I've done two internships before this one; one was with the Sustainable Business Institute and the other was with the Student Environmental Center. In each of these, there have been times where they didn't live up to what I wanted, or it didn't feel like it was pointing me in the direction I wanted to go. Today was one of those days. There wasn't really much for me to do so Rich had me read a bunch of publications the NRCS and the Resource Conservation District had written. It was truly amazing how widespread they really are. They had things about how to protect your home from runoff, fire, how to protect from invasive plants, private road maintenance. The best part was that each of these writings were simple manuals for someone to follow with absolutely no background in environmental studies.
As thrilling as these were, I was doing an internship for the experience and the learning through doing process. Since they were under a deadline and I don't have enough experience to help with what they needed, I went home early. I was slightly disappointed, mostly because I felt like I had wasted the day, but in reality I had learned a lot. I need to be educated about what both the NRCS and the RCD does since I am representing them. It is also better to have a wide variety of knowledge, because I never know if I am going to be working on these projects at some point!
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