10 Days of Advice–Day 2
10 Days of Advice–Day 1
Welcome to the LHSI Blog!
We are celebrating 10 years of LHSI. Scroll down to see what current interns, alumni, staff, and mentors want you to know about the program. We’ll be posting about significant dates in LHSI history, tips from people who have been out of the program for many years, secrets behind our success and so much more. Follow us on social media for updates!
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4 Reasons Why LHSI Wants You to Blog This Year
- It is our ten-year anniversary! Help us promote what great work you have been doing at your internship sites by making your experience more accessible.
- Reflection is a continuous process. LHSI utilizes the ePDP for reflection, but most interns put it off until the end of the semester. A blog can be a weekly opportunity for you to reflect on the small victories and challenges you will probably forget if you try to reflect on them weeks later. Think of your ePDP as a cumulating project and the blog as a weekly lab notebook.
- We want to get to know you. It is hard to meet all 75 interns regularly and hear about your experiences. The LHSI staff loves reading about you in the ePDPs, but doing a weekly or even monthly blog will help us get to know you even better and in a tone that is more conversational than a reflective portfolio or an academic research poster.
- You could win great prizes! In an effort to increase student engagement in this interactive new platform, we will be posting some students’ blogs to our website. The best bloggers will receive prizes for most regularly posting updates, best quality posts, most creative posts, etc.
What Mentors Want New Interns to Know
Don’t be afraid to ask questions! Always, always, always ask questions and enjoy yourself! It’s okay to not know things as you’re still learning.
Take advantage of everything you can–ask if there is something you want to do that you are not. Express your interests! Don’t be afraid to speak up on what YOU want from this!
Follow directions! Write it down! Remain focused. Be interested!
If you mess up, admit it. Everyone makes mistakes. A concealed mistake is far more damaging than one that has been revealed.
Work hard and be a team player.
Be curious and self-motivated.
Communicate! Let us know how everything is going.
It is what YOU make it! Bad, Good, or Great!