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  

Spring Weekend!

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April

It has not been spring weather lately. I went to a women's lacrosse game last week and it started snowing right after! Then a couple days later I went to a baseball game and it was kind of nice out. Then it was so rainy and windy last night that we basically had a monsoon.

This past Friday, there was another Accepted Student Open House and the math club put on another table. This time we had all the other science clubs with us. It was really fun because the Tri Beta Honor Society brought out one of the many terrapin turtles that are in the vivarium and the Physics Club brought out one of their telescopes and then some other experiments. The Eco Club was there too. We're having another table this next Friday.

Relay for Life was this past Friday. The weather, again, wasn't that great so we ended up moving inside halfway through. Usually it's an all night walk around the Dimple, and it's always in early spring, so people are used to the cold, but it was supposed to be freezing.
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busy busy

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Spring Break

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Nothing Much

Last Monday we had a senior dinner with some invited alumni. Tuesday, I worked all day at my internship. Wednesday, I had my weekly presentation in my senior seminar and then that night I went to some student plays. Last week there were senior plays every night. Students in Advanced Playwriting all wrote a 45 minute play that was acted and directed by other students. It was cool because it was kind of a reciprocity thing, if you directed someone's play, you'd let them act in yours, or something like that. I had a couple friends that were involved so it was nice to see their hardwork pay off. Thursday, I worked a half day again and then went to some more plays. It torrentially down poured here on Friday and the Dimple was a lake.


Saturday night, a few friends and I went down to Providence to Dave & Busters. It's in the Providence Place Mall and I like to describe it as Chucky Cheese for adults. It's basically a bar with arcade games. My absolute favorite game is this Trivia game that I am so addicted to. You play against 5 other people and you just win an incredible amount of tickets. We pooled our tickets and ended up with a ton, but they didn't have the cups that we wanted, so we are saving them for next time. It's really convenient to get down there and it's less than a half hour drive.

Sunday, my roommate and I drove up in to Boston and went to the Wang Theater to see the Boston Ballet. Oh my goodness, it was incredible. Her family goes all the time and we had front row seats. We could see the sweat coming off the dancers and we could hear them breathing. It wasn't too close though, because the orchestra pit was in front of us. AMAZING experience. I mean the place is all gold and sparkly and we were dressed up nice, wow just wow.

Spring break is next week!

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