Week Nine: Beginning of the End
Last week was the second-to-last week of my internship. A part of me couldn't believe it when I informed ROLC of it during our Monday meeting, even when I double checked the weeks just to make sure, but as soon as the words left my mouth it started to sink in. I knew I still had two weeks left, but it still felt like time was going too fast.
This week I worked on a continuation of the project I mentioned last week, but a different part of it. After completing what I could of the guidance document, I created a masterlist of questions I thought hosts and interns would ask during the internship. While I haven't talked about the project itself too much during my time here, I will say that this particular project felt strange due to how nebulous it was. While I knew what the project entailed, the specifics I needed in order to fully write everything down accurately were entirely unknown to me. Additionally, while it was not like there was a hard pressed deadline for it that I had to complete, there was the impression that somewhere along the way, something would change, so we would have to be ready for that possibility. The idea of going into something and having no guidelines on what to, what I was working for, or how the project would actually work wasn't too stressful, but it did make me feel off-kilter whenever I worked on the project. I just hope that what I wrote down wasn't horribly wrong in any way.
Halfway through the week, one of the members of ROLC asked me if there was anywhere I wanted to eat for lunch on my last day at ROLC. A part of me thought I shouldn't have been so surprised, since we ate out for lunch for someone else leaving ROLC. However, he had been at ROLC for years, while I had been there for only a few months. I didn't think my departure would be that big of a deal, but I suppose that's what happens when you're working with a small team. Either way, I'm grateful.