Laurel Miller

My experience was fantastic overall. I got exposed to different types of work tasks for my Technology Risk Advisory team. I talked to many people in other Advisory groups within Deloitte. I experienced the more stressful parts of the job and saw that it was bearable. I made new friends that I want to keep for a long time. I found the environment of professional services firms to be a great fit for me. I’m happy that I had the chance to intern this summer with Deloitte. I wrote a more detailed post about my experience on my MIS site http://community.mis.temple.edu/ngocpham/

I had an amazing experience. I learned a lot of useful skills and met great people throughout the company. Being my first corporate role in a company I got to experience the full experience by assisting several different departments. I started off in the service management office doing excel spreadsheets and footprints work. Then I transisted into the IT asset management department. I took apart over 200 desktop and labtop computer hard drives. After that I am currently finishing off my experience assisting the Desktop Engineering team by backing up and replacing over 30 employee desktops for workers who rely on this for their everyday work.

My experience at SAP was amazing. I learned so many tangible skills and intangible skills. I really like the SAP corporate culture and am trying to land a full time offer. One of the best part about working at SAP that I did not mention before is their food! They have many dinning options with amazing chefs that cook delicious food. Taco Tuesdays are my fave! I was able to get a full time offer for for the summer about a different project. Planning on having it turned into a full time offer!
I really like the part about gathering requirements proposing design solutions and actually building the site. looking forward to do something along those lines for full time!

My time at goPuff was unforgettable. Being in a disruptive company, I have a chance to see such a historical moment to see the company grow so quick, make friends, know about people at goPuff. Also, the co-founders inspired me with their story and background. They are only a few years older than me and now own a multi-million dollar company! I was lucky enough to be here for the annual offsite to hear about goPuff visions, stories, and culture. It was the moment that I decided to apply after graduation.

I loved my QVC internship! I am not quite done as I still have about a week to go but thinking about leaving here is already bittersweet. I have really learned a lot of lessons during my time and cannot thank the QVC team enough for being so welcoming & caring. My team has been wonderful and they always have treated me as I am a part of them! I would love to take the opportunity of continuing my journey at QVC but unfortunately I won’t be able to commute to West Chester after the school year starts. Temple is quite far away and traffic tends to make it more difficult to get to the office. Nevertheless, I am excited for what my next internship holds! I am definitely considering applying to QVC for the next summer and maybe staying on for a longer time then.

My experience with Fox Run Brands is really beneficial. I have learned more about the customer goods and e-commerce industry. One of the most exciting things is that I have the chance to learn about Amazon advertising. I have been analyzing and creating different ads on both Amazon Vendor Central and Seller Central. Working for this company will be one of my choices after graduation

For me, the internship ended today. I was waving goodbye and hugging my team, my project team, and the whole class of Ogilvy interns this afternoon. Excuse me as I got long-winded a bit.

After everything, I learned the foundation of almost all aspects of advertising: from research, planning, strategy, to creative, production, and (data-driven) delivery. My work in the Social Practice allows me to get between the tech and humanities. I learned to look at conversation data for peaks, percentages, while using my understanding of culture to decipher the core behind the conversations. I was tasked with looking out into the industry and find the best and latest in Social, to enrich both myself and my team; I got to look into social platforms to understand them inside and out.
The best part though is to get to know the people. The whole class of interns are genuine, kind, and incredible driven. I found out that my network expanded 3 folds with them in it, and that they taught me so much during my time working on a project with them.
I completed my internship with a greater network, many more friends, and a direction. I know that the Associates Program of Ogilvy is difficult thing to enter (no fast track I guess), but I will use every bit of myself and what I learned here to get in again.

Still, Ogilvy has given me the ability and strength to go at opportunities, even ones I have not thought of.

My experience at RSM was very informative and fun. The team I worked with had a great group of people from the associate level, all the way up to partners. As far as the work I did, getting a chance to go behind the scenes of an ERP implementation was extremely informative. My only regret was that my time at this internship was so short, which limited my ability to learn even more. This internship as a consultant definitely allowed me to narrow down which direction I want to take my career. I’m coming into my last week, where I hope to receive word on whether I can come on full time.

