Friday 18th Feb-Day 30

Spent the last day of my internship filling out a self-evaluation form for their department and also just spending time finishing off my c.v for minor changes, sending Digby my cv for future preference, fixing up loose ends and preping any work for TVU next week.

Thr 17th Feb-Day 29

I spent the day browsing and familarising myself with new software that I will need to use for any future jobs in web design, Digby was ok with this as this was coming towards the end of the internship and there wasn't any point in starting new projects. I looked into adobe products such as flex, indesign and also illustrator. I managed to easily get my head round the indesign and illustrator but the flex was still a bit difficult, at the end of the day I will look further into once my internship finishes.

Wed 16th Feb-Day 28

Towards the end of this internship, I have started to lose motivation due to the fact i've lost the reason to work as i've got nothing to work for. But I still decided to carry on, I decided to give the flash website another go and worked out that looking a little closer at the coding that the website had been carried out in a different software all together. The software used to make the website was adobe flex, a software which I had never heard of before but I took a look at it and was surprised at what I found, I read a bit into and it is a basic of XHTML and actionscript 3.0 put together and it already looks like an interesting piece of software that I will defo look into more. But for the time being I am going to focus on creating this website and will hopefully have a piece to add to my portfolio and leave my mark on when I worked here. Problem is I now only have 2 days to understand the software, understand how it was made and then make it.

Tue 15th Feb-Day 27

Today I was to have a mock interview with our senior manager rachel, it was nice to have a interview done by her as she has loads of experience in dealing with interviews and has been through several in the past on both sides of the table.
I decided to go 2nd this time and based on what I learnt from TVU and Digby I felt I did really well and had a good chance if the interview was real, based on feedback my judgement was perfect, I gave a near perfect answer for 5 of 6 questions, with one about databasing (lack of knowledge) but apart from that she felt I did well.
She gave me tips for the future just in case such as the first 10 seconds as you walk in the room and eye contact will make or break the interview, in the past I always make sure of eye contact, it shows confidence.
This was it for the day really, lack of computers so I struggled to carry on with any work.

Mon 14th Feb-Day 26

Spent the majoirty of the day carrying on with the diabetes project and trying to find more images to use to no prevail, very difficult to find images that can be used for commercial use, was only able to find picasi which is a image website through google that have decent images. I also managed to find a way or downloading our presentations off prezi which is brillant and now due to this I will be using prezi as often as possible in the future.

Fri 11th Feb-Day 25

Today Digby gave me a mock interview to see how I did and also at the same time he went through my CV to see where changes could be made and what I could add in for this current job. I found both parts of this very helpful.
We firstly went through my CV, i discussed with him what people look for on a CV and also he mentioned the 40 of 40 CV (your cv is bottom of the pile and its friday at 5pm and the person looking at your cv justs wants to go home) Digby was telling me the CV has to be brillant and explained to me where I was going wrong.
After lunch we then did a mock interview with a job spec for what the interview was for. As there was another intern with me we decided to be in each other's interview and gives 3 questions to the other person, so for example in my interview I would have Digby interviewing me as well as the other intern who chose 3 questions for me. I went first up.
I am usually confident in interviews and I hope I usually come across like that. I felt the interview went well. On feedback I gave strong answers and came across confidently and a good team player which is what I like to think of myself as.
I felt overall this was a strong day, it is brillant to get an inside track of how to conduct yourself in interviews and also how to present your CV, in the past I have been confident as long as my CV gets me the interview I can then sell myself well, my achilles heel in the past has been my CV but now I feel confident that will help me get through the door.

Thr 10th Feb-Day 24

Started today by finishing off the learning exhibition report as for a couple of hours in the morning the network was down. Once the network was fixed and the report was done, I started a new project which was handed to me which involved trying to find diabetes photos online for commerical use (so photos which weren't copyright etc.) it was very difficult for 2 main reasons, the majority of photos online are copyright on websites which are associated with diabetes, when I do find a website with photo share, the LAN has blocked it on safety concerns so once again was hitting my head against a brick wall. Managed to find a couple in the end thou and will continue on with this tomorrow.

Wed 9th Feb-Day 23

Couldn't do much today as there wasn't enough computers to go round per person

Tue 8th Feb-Day 22

Had the office to myself again today so carried on with multiple projects such as the website, the write up report on the learning exhibition and also a write up on the GMP which I managed to finish.

Mon 7th Feb-Day 21

Asked for a day off today as was too ill to go in, didn't do any work.

Fri 4th Feb-day 20

Came in the morning and thought it would be one of those days where we would have to share one computer again but after a meeting with digby, he handed me a new project to do some extensive research into GMP, more research but at least it gave me a chance to be actually doing something now, a few computers were freed up as well so manage to find a spare room and get to work on researching GMP courses. I pretty much spent the rest of the day doing that.

Thr 3rd Feb-day 19

Came into work felt weird when you take a day off during the week! Helped gerald with the project brief and the more we worked on it the more we realised how much goes into the background of a project and hopefully this part of the experience will be worth it once we have to start getting out and looking for jobs again.
As for the web design, haven't heard back from anyone in our department about helping them. Quite annoyed but as an intern I can't expect to handle major projects.

Wed 2nd Feb-day 18

Decided to stay home and work today to try and work out the project I was working on! Spent all day on it and no luck

Tue 1st Feb-Day 17

After yesterday, I was hoping to get a chance to use the computer to carry on with my projects but that hasn't turned out to be the case, he is continually insisting that he must carry on with his work, I ask if there are any spare places to work and usually in this scenario we have borrowed a laptop to use in last 3 weeks but this has now been lost aparently. So I must now spend another day on the sidelines doing nothing.

Mon 31st Jan-Day 16

We were now in the 2nd half of our internship. I was hoping things would get better but it has turned out to be the opposite. Due to a new staff member joining, I have to now work with the intern in the same room. This I feel is mostly a bad thing, we both have projects we need to get on with and yet there in only one computer, so one of us can work while the other has to sit there and entertain himself. This is going to be a frustrating week I can tell already. I spent the whole day doing nothing.