Yinping Hu

Overall, this internship has been a great learning experience. Not only did it help me connect what I have learned in the classroom to what is actually taking place in a real corporate setting, I was also able to learn the business etiquette and practice that in my daily interactions with my managers and my peers. In particular, I’m extremely…[Read more]

I think one thing that you can only learn while on the job is working with people from different functional groups. Working on the project management team has really shown me the difficulty of getting everyone on the same page and motivating all to move towards a common goal. That is not to say the team is dysfunctional but just that members have…[Read more]

I think what I have learned in 2502 and 3504 have been the most helpful in my internship so far. It might has to do with the nature of the project that I’m involved in, which has to do with data migration into data warehouses and report generation by pulling facts from that data warehouse. 2502 definitely provided me the hard skills to understand…[Read more]

Last semester I had classes with a lot of coursework (RMI 3501 and 3502) while also doing a part-time internship in south Philly. How I managed my time was really prioritizing the assignments and squeezing out any tiny bits of time during the day that I have. For example, I commuted to my internship place on the subway; so I would read the…[Read more]

I think one of the most important skills in the workplace is time management/prioritization. Everyday there are different tasks coming in but there are only so many hours in the day that you have to work on these; so then the question becomes how to prioritize the tasks and allocate your time approriately. I am still learning this because I don’t…[Read more]