My experience at Universal Health Services has been very positive. I have learned a lot and met many great people including the people on my team and the other interns on different teams. I never really considered going into a health care field, but it seems like a very rewarding job and the people that work here really love what they do. I have never worked in an office setting so it was very different for me, but the culture here seems like a good fit and something I could get used to. My supervisor has asked me to join the team full time when I graduate in December, which I am very fortunate for. I am excited to see where this experience will take me in my career.

I had an amazing experience at Campbells! I loved almost everything about it: the culture, the people, meaningful work for an intern. I’m very grateful for this internship and the impact it has had on me – as well as the opportunity for me to make an impact at the company.

I will stay on part-time during the year to lead a project that I’ve been working on – I’m very excited for the journey ahead!

I have had a great experience this summer with Cigna. I still have two more weeks left, and will spend the last week in Connecticut where the interns will be presenting our projects to senior leaders. The internship ends on the 17th, and I will find out if I will be offered a full-time position shortly after, but I am considering staying on part-time once school starts. Overall, my internship has been awesome and provided me with so many opportunities to learn, meet new people, and push myself out of my comfort zone. I’ve liked being a part of a program because it gave me the opportunity to meet full-time associates who are generally around the same age as me and hear about their experiences/why they chose Cigna. Everyone I’ve met has been so friendly and willing to help, which has made this learning experience very fun and I am very grateful that I got to spend my summer at such a great company.

Today my internship at Ernst and Young ended, and it was all that I could have ever wanted. I got to meet some extraordinary people and learn quality skills that will last me for a lifetime. I was able to network with employees and interns from all over the country and world this past week at our International Intern Leadership Conference in Disney. As well as get to hear some unbelievable speakers and take part in leadership/team-building activities. During the course of my internship I learned a lot about not just Risk Advisory but also myself and how I like to work. I am pleased to announce that I have been able to take this opportunity and turn it into a full-time offer for next year!

This has been a fantastic one, I will certainly remember it for the rest of my life. Beyond running Vitris I completed my bachelors degree, this assignment being the last one of my college career. We’ve grown a lot together at Vitris over the past couple months, I’m constantly looking back and thinking about what I’ve done wrong in the past which gives me a feeling of progress because we continue to overcome obstacles. Although the mistakes of the past bother me, they also help shape our wins of today so hopefully the mistakes I’m making today will shape our progress of the future.

I continue to receive job offers from recruiters, hiring managers and people in my network. However, I’m pretty happy with the position Vitris is in today and will keep working full-time for the foreseeable future.

Some lessons I learned during my internship that could not be learned in the classroom are how to be proactive, completing the steps to actually implementing an ERP system, and client communication over the phone.
Since I’m just an intern I do not have a workload of my own and am reliant on my team members to delegate work to me, so part of what I learned about being proactive is asking for work from each team member that way they were aware I had free time to help them on their projects.
As far as implementing an ERP system, we can learn theory in the classroom, but when its an actual client it is a whole new experience and how to handle the changes are a part of the lessons I have learned.
Lastly, phone calls are my biggest weakness, but a part of being a good consultant is being able to communicate effectively over the phone to the client. Good phone communication allows meetings to go quicker, the correct information gathered, and the reduction in confusion as to what needs to be done.

A few things I’ve learned throughout my internship so far is how large corporations operate and communicate. I never worked in a company this large before with so many departments. I’ve learned that communication is key in being succesful in this kind of job because when you run into an issue you have to propertly communicate that to another department. A great example for this is while some people in IT communicate one way,others in servicing may be less experienced in technology and communicate in simpler terms when having to complete an online task.

One thing I learned from my internship that I could not learn in the classroom is that even though UHS is a huge company with many different teams that contribute different things, we all need to work together to accomplish tasks. You may think that one team is completely unrelated to another one, but if you want to implement a change there is a huge possibility that many teams will be effected by that change. So it is crucial to communicate with one another. Communication and working in teams is something you can learn in the classroom, but to this degree is something you have to experience in the corporate world. Another thing is phone etiquette like when you are on a conference call with many people. It is important to not cut people off, but equally important to be able to get your input in there. At first, it was hard for me to interject, but sometimes it is what you need to do and I have become more comfortable with it.

