I think that Rob Riordan is saying in his quote about the internship is that the point of an internship is not to confirm your career interest or figure out what you want to do with your life. I think he means to say that through internship you can use the opportunity to experience a professional working environment and reflect on your learning. To dive deeper and analyze your work ethics and moral insights. My internship site, Kauffman Lab at UCSD’s vision/goal follows as stated on their website, “Our goal is to better understand the hormonal and neural mechanisms underlying reproduction in order to improve fertility treatments in humans, elucidate novel contraceptive methods, and enhance treatment of pubertal and developmental disorders.” I think that serving others develops my sense of self by increasing my sense of relatedness. By being more social and participating in social interactions and activities I can improve my sense of person to person and group collaboration. I can also practice mutual understanding with others. I know that there’s research behind the fact that serving our community and other’s can cause positive brain health effects such as boosting moods and giving ourselves a sense of meaning and purpose. A skill that I can use to contribute to my internship site’s goals is my class experience with dissection and use of scientific equipment. I practiced some safety procedures and worked through dissecting a fetal pig. I think this would be useful as the last time I visited Kauffman labs they spoke to us about how they dissect mice brains and we even got the opportunity to use some of their equipment.
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