Leah Herman

My experience with Liberty Mutal as a whole was positive, but I did not have the best experience with my team. I learned a lot about internal IT audit, but my next step will be working at Ernst and Young in their Risk Advisory practice! My time at Liberty will help me greatly at my full-time job because I will be auditing work that is very similar…[Read more]

Something that I learned during my internship that I couldn’t learn in the classroom or from a textbook is scheduling/ time management. The ability to independently create your own schedule is a vital skill in the business world. I am a person who tends to get bored very easily, so I needed to plan my time accordingly so that I could switch…[Read more]

The courses that assisted me the most at my internship were MIS2502 (Data Analytics) and MIS 2501 (Enterprise IT Architecture). For the MIS2502 class, the excel skills that were taught in the form of data analysis were invaluable because excel is a central application that is used to keep track of everything. Additionally, MIS2501 helped when I…[Read more]

I am huge with checklists. I always immediately write down everything I need to do and put a box next to it. I also was able to prioritize each objective by placing a star or highlighting what needed to be done sooner. Additionally, I always set reminders for myself. Most of the time they are through Google Calendars, or I can tell Siri “Remind me…[Read more]

A large struggle that I had to deal with throughout the entirety of my internship was the “learning curve” associated with audit (specifically IT audit) testwork. At the start of my internship, I was given a mentor, but the issue was that she was located in the Portsmouth, NH office. This created an environment in which I felt weird asking…[Read more]

Hi Everyone!
My internship was at Liberty Mutal Insurance at their headquarters in Boston, MA. I worked within their corporate internal audit group as an IT Audit intern. Throughout the internship, I worked on five different audits. These audits were mainly on the Unix/ Linux servers and databases. Although we learned about windows enterprise…[Read more]