Year in Review-Fourth Year
Fourth year has been a crazy awesome ride. I am so excited to keep moving, shaking, and growing. This year has been a huge step in gaining that attitude, and I finally feel like I am making the most of my college experience and growing into a confident adult.
Fall semester was the hardest course load I have ever had. I knew it was coming. I had heard the rumblings from ChemEs older than me, but I thought it was all talk. It. Was. Not. Although it was a struggle, I feel I learned more about myself as an engineering student than I have in any other semesters. I also just generally learned more than I have any other semester. Seems departments save some incredible professors to teach the hard stuff. Who knew? The monkey wrench in the system of fall semester came when I got mono at the beginning of November. That put me down for most of the rest of the semester, and I am honestly proud to have made it out alive, happy, and still on Dean's List.
Spring semester I worked for L'Oreal at a manufacturing site in Florence, KY. Through my co-op position in their packaging department, I learned a lot about myself as an employee as well as further defined what I want out of my future career. I loved the opportunity I had to work in a position that allowed me to get close to the ultimate profit-generating product. I was also able to see real, quantifiable results from my projects there which was an incredibly rewarding feeling. Lastly, L'Oreal hires around 10 interns a semester and the site is small enough that you get to know one another well, but not so small that you work on top of one another. This was a change from my previous terms, and I loved having that many peers in my work place (constant stream of lunch buddies!).
I was planning on staying on at L'Oreal for the summer term as well, but then I received an email about a new location for the International Experience Program to work abroad. So instead, I find myself starting work this week in London. (Writing this year in review from my apartment in Zone 1 and it all feels surreal.) I will be working for a company called Yoomi that makes self-warming baby bottles. It will be a new experience in a small office setting, but I am excited since all of my previous work experiences have been at large companies.
Bring it on.
Fall semester was the hardest course load I have ever had. I knew it was coming. I had heard the rumblings from ChemEs older than me, but I thought it was all talk. It. Was. Not. Although it was a struggle, I feel I learned more about myself as an engineering student than I have in any other semesters. I also just generally learned more than I have any other semester. Seems departments save some incredible professors to teach the hard stuff. Who knew? The monkey wrench in the system of fall semester came when I got mono at the beginning of November. That put me down for most of the rest of the semester, and I am honestly proud to have made it out alive, happy, and still on Dean's List.
Spring semester I worked for L'Oreal at a manufacturing site in Florence, KY. Through my co-op position in their packaging department, I learned a lot about myself as an employee as well as further defined what I want out of my future career. I loved the opportunity I had to work in a position that allowed me to get close to the ultimate profit-generating product. I was also able to see real, quantifiable results from my projects there which was an incredibly rewarding feeling. Lastly, L'Oreal hires around 10 interns a semester and the site is small enough that you get to know one another well, but not so small that you work on top of one another. This was a change from my previous terms, and I loved having that many peers in my work place (constant stream of lunch buddies!).
I was planning on staying on at L'Oreal for the summer term as well, but then I received an email about a new location for the International Experience Program to work abroad. So instead, I find myself starting work this week in London. (Writing this year in review from my apartment in Zone 1 and it all feels surreal.) I will be working for a company called Yoomi that makes self-warming baby bottles. It will be a new experience in a small office setting, but I am excited since all of my previous work experiences have been at large companies.
Bring it on.