Well.
Accomplishments of the internship:
big numbers: $90,000 year-long contract. 30,000 construction drawings. 100 years' worth of construction information.
the grunt work: maintenance specifications for pipelines. database and records management. making good friends with the xerox machine. handled wide-format scanner in-house and outside requests. filed (and re-filed and troubleshot) documents like you wouldn't believe.
deliverables: centralized spreadsheets (we have to thank next door for doing such a good job, actually). sheet-level counts (this means I counted each and every sheet of paper in a cabinet; the grand total runs up to 3248 that are recorded). detailed inventory sheets and a whole half-day of detective work.
people: they want me back, and they're willing to go the whole extra nine yards to send me away to achieve what I want to achieve. (the question now is really, do I still want to achieve?)
and: actual interior design - the whole measure tape and recording and calculating and estimating and plan tracing and hijacking of graph paper and internet searching (because I don't know autoCAD).
Manager: So, I'm following the color-coding that you have here... you have your proposed phases and your scaling and your proportions, but what's with those putrid colors in the middle?
Me: ... Uh, it's the actual color of the cabinets in the room.
big numbers: $90,000 year-long contract. 30,000 construction drawings. 100 years' worth of construction information.
the grunt work: maintenance specifications for pipelines. database and records management. making good friends with the xerox machine. handled wide-format scanner in-house and outside requests. filed (and re-filed and troubleshot) documents like you wouldn't believe.
deliverables: centralized spreadsheets (we have to thank next door for doing such a good job, actually). sheet-level counts (this means I counted each and every sheet of paper in a cabinet; the grand total runs up to 3248 that are recorded). detailed inventory sheets and a whole half-day of detective work.
people: they want me back, and they're willing to go the whole extra nine yards to send me away to achieve what I want to achieve. (the question now is really, do I still want to achieve?)
and: actual interior design - the whole measure tape and recording and calculating and estimating and plan tracing and hijacking of graph paper and internet searching (because I don't know autoCAD).
Manager: So, I'm following the color-coding that you have here... you have your proposed phases and your scaling and your proportions, but what's with those putrid colors in the middle?
Me: ... Uh, it's the actual color of the cabinets in the room.