April 10, 2015

Hello Readers!
It was yet another interesting internship class. This Friday, everyone met in Frey Hall at the Testing Center. To be honest, I had no idea this place existed. But I guess to be fair, the Testing Center is fairly new and hasn’t been in operation for very long. The Testing Center is meant to provide a place for students to take an online exam for a class. However, the goal is for the center to expand and be used as a testing location for the MCAT, LSAT, and DAT. It will also be used for Stony Brook’s placement exams for incoming students. We also visited the CoLAs on the second floor and discussed whether it should have a different name because it is different that the CoLAs in the North Reading Room. I think Frey Hall has great potential to become a place where students and professors integrate technology into their class.

Jen came back this week for my shadowing hour with her on Monday. She went over workshops: the difference between public and consultant only, the process of making our workshop in terms of choosing one, scheduling them and creating our documentation. She also looked at my “How to Login to…” documentation and my Google Site for the final presentation. I hope to have the Google Site done by our next shadowing hour so she can critique it. During my site manager shadowing hours, I listened to Victoria, Aram and Celia (subbing in for Jim) and how they schedule for their SINC Site. Celia gave tasked me with creating a schedule for her SINC Site this semester. I found it pretty difficult and I’m still not sure how I would approach it if I were to become a site manager and had to do the scheduling.

This week, I also attended the SINC 102 workshop. Most of the interns were there and we were somewhat split up into different groups. Honestly, I could tell that all our shadowing hours paid off because the interns basically knew all the answers. It also made me realize that senior consultants actually do know more than a regular consultant.