Selling products in the e-commerce is the things that I could not just learn the classroom. In class, we usually study about what is digital marketing, e-commerce, how it looks like, how can we figure the strategies for it but we did not learn the real-life skills of it. As working in the Sales Analyst position, I have to deal a lot with e-commerce skills. I started learning different new skills about this area that I had not learned in class.

Couldn’t agree more with being comfortable with being uncomfortable. It feels like almost everyday half of my calendar is rearranged.

Like a lot of answers above, I agree that communication cannot be learned from a textbook. Each company has different styles of communication. At goPuff, it’s common to call each other “bro” or “fam”, and use emojis in our Slack channel. This is directly related to their young culture. It takes me a little bit of time to adjust my communication style to my coworkers since I was used to the formal Fox school style. Knowing what is appropriate and not over the line is important when your boss is only a few years younger than you.

Most of what I learn on this internship and the last were new to me, as Fox does not have a structured course in advertising or agency work. There are a few key things that can’t be learned in a classroom:
– How a particular organization works: how each person work with other members in the team; how knowledge-sharing works on Slack and other channels; and who specializes on what area, regardless of titles.
– Technical skills: an organization can use a specialized set of tools for analytics, research, and intelligence, requiring newcomers to attend training in each tool set.
– Strategic thinking: by working on real projects with real clients, I practiced approaching a problem and solving it in terms of industry and company-specific frameworks.
= Relationship management: managing expectations from colleagues and bosses; learning how to ask for advice and learn new things; and showing initiative at key moments.
– Tons of industry knowledge: after many years in operation, the organization has amassed a vast amount of past cases, best practices, and unique lessons. I learned a lot just by looking through Ogilvy’s archive of slide decks and marketing cases.

One thing I’ve learned from working at Campbells, the same thing as a lot of previous comments mentioned, is the importance of tracking and following up – taking ownership of something until it is done. Before, I was used to the thinking that as long as I do my part well, others’ parts are their responsibilities – however, working in the real world, I’ve learned that I’m also responsible for supporting others to do their parts well in order to drive a project to success.

Organizational skills cant be taught in class. Everyone has different way of organizing their documents and appointments. Some use planners some use straight memory. I found simple technological tools like outlook calendar and to-do list was very important skill that came handy. Secondly, As I was in charge of managing my department’s JAM site platform is similar to a word press drag drop site. I did not learn the platform in class but fortunately SAP had plenty of tutorials or me to learn this from.

A skill that I learned during my internship and not in the classroom would be adjusting to someone working style. During my time with QVC, I had to collaborate with various people from different departments. This experience forced me to learn about their work flow and communication style to be able to work better together. Also, my internship taught me how to manage tasks that are unexpected in time-crunch situations. At times, something might come up and I would have to drop everything and direct my attention to a completely different task. This taught me how to stay calm & not panic and manage my time better when things come up.

In my opinion, the MIS program has done an amazing job preparing me for this internship.

I used most of what I have learned in MIS classes in this internship. I have been in two WordPress projects, which using the community site and taking MIS3501, 3502 definitely helped. 3506 gave me the understanding of business analysis, which is a critical skill for what I do, I haven’t taken MIS3535 but I wished I took it last semester because a lot of what I do now is project management. I can’t stress enough how helpful MIS2501 was because it helped me to understand the architecture component of every project I manage now, and the company is actually migrating its data centers to Azure this year – the very technology we learned in class!

