This summer I am interning with Elanco Animal Health. My job is to work with a field representative of Elanco and his veterinary hospitals to complete a project based on communication methods to the end-users of our product. It's a mouthful, I know.
Here are some of the highlights of my internship so far:
- I frequently take Pretzel (my dog) to veterinarian clinics that I visit. Considering that she thinks she is a person, she does very well with the veterinarians and staff that I talk too.
- Yesterday I went to my first trade show at the veterinary conference. Prior to setting up the booth, I surveyed a few veterinarians on their favorite types of chocolate. As it turns out, Kit-Kats, Twix, Reeses does the trick. Those things were gobbled up in no time.
-I honestly cannot brag on my Elanco co-workers enough. They have been so kind to teach me, put up with me, and become my friends.
- I travel a lot. So far I have been to Indianapolis, all over Virginia, and all over North Carolina. Don't get me wrong, I do love Clemson, but I've gotta spread the Clemson love elsewhere! I run into Clemson Alum everywhere I go.
- I LOVE living in Virginia. I will always be proud of South Carolina but man, Virginia is AWESOME! Every where you turn in Virginia, history comes alive. Before coming here, I was a little confused on whether Virginians were really true southerners or not so I decided to ask someone at http://hopecentral.com/ church one Sunday. I must've phrased the question wrong because the 4 foot 11 inch woman leaped up and exclaim, "we are DIE hard southerners, we live and breathe our southern heritage as the capital of the confederacy (I was in Richmond) and the place where the more civil war battles were fought than anywhere else in the nation".
-Confession: my love for history may be the nerdiest, most eccentric part about me. One of my favorite places so far was the Virginia Historical Society (VHS). This was a pretty big deal to me because I have been listening to their podcasts on American history for a few years now. I find them fascinating because the podcasts are filled with juicy and interesting details about history that my school textbooks conveniently decided to leave out. Imagine that.
While visiting the Virginia Historical Society, I was delighted to find out that they were having a book sale. The day I happened to visit the VHS also happened to be Father's day. Thus, I was feeling a little guilty about not driving back to SC to be with my dad. So I thought to myself, "I'll buy him a book and it will make up for me not being there". Two hours and sixteen books later, I emerged from the VHS with a smile and giant box of books for my dad annnnnd myself.
I am going to read every one of them.
Okay now for the negative.
Every once and a while I am filled with sadness because I have not been able to see some special people in my life in a while. I can't wait for our reunion and FOOTBALL(aka tailgating) season this fall!
