or continue to look for photo's for the 30 Activities for 30 days for NCSAM.
     So I did a little bit of everything except for making the phone calls. It has been a little while since I made the previous ones, from when we first started making the list. I wanted to wait until either Amy or Abbey were in the office, just in case I had any questions. 

Day 30

     Today I was not able to make it to the Clery Center.  I was having some car trouble and was not able to make it in to the office. However, I did call the office and spoke with one of my supervisors Amy. I asked her if there was anything that I could do from home that way I would not be loosing any hours and that work that needed to get done would be done. She said that she was sorry about my car and that they completely understand that these things do happen and not to worry about not be able to come into the office.
     That I was to continue adding student organizations to the student group list for NCSAM and that when I was back in the office we would start making calls. I felt really bad because we were supposed to start making the calls today but because of my car we were not able to. She also gave me the option of helping her with another NCSAM project. She is working on the 30 days/ 30 activities campaign and she wanted to have pictures that went along with the text so it would not be so wordy. She said that if I needed a break from working on the list that I could switch gears and work on that.
     I ended up finding a few more organizations and the pictures are taking a little bit more time than expected. The topics that I am searching are hard to find. But overall for not being able to get into the office it was a productive day

Kaitlan

Day 29

     Today when I went into the Clery Center, my main focus was to add more organizations to the student group list. Amy, Abby, Sam, Deb, and Ali all had a meeting today.  So I was to man the phones while they were in the meeting. Charlotte the other intern who is usually the one that answers the phones had already left for the day. I have to say I was a little nervous, because I was unfamiliar with the phone system and I was not sure how to do a couple of things.
     However everyone had complete faith in me. They said that if I was to make a mistake that was ok, because being an intern is supposed to be a learning experience. It turns out I did not make any mistakes and took great messages.
    Which made me confident in myself, because even though I was only answering the phones at this particular point something like this will follow me through all my professional endeavors. There are going to be those times where I am going to be pushed out of my comfort zone and I am gonna have to go with it to make sure that the job gets completed.
     So I was able to get a few more organizations added to the list and I am going to start making more calls either tomorrow or next week. Depending on what Amy and Abby think would be best.

~Kaitlan