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Post #10

Date: August 21st Activities: Updating labels, organizing website, designing invoice Technical Information: Microsoft Word, weebly Reflection: Today I continued on the same everyday tasks: updating the website, calendar, labels, etc. I also began a new task of designing an invoice that Sweet Peak would send to customers after they place an order. The setup of an invoice is pretty easy, word has a lot of templates for one. The most difficult part was finding a template that fit with the theme of her bakery and one that she approved of, that fit well with her logo as well.  Write a final reflection of the entire internship experience. Overall, my internship experience as a whole was a good one. I had a lot of fun working with Ms. Gage in a relaxed environment, with an overall relaxed work experience and schedule. I believe that my internship experience was a lot different than that of my peers, but in a good way, I wouldn't want to redo it in any way. I did have to make up so...
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Post #9

Date: August 17th Activities: Updating website, Food Lion run Technical Information: Weebly Reflection: Today I continued the same projects, updating weebly, organizing labels, and updating the data base. I also had the fun experience of running to the local grocery store which happened to be a Food Lion. I had to buy two dozen eggs and two bags of flour. I think the most stressful part was finding the right kind of flour: there were so many different kinds! Bleached, unbleached, oat, corn, etc. But after finding the correct flour and eggs, and I returned and Ms. Gage was able to continue baking to meet her deadlines. What major problems or frustrations have you experienced or observed in your work? How did you handle it? I haven't really faced any problems throughout my internship, most of my work was pretty simple and straight forward. Since I haven't faced any problems, I haven't had to really handle any. I'd say the only "problems" I've had to ...
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Post #8

Date: August 12th Activities: Updating website, organizing labels Technical Information: Weebly, Microsoft Word Reflection: Today I continued to work on more or less the same tasks, just to try and keep everything up-to-date. I had settled into more or less a routine: logging in, adding any new customers to the data base, checking for any new holidays to add to the promotions, updating the inventory list for Brew, and going through product labels, all while sipping some coffee or sampling a blueberry muffin (to check for quality of course). I think I had become I pro at a lot of these tasks, they had become like second nature. What have you learned about yourself and what you want in a career? I've learned that I have a knack for organizing things, especially making things fit well and look appealing together (such as organizing her website). I haven't learned much about what I want in a career, since I'm not looking to go into a technology field, and this internshi...
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Post #7

Date: August 9th Activities: Organizing labels, updating website Technical Information: Weebly, Microsoft Word Reflection: Today I continued the fun tasks of printing, organizing and filing labels. This was a necessary task in order to be prepared for the weekly orders from Brew and the farmers markets in Cary and Holly Springs. After organizing labels, I updated the the inventory lists for both the Cary and Raleigh locations of Brew. I also continued to update the website and organize pictures and resize text, as well as reformatting the calendar and finding more holidays and promotions to the calendar. How has this experience affected or changed your career/college plans? My experience hasn't really affected my career or college plans. I've known that I've never really wanted to pursue a career and technology but I've appreciated the experiences and skills I've learned through AOIT and this internship, I believe that these skills will help me in college an...
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Post #6

Date: August 6th Activities: Updating calendar, making a delivery Technical Information: Google calendar, Weebly Reflection: Today I continued to research obscure baked goods holidays and adding them to the website calendar. I also continued organizing labels, and maintaining the database, and other small everyday tasks. Today I also made a delivery to Clayton, a regular costumer of hers. It was one of my more exciting days, since I got to go out and do some "physical" activity, and it was a fun hour round-trip drive (I had never been to Clayton before so it was cool to go there).  How have your duties changed since you first started? Have you been given more responsibility? Yes, my duties have changed from the mundane work of going through past costumers to maintain an up-to-date database, to more complex and fun work of updating/reorganizing the website to have a more aesthetic style, as well as updating the calendar and coming up with promotional ideas. 
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Post #5

Date: August 4th Activities: Updating website and calendar Technical Information: Weebly and Google calendar Reflection: Today I started on probably my biggest project of the internship, which was finding obscure holidays to try and put them on the calendar, like did you know that November is national peanut butter month? My job was to find these kinds of holidays to add to the Sweet Peaks calendar to promote specials, such as honey cupcakes on national honeybee day, or a free peanut butter cookie with every order in November. I coordinated between the google calendar and Weebly so that all these specials would appear on the website when customers visited to place orders. What do you feel is your main contribution to your internship? What have you done at your internship that makes you proud? Why? I feel that the calendar and updating the database were my two biggest contributions two the internship, because they were two things that hadn't been accomplished yet and they bo...
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Post #4

Date: August 2nd Activities: Organizing labels, updating website Technical Information: Microsoft Word, Weeby Reflection: Today I continued on my task of organizing, sorting, and printing labels in preparation for the next market and deliveries for Brew. Another one of my ongoing tasks was keeping track of deliveries to the Cary and downtown Raleigh locations of Brew, since Sweet Peaks is the bakery they receive their pastries from. One of new tasks that I also began was updating/organizing the website so it would have a more esthetic appeal. How is the internship meeting or not meeting your expectations/objectives and why? Do you have control of this? Explain. My internship experience was a lot different than most of my classmates, I wasn't in a traditional office environment, I wasn't clocking in and out every day, and I wasn't working a traditional 9-5 work day either. I worked in a very casual environment, but I was still able to use a lot of technical skills an...
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