This internship has not affected my career path too much. I still do not know what I want to do for a major and a career. I want to explore more in software engineering and computer programming. Watching my mentor, I realized I want to have my own business. I don't want to have to work for someone else, but I would rather make the decisions and be the leader in the company. I hope to continue working here during the summer and gain more experience. That way I can implement all the information I learned into the clients' websites. The environment is one of the best parts of this internship. It is pretty relaxed, and all the other workers are very inviting. It has made the experience better and helped me realize that I want to work in an environment like this. Here, people are helping each other instead of competing for a higher position which is really nice. I am not sure what I want to do for my next internship in senior year. I might try a different internship just to expand my thinking and explore a different field or company. The internship has not changed my plans for college. I am still going to apply to the same schools as I was before this internship. It has kept me on the same path as I am now.
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Part 1) Photo Essay Part 2). My Internship Project My internship project was doing SEO, specifically the research side of it. I didn't create a product, because I was gathering information instead of building something. I learned a lot in my project, but that isn't something I can show here. The steps I took to complete my project was a lot of reading. I read a lot of articles that my mentor gave me about SEO and different types of it, like SEO audits. I also used tools, such as SEMrush, to look at competitors' sites and analyze how they were ranking higher and how we could use it for our sites. I took notes on everything I read, then used those notes to compile a list of the best keywords to use on the websites. My project was important because I learned how to do SEO for any field. I specialized in physical therapy so I know what keywords and other information are best specifically for this field. Since I am working here during the summer, I will take all these skills and information and implement it on the websites then. I did all the hard part now, so I can use that in the future. I hope to do more of the software engineering part, by coding the information I have been researching into the websites. |