What lessons did you learn during your internship that you just couldn’t learn in the classroom or from a textbook?
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Dong Yangsays
Since I am just a sophomore so I have less exposure to my major and don’t have a full understanding of what I will learn after my major, but I think I will have less exposure to the R language in the classroom and learn more about what may become other languages. In addition, I think MIS majors may have less exposure to modeling and statistics majors may have more exposure to modeling, because I am not very familiar with these two majors, so this is just my guess. I have some insights in the process of this internship, in the school classroom more focus on the understanding of knowledge, and in the internship work is sometimes more need for simple understanding of knowledge only after a simple understanding to complete the work well.
I think the biggest difference between the classroom and the internship is that when we are in a classroom, we deal with hypothetical situations whereas in the internship we use real world situations. For example, a data analysis could be based on a hypothetical scenario whereas at the internship I would have to deal with real world data to produce good insights and results. Being accountable is another thing I learned during the internship. In class if things are not done it will only affect that individual whereas during the internship if something is not done it affects a greater body in the organization.
Since I am just a sophomore so I have less exposure to my major and don’t have a full understanding of what I will learn after my major, but I think I will have less exposure to the R language in the classroom and learn more about what may become other languages. In addition, I think MIS majors may have less exposure to modeling and statistics majors may have more exposure to modeling, because I am not very familiar with these two majors, so this is just my guess. I have some insights in the process of this internship, in the school classroom more focus on the understanding of knowledge, and in the internship work is sometimes more need for simple understanding of knowledge only after a simple understanding to complete the work well.
I think the biggest difference between the classroom and the internship is that when we are in a classroom, we deal with hypothetical situations whereas in the internship we use real world situations. For example, a data analysis could be based on a hypothetical scenario whereas at the internship I would have to deal with real world data to produce good insights and results. Being accountable is another thing I learned during the internship. In class if things are not done it will only affect that individual whereas during the internship if something is not done it affects a greater body in the organization.