Getting Down to Business

I finished up my semester-long internship yesterday! I worked for the Tyco Healthcare corporate office in Mansfield since January. They are soon going to be changing their name to Covidien. I was in the Clinical Affairs department and I was in charge keeping track of the Continuing Education Program for registered nurses that take our classes. I had a lot of responsibility which I really enjoyed. I had to make sure the sales reps were following protocol and they had to ask my permission for certain things. I also made a final statistical report that was distributed to everyone and I got to decide how to best show the data with graphs and such. Even though I was only there one day a week (sometimes one and a half), I had my own cubicle and computer and phone number and everything. AND I got paid very well.


My second to last day, we went out to eat at the pub down the street and they really were hoping that I would stay on in the summer. Cleaning out my desk yesterday was depressing and I was really touched by their presents and cards. I thoroughly enjoyed my time at Tyco and everyone that I met was wonderful.

I'm currently working with HR there and next week I'm going to shadow the Sales Analyst department to see what they do. I think that job will be more up my alley since it will obviously use more math. My internship mostly focused on my computer/Excel/Access skills. What's great about college is that you can't really avoid learning about Power Point and Excel, which are invaluable tools in the working world. Our generation has had the advantage of growing up with these tools as normal parts of our lives. posted by Coriann at 9:47 AM 0 comments  

Almost Done!

My Mathematical & Statistical Consulting class culminated about a week ago. We presented our semester work to Battelle in an hour-long presentation. We also gave them a huge paper and a computer program so they can apply what we taught them. It was a very worthwhile class because we learned how to address and present to a real business. I feel like I can make the perfect Power Point now because we worked for 2 weeks straight (almost every night).

This also helped for when I presented my Senior Seminar work. My research was "Mathematical and Graphical Analysis of Pathogen and Host Relationships." I had another huge paper and I presented a half hour Power Point.

So yeah I'm pretty excited for all the senior activities that have been going on. We had Disorientation last night. The class officers bring the seniors on buses to a secret place and then we all celebrate as a class. Pretty much it's the official start of the end of being a senior. We went to the Lowell Brewing Company up in Lowell and it was sooooo much fun.


I'm really pumped for Senior Week where we are doing fun things like going to Dave & Buster's in Providence, going to Foxwoods & we have a ball at a mansion in Newport!! posted by Coriann at 1:05 PM 0 comments