I remember entering building “A” at AT&T the same way I remember my first day of college: excited, eager and anxious. I remembered something that the career advisors at the iSchool told me: one of the key experiences during your time as a graduate student is doing an internship. Gaining work experience is key for… Read the full article…
The last few days of my internship were busy. I was wrapping up projects and making sure physical and digital assets ended up in the right hands. The highlight was that I finished my processing project! I rehoused the last files and re-shelved the collection on my second to last day—just in the nick of… Read the full article…
Throughout my time at Essére Atelier in Florence this summer, I learned so much about the world of marketing as well as global perspectives. A Life-changing Summer This experience made me think again about the classes that I will be taking during my next 2 years. While I loved getting to work in the social… Read the full article…
The library has committed itself to providing digital versions of items and resources in the collection as a way to expand access. This includes acquiring digital materials, such as purchasing e-books, and digitizing existing parts of the collection. The library even has Digitization Librarian, who works to manage all of these different projects and materials…. Read the full article…
I have two weeks remaining and next week I will be presenting my summer project to my fellow interns, managers, and URBN executives. I love learning hands-on, so this blog post is a great opportunity for me to reflect, share some new knowledge, and a few skills I have learned. The Command Line The first… Read the full article…
Going to the office on my first day, I was overwhelmed with information. I was trying to jot down important notes and learn what was taught for the whole week. My team was actively preparing for the presentation and I was afraid that I would let them down by not knowing enough, but I knew… Read the full article…
Building character and experience is the primary reason students apply for internships. This includes working on projects or real-world problems in order to prepare them for their first steps out of the academic realm. For any project that I have worked on, there has always been one, if not many, problems that are seemingly impossible… Read the full article…
Today, one of the sexiest job titles is “Data Scientist.” Have you ever wondered why there is a sudden increase in the demand for this position over the past few years? A very simple answer would be that over the last decade there’s been a gigantic explosion in the data generated (Big Data) and retained… Read the full article…
The past few weeks had been a hell of a roller coaster ride. I’m glad that Franklin Templeton Investments offered me this opportunity. Building dashboards and models I always wanted to innovate and build my own dashboards and models that can help the company make real-time vital decisions and provide them with useful insights. I… Read the full article…
My main project, processing a collection of final grant reports of National Geographic funded research, has been going well over the last few weeks. Collection processing update After getting all of the physical materials organized, I’ve made a lot of progress rehousing the files and creating metadata for the digital records. As I made my… Read the full article…