In addition to skills learned in class, I have learned so much from life experience of professors who have been in the industry, like professor Doyle and professor Sclarow. Through their stories, I learned what to expect about IT professionals or senior management, workplace etiquette and politics,

The following courses and activities at Temple have really helped me in this internship:
– Excel: our business Excel course does a great job in giving us the methods for using Excel effectively and efficiently.
– Analytics competitions: these taught me to find data from government/industry sources quickly, and then use knowledge of data to clean, combine, and compare them in useful ways, My constant practice in creating charts and graphics also helped me produce a chart that actually helped my team decide on customer segments.
= MIS – Digital Studio: an ad agency deals heavily in client relationship, and the course taught me to see things from the perspectives of the client and its customers. Knowing how to scope a project and to develop personas are also useful for building the sales pitch.
– MIS – Data Science & Data Analytics: I applied my understanding of data to analyzing data sources (for research) and to evaluating digital and social ad campaigns. Knowing which customer data were necessary to run an idea allows me to look beyond the hype for the true innovation and value behind a new campaign.
– Marketing courses: the business fundamentals necessary for every task in the agency.
– The process: the whole process of learning, especially in MIS, requires constant self-education and practice. The habit I cultivated to get better at coding, business analysis, and analytics has helped me keep up with industry trends, new changes to ad platforms, and complex KPI measurements.

The MIS program and Fox School as a whole have helped me greatly so far in my internship.
MIS 3506 was super helpful because it helped me prepare to meet with clients and to formulate what kind of questions I need to be asking. Although I am in audit and not consulting, so I am not taking the same steps as the class project, scoping out projects helped me learn what it is in a project I should be looking for and how to document appropriately. MIS 2502 was also helpful because of our use with SQL, when auditing clients I have to make sure that the SQL scripts that they give to us as evidence provide enough information to properly determine if their processes are accurate. Business communications taught me how to be concise and proper when communicating with coworkers/clients. MIS 2501 helped me gain a understanding about how enterprise architectures work, allowing me to gain a better understanding of how all the systems and applications I audit come together.

Some things that I have learned in the classroom that I have leveraged at my internship is basic knowledge of financial statements, such as what comprises them and the general rules. I have also had to leverage my knowledge of query statements in order to get the information needed to complete some of the tasks I have been handed. Something more general that I have leveraged is being able to sit down with a problem to attempt to figure it out myself before getting help from a supervisor. I picked this up while in the classroom since it’s not possible to get every question answered in a timely manner in the classroom. This applies to the workplace as well; if I always waited for answers to questions, I would not be able to complete my tasks efficiently. A final piece of knowledge that I have leveraged is professional business communication skills that I learned in Business Communication. I have been using the skills learned in the class to craft better emails and business requirements documentation.

the courses MIS2502 (Data Analytics) and MKTG3508 (Digital Marketing) provided me many skills that has leveraged my internship. For the course MIS2502, I have learned how to analyze data and create reports. These skills help me a lot since I have to analyze large number of data during the internship. Besides, the course MKTG3508 gave me the knowledge about Digital Marketing and SEO which helps me alot to understand about Amazon campaign and ranking.

In my opinion, there are a great deal of skills I learned at MIS that really help me during my internship.

Data analytics: Since one of my project is doing data analytics to find insight and pattern for the League. The data analytics class is a great course for developing myself with a data mindset and continue learn the SQL database skills. Nowadays, the industry is filled with numbers and figure, thus, the class allow to give us the necessary tool (SQL Workbench, Excel, PowerPivot, graphs) to transform the data into information.

IT architecture: This course is great and necessary for MIS. Before I started my internship I have no knowledge how extensive cybersecurity and Windows Management are in the business world. Basically, these are the backbone that support the enterprise software, complicated networking, remote access to different computers, SONICWALL system and so on. These skills are necessary because it is a valuable knowledge to have for leveraging ourselves, since the pay rate for this knowledge is relatively higher

Over the past few years, I have learned a lot from the different classes in Fox and the MIS program, and have been able to leverage so much of what I’ve learned in the classroom during my internship this summer. Two classes that I would say have been especially helpful were Business Communications and MIS 3506. I have applied lessons from BizComm when it comes to writing emails effectively and giving strong presentations. I have also been able to apply a lot of what I learned in MIS 3506 to my work on the summer intern project. Understanding how to put together a scope document and use cases, as well as knowing how to ask the right questions to the right stakeholders, has been extremely beneficial in guiding me as I put together my team’s project charter, plan out features/user stories, and reach out to the project sponsors with questions.

There are several things that I’ve learned in the classroom that helped me leverage my internship.

