[humanser] Internships?

Christina Moore christina.moore16 at houghton.edu
Sat Sep 5 12:17:22 UTC 2015


Hi Everyone,

I hope you are all doing well on this lovely Saturday morning. :)
I am unsure if I introduced myself here so here goes before I get into the main topic of this post.
My name is Christina and I am a senior at a small christian liberal arts college in NY. I am majoring in Psychology with a track in pre-therapy, I have a minor in communications completed and am looking to add a minor in Data Science so long as the courses I have taken that would fulfill that requirement would be able to even though they were for my major/general credit. Some of you may have met me at NFB during the Human Services devision meeting (which was quite a wonderful experience).

Now, to the main topic of this post:
Since I am a senior, part of my graduation requirements are to do an internship either during the semester or during a summer for credit. I am wondering if anyone here could share there experiences with me about how they found internships, contacted the organizations, responses to having a visual disability and any other information you may find useful/are willing to share would be great.
I am looking into an opportunity currently that would be in a girl’s home so if anyone has experience with that sort of environment that would be great. The staff at the organization have received my application (allowing me to submit it electronically instead of the standard snail mail), letters from my references, interviewed me (a short interview asking me why I am interested in the position Etc.) and I am planning to schedule for the more comprehensive interview next week. If I make it past the comprehensive interview, I will then visit their location and see what the home is like, interact with residents and staff and a final decision will be made after a couple of days.
I am sorry for the length of this post but I wanted to give as much explanation as possible so that all of you could better understand my question.
Thanks for reading and responding.
Christina



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