Growing up, summers always seemed to be the time for sleeping in and relaxing. However, summers during college become a time for internships and jobs that can benefit students’ futures.<\/p>\n
This summer, several Harding students had internships and jobs that took them all over the country and gave them new experiences.<\/p>\n
Katie Lake, a senior accounting major, spent her summer as a logistics finance intern for Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. Based out of Bentonville, Ark., Lake and 270 other interns worked on individual projects throughout the course of the internship.<\/p>\n
Lake’s personal project was focused on finding the distribution centers’ correct service charges for stores; a task she says helped her develop skills in her major.<\/p>\n
When the interns were not working on personal projects, they had finance Q&A sessions and listened to executive speakers from the company. Lake said her favorite part of the experience was seeing how Fortune 500’s top company worked.<\/p>\n
“Seeing how that operates and knowing that everything you do is on a huge scale, even though you feel really small, everything you do affects someone else within this huge organization,” Lake said.<\/p>\n
Senior psychology major Fabian Ruiz has worked for the National Parks Service of Little Rock, Ark., for the past four years. This summer, he worked as a tour guide in Little Rock Central High School discussing the \u2018Little Rock Nine,’ the group of African-American students who first integrated the high school in the 1950s.<\/p>\n
Ruiz gave four to five tours a week. He said the most challenging parts of the job were dealing with the sensitive nature of the subject and translating everything into English, his third language.<\/p>\n
Even though the job was more focused on history, Ruiz said he learned a lot about his major in the process. He had to deal with all kinds of reactions and points of views on the subject matter. <\/p>\n
“The most amazing thing is that you don’t know who’s going to come in so you get to deal with all kinds of people,” Ruiz said.<\/p>\n
Senior Emily Lincoln, a communication sciences and disorders major, spent her summer in Portage, Alaska, at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center.<\/p>\n
She found the job as a gift shop clerk and snack bar cook on www.CoolJobs.com. Employees for the conservation center were required to work 40 hours a week. When they were not working, employees and interns went on group excursions such as day cruises to whale watch or to feed baby animals.<\/p>\n
Lincoln said the most valuable skill she learned was adapting to the customs of the tourists who would come into the gift shop.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
“I’ll probably end up back in Alaska,” Lincoln said.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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