Excel was one of the main things that was important to gain knowledge of since pretty much every task that I do at work requires it. I was also happy to find that the ability to use shortcuts within the program allowed me to complete assignments faster and be able to finish more work efficiently.

MIS 3501 helped me understand how a website is constructed. Because of this I am able to communicate faster with the IT team and overall comprehend my job better.

Finally, Marketing 2101 gave me the general marketing knowledge that I needed to be able to participate in conversations in regards to the upcoming promotions or changes that are going to be done on the website.

Many of the things I have learned throughout my experience at Temple I have been able to leverage during my internship. For example, in the Data Analytics course (MIS 2502) we learned SQL which has helped me because here at UHS we use something called CCL (Cerner Command Language) which is exactly like SQL. I am constantly running queries and audits to gather data. In that same course we also learned how to extract data from large sets of data in excel using a number of different ways like VLOOKUP. I have used VLOOKUP a number of times and it is something that has been very useful. Another course that has proven to be very helpful is Business Communications (BA 2196). Every day I send emails and messages and I have to always make sure to maintain a professional tone. That course taught me the fundamentals of working in an office setting and the do’s and dont’s of being a working professional.

So Far I applied many of what I learned in the Excel course I took last year in my everyday job functions. Throughout most days I extract data from a database and then filter it out to use the only data I need. I often use pivot tables and color coding to help organize my excel spreadsheets and manipulate data. I also use what I learned in business communications as well, I try and keep my messages short and simple without too much fluff to bring my point across in a short professional email or skype message. I also applied what I learned from our CSPD class on how to act, dress and communicate around to office, I found what I learned at Fox really helpful in my career so far.

At SAP, I have significant data analysis and BI work. I have developed this skill from my data science and data analytics class. The excel formulas, tips and trips I learned in these classes has made my job easier. Lumira, a Business Intelligence program by SAP is very similar to Tableau which I learned in Data Science. The skills I learned in these classes helped with data related tasks. I am learning many project management skills in MIS 3535 that I have used while managing short projects at SAP.
I have also done a lot of work with gathering requirements and building a new internal and external site for Partners with agile approach. I learned this skill in MIS 3506 and MIS 3535.

I have been having a really hard time trying to balance two. Working on a new schedule has me still attempting to adapt, and I still can’t quite get my phone calendar to properly alert me about the dates that I set for this classes assignments. So, my current system of trying to handle everything is now to try and check on the class website every few days to make sure that I am not late on assignments like I was at the beginning of this class. Going forward I would like to find a better way to get myself alerted about what is due, so that I am not in a constant state of anxiety about deadlines. Often when at the internship I am already so focused on EY business that school can slip my mind.

It is indeed hard to tend to both work and summer course assignments, and admittedly I have come close to not finishing assignments on time or forgetting a task. Work and training at Ogilvy move quickly, capturing most of my attention.

I can’t boast to be successful at balancing work and study (yet), but I am trying to adopt the following practices to get better at it:
– Set reminders: either through Gmail or any vendors one is familiar with.
– Observe and take notes: most of our assignments this summer is to record and report our accomplishments and difficulties, so it is best to have self-awareness in all situations. When the time comes to self-reflect, the work will have already been done.
– Keep tasks close: put your assignment tab on the bookmark bar, and put the most important tasks into notes that you will see every time you open your work laptop.

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To balance my schoolwork and my internship, I’m using different tools and tactics:
– I create a tracking table for all my tasks and information about both the class and my internship on OneNote. I update and check this tracking table every day.
– I schedule the time to do school work on my Google Calendar
– I also take an hour or so every week to plan out what I need to do for the following week
– Checking in regularly with my supervisor also helps me stay on top of my tasks at work

It hasn’t been easy to balance school and work but I am trying to make some improvements within my schedule. It is really simple to forget about something being due on a certain day. I strive to check the class website at least 3-4 times a week to make sure I am up to date on when assignments are due. I also mark the due dates in my Google Calendar to keep track. Finally, I set time aside on the weekend to work on assignments. Since sometimes I tend to rest on weekends, I also set time aside during the week after work to spend at least an hour or so on my computer doing work. Overall, it hasn’t been easy working, commuting, and doing school but I’m sure it will get better soon!

