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This is not a DRILL! This week I will be with the marketing department again. It’s my fourth week at Gambrill but my third week with marketing.
I actually enjoy it far more than I expected, but it looks like I won’t be spending time with finance. No loss there (sorry, people who love finance) but I would’ve tried to get out of that anyway. I would much rather be helpful, and I don’t much enjoy working with numbers!
I spent the day at Crisis Nursery North-where I’ll spend this week. I did a short orientation then spent the day playing with the kids. The nursery usually has about 10 kids, ages birth-12.
Tomorrow morning I have an over-the-phone interview with a photographer friend of Elder’s. I’m a little nervous, but I wrote down a lot of prompts just in case, and that helped a little.
Thursday I’ll be on my way to Houston to spend the week with my aunt. Her family is from Mexico, and they speak fluent Spanish, so until next Wednesday my main focus will be language immersion.
I scheduled another STL photoshoot day for a few days after I get back, and will continue trying to schedule more. Until then I’m reading up on STL and talking to people who know more historical/cultural stuff about it in order to figure out the best way to go about representing it thru photography.
There are two different kinds of work that I did last week, creating the Calculus curriculum and helping Dr. Urbano. I used the program that I talked about in the previous post to create a fair amount of homework problems for limit, differentiation and integration. I separated them from level one problems to level three problems.
Two main things that I helped Dr. with were assisting his Math class and overwatch chicken middle kiddos.
Hope whoever will join Calculus next year will enjoy the homework that I created for your guys!
I drove back to St. Louis on Friday evening, but after an appointment I’ll be headed back to Louisville. Everything is right on schedule for this part of my project!
So after a lot of research, it looks like the best platform for sharing photos (for free) is Instagram. As you guys know, I conveniently have a few logins already at my disposal, so I converted one of them to use with this project. (See, I knew I had those for a reason.)
It’s @canoncandor if you’d like to follow!
This week has been incredibly busy, but I love it! I have been working all week on my spreadsheet. First, I enter the residents last name, first name, and room number. Then I enter the floor number, their main phone number, and their secondary phone number.
After I have all of that information set up, I can go through the key check-out cards. The cards provide Gambrill with a record of which (and how many) apartment keys, outside keys, and mailbox keys each resident owns… the only problem was the number of cards that began to take up space.
There were over 400 cards when I started, and now I am down to a little over 300. There were old cards from residents who died or who no longer live here, so I threw all of those away.
Then, with the current cards, I can enter the date the keys were attained by the resident and each key’s number. This is the longest part of the process. I am going through all of them alphabetically by the last name, and I am currently on “M” now.
I’m hoping I can show off the spreadsheet somehow either on here or during my presentation! I would just have to cover or change the resident’s names.
Today, I’m doing mainly the same thing as yesterday. I’m making an imagination board for a client wanting interior design for his computer company-Elekta. I’m going to a meeting today with everyone about ‘Designing for Happiness.’ I’m not sure what that means yet but I’ll find out.
Yesterday, I watched a few toddlers for a couple hours; after two weeks, we’re practically bffs. We also finished sorting donations and taking inventory.
Today, Angela (the volunteer coordinator) took me to their location in South City. We got a tour of the facility and chatted a lot on the ride; she’s twenty-seven so we get a long pretty well.
Tomorrow is my last day here!
Tuesday- I mostly sat in meetings all day, which were interesting. Most were meetings with maybe clients. Pretty quiet day. I also tried designing part of the Verve building, but it wasn’t approved.
Yesterday-The first half of the day I spent with a guy in the office named Dan. He showed me his designs for the Ameren headquarters cafeteria. It was 110 pages. The rest of the day, I spent in a meeting with a woman showing new carpet samples to the interior designers.
Today-I got my own desk today, and was asked to make an interior design folder with ideas of things millennials would like in an office. They’re designing the interior of a computer company, mostly made up of younger people, so they wanted the inside to reflect that and make it comfortable with nap pods and bean bags, a gym and a video game room.