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Entry 7.

Last week Friday (10th August) was exciting we got to present all of the projects we did over our summer internship. Even our work experience coordinator came to see our amazing projects that we have accomplished. I was so proud of everyone, including myself.

Though my internship is coming to an end, it is a bittersweet moment because we all got so accustom into our positions and now we have to leave. I have met wonderful people and made a couple friends. My supervisors were amazing and I am glad that we got a chance to prove to them that they need information designers like us to make information clearer and better understood in the workplace. 

If I were to ask myself, 'What did I learn?', my answer would be this. If we went back to school projects and assignment, we all have a laid back attitude about the work that we do. But once we are in the workplace and are accountable to the organization or a client, we take things a little bit more seriously. Our pride is on the line to produce something that is functional, beautiful and delivered on time.

I have also learned that I am very organized, I am able to think critically, problem solve and have developed active listening skills. I think it is amazing especially since I noticed these qualities.

Thinking back on the many projects I have completed:

• Designed an iPad/Iphone app
• Infographics from content expert material
• Created an iBook
• Designed loading page for the Atlas app
• Designed a couple icons 

I have surprised myself and I have more confidence in my abilities to produce awesome work. I will miss this job, it was the ideal job to gain experience in different areas.

Thanks to: 
Mount Royal University, my supervisors for overseeing my internship and to everyone out there that believed in me. It was a pleasure to work with Katrina and Al, I will surely miss our family breakfast.

This is Lyndelle Gonzalez signing out.

Bye!!

Entry 6.

Right at this point the internship is truly giving me a taste of the real working world. Innovative ideas that come to my mind quickly are now taking its' time to materialize. With that said, I am referring to icon design. I don't think anyone knows how difficult it is to come up with an icon that works and not only works but is in agreement by the entire team. During the icon design, I had to shift my focus to the schematics project that had me reformatting more than 50 something slides for The Calgary Guide project a medical study guide, so that it is easy for medical students to follow and understand.

We were allowed to experience a viewing of cadaver, Al one of our co-workers had to see a cadaver for his iBooks project and we were given the option or opportunity to join him, of course we said, 'Yes!' We were all skeptical about how we would feel, we even had a bet going on, 'Whoever lasted the longest in the lab would get a free lunch'. As our supervisor was taking out the body, she informed us that the cadavers' face is covered so that medical students could have a better time dealing with a dead body in front of them. Funny as the body laid in front of us, I forgot that is was a corpse. She also said, they only take healthy bodies but sometimes they come across a body with an unknown brain tumor or enlarged organ. The cadavers in the lab all have a different purpose, so they are cut for certain parts or organs to be shown during the lab lessons among students. We were allowed to poke around, squeeze and lift organs, the human lung amazed me, its a fragile organ it felt like a crumpled old clear plastic bag. And the smell of formaldehyde is forever stained in my nose. 

We all stuck through it in the lab and no one was bought lunch.

This is an experience I will never forget.