The first time experiencing working 40 hours full-time internship and having summer classes can be hard. I suggest schedule everything carefully, Since working and studying together, there will be many things that need to accomplish. what I do is that I create a reminder on my phone with all the deadlines for assignments at school. By that way, I never forgot or passed the deadlines. I keep updating that reminder every day before I go to bed and check to see if there will be anything I needed to do tomorrow. That is how I balance my schoolwork and internship.

Throughout the month of June, I was honestly struggling to balance a 40 hour work week with summer classes. Initially, I tried putting everything in the calendar app on my phone, but after struggling for a few weeks to balance it all, I decided to actually hang a dry erase calendar on the wall in my room. Now that it’s the beginning of July, over the weekend I took the time to write in all assignment due dates and important work dates for the month on the calendar. I usually check the class site throughout the week, but to make sure my calendar is always up to date, I’ve set a recurring reminder on Sundays to check this site and review my work schedule for the week. I’ve found that having something that I can look at every morning when I’m getting ready for the day helps me to always be one step ahead and not get overwhelmed with anxiety when important meetings/assignments are coming up.

It was difficult in the beginning finding a way to balance school and work. I was not sure how the class was going to be set up, but after a few weeks I put all the assignment due dates in my calendar on my phone and also wrote them down in my planner. If I have some free time at work or sometimes on my lunch break I will try to do some school work or at least check the class site because usually when the weekend comes around I just want to relax and not have to think about school or work. I have also been documenting everything I am doing like projects and meetings so that doing the class assignments will be easier for me in the long run.

I am handling doing both an internship and school work pretty well. To keep myself organized I make a list of everything I have to do at the start of my day. I include both school work and internship work. The list helps to remind me of the tasks needed to get done and keep me on track. For longer-term projects, I utilize sticky notes on my desktop, and a calendar to keep my mind thinking about how to schedule it into my daily tasks.

It is hard to maintain the balance since my primary responsibility in my job is project management, there are a million little things that I need to keep track of on top of school work, One approach I found very effective is create a to-do list every day and write it down on the whiteboard at my desk so I can see clearly what needs to be done and the progress of everything.

Since I have worked around 15 hours per week and taken 18 credits with a lot of extra curriculum activities in the school year, I have adjusted and learned how to keep together.

– Google Calendar is my friend. I put everything on my calendar and assign different colors to each kind of task. For example, classes and academic-related items are blue, work is yellow, activities are red… This method helps me track the hours allocated to each category. I also sync it to my iPhone to receive notifications 10 mins prior to the event. This acts like a secretary to remind me what I have for the day and helps me countless of time when I forgot my appointments.
– At the beginning of the day, I usually go over the tasks on email and Slack and double-check with my supervisor. If I finish the task before the workday, I report and sign off with my supervisor. If it is not finished, the process repeats in the morning.

Throughout my internship so far I’ve had a hard time balancing my internship and schoolwork for several reasons. I work 40 hours a week so it”s very time consuming for me. Also my laptop has broken one week into the internship so I’ve had a hard time having access online but when I do I give it my best to put in quality work.

Ways I plan on improving it in the future:
– Purchasing a new laptop ASAP
– Setting up a recurring timeslot every week in my busy schedule to get my online work done in a timely manner
– Taking Notes of new skills, lessons, and experience I’ve gained from the internship while I’m there.

Micromanaging time is necessary esp for me as I have two part-time jobs including my internship and full-time school work. Having the work-life balance is critical. I use tools like google calendar it helps me organize my tasks and meetings. I find the inbuilt checklist feature in google calendar very helpful. I also have solid time slots allocated for school work and internship work. This approach may seem siloed but it works well as I like to that both work and school differentiated.

Time management is a great skills to have especially when you want to develop a career with time for the job and time for ourselves. By managing my schedule with a calendar is how I use my time wisely, especially during a full-time internship.
Moreover, by keeping a task lists per day to remind myself the necessary things, chores, and tasks need to be accomplished. This way I could be more efficient with my time, and developing a healthy schedule for the internship and myself.