Wednesday, 5 March 2008

5th March: Internship (2nd lecture at Unitec)

We talked about journals today and it’s okay for me to continue this blog as my journal. So this is good. One thing I need to be aware of, however, is that because the journal is public, I might not be as forthcoming in writing about specific people and events – in case it offends people or causes arguments. Because I’m aware of this problem, I might not write “just whatever comes to mind” and go through more a screening process before publishing posts. I’ll take a look through the blogging settings, because I think you can make some posts private, only available to certain people.

My philosophy in life is to remain as open and transparent as possible. I don’t like to have secrets. So I don’t actually think that blogging will be a problem, if there’s an issue that’s on my mind, I probably would have told the affected people anyway. Unless they are particularly worried about the event being written about publicly, I don’t see any problem publishing my thoughts on the Internet.

In class we talked about “Keeping a journal will help me to …” and these are the answers we came up with:

  • Record ideas & information from meetings
  • Provide a place to reflect on personal ideas, emotions and thoughts
  • Record what people have said, times and dates of events
  • Journals will be interesting to look back on at a later date
  • Organise thoughts
  • Store information that might not be relevant now, but could be in the future
  • Show others the amount of effort that has been put into the project “behind the scenes”

Some of the others in the class have been doing well getting internships, Liz is working at Juice TV on the NZ music month campaign, Hayley is working at Draft FCB, Sheena is working for the Comedy Festival.

Coming up we have:

19th March – Careers and Employment Centre visit
16th April – Tim Marshal

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