I remember it like it was yesterday, it was nearing the end of 2013 semester one and everyone around me was talking about how they had already found an internship for semester two and were getting started ASAP!
My days would sort of follow a mundane routine;
After an amazing sleep I would grumpily wake up due to my alarm, that screams as though it's going into labour; I would then start battling my doona- whinging that I have to be up so early for uni and then some how get to uni on time, despite my lethargic tone all morning.
"Omg I can not wait to start my internship at the Department of Environmental Conservation" or "I'm currently interning at Shine Communications and plan to start my third internship for next semester at Liquid PR" - my friends would chant in our tute right before the tutor would start her weekly class.
When the conversation shifted in my direction, I would just shruggishly say, 'umm yeah I haven't really started looking yet'.
Of course everyone would go on to pull faces as though I was doomed. I remember my state of mind at the time wasn't right, I had just gone through a bitter break up, I was still unlicensed and was going through a lot of self hate because I really felt my life was heading no where.
Ultimately I never did search for an internship for 2013 semester two and decided I needed time to refresh and also reflect, I needed to really ponder the question- what is it I see myself doing one day?
So I started picking up more shifts at my job at the time and decided to do uni only part time. In this time I really did some soul searching and discovered I definitely want to do PR in an in-house setting and I also had the epiphany that I want to work in the non-profit sector.
Time passed and I started to regain that zest for life that I had sadly lost all of 2013, I began to really discover my identity in terms of Public relations and career.
So now lets fast forward to 2013 end and 2014 beginning- its holiday time.
I was sitting on my desk on a hot Monday morning, I remember sweating as though I had just run a marathon because the air-conditioner had broken that morning and it was the peak of summer. The resident fly in my room was evidently just as cranky about the weather as I was- he kept buzzing around my ears, almost as though he wanted me to know about his frustrations. It was time to enroll into classes and there in front of me was my good old friend - PR Internship 393.
I enrolled into this class and started applying for internships, I started off by applying to places I knew through family friends and then I went on to apply to a few places online- no luck!
The census date was nearing and I was starting to panic, my good friend Elena who is also studying PR but is in her second year of study noticed my panic and decided to help me out, she gave me a couple of websites listing non-profit organizations.
This is how I got in contact with my current supervisors and got an amazing internship for The Lions Eye Institute. Lions Eye is a not for profit organization that deals with treating patients who have any issue related to the eyes and also conducting medical research on the eye, several eye diseases and blindness. Their ultimate goal is to eradicate blindness worldwide and will stop at nothing to achieve this amazing cause! I fell in love, all that soul searching through semester two of 2013 has brought me to find such an amazing organization- COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER TIMING!
I can not wait to keep everyone posted on my internship.
Kind Regards,
Krithika Ramnarayan
(Bentley Campus )
My days would sort of follow a mundane routine;
After an amazing sleep I would grumpily wake up due to my alarm, that screams as though it's going into labour; I would then start battling my doona- whinging that I have to be up so early for uni and then some how get to uni on time, despite my lethargic tone all morning.
"Omg I can not wait to start my internship at the Department of Environmental Conservation" or "I'm currently interning at Shine Communications and plan to start my third internship for next semester at Liquid PR" - my friends would chant in our tute right before the tutor would start her weekly class.
When the conversation shifted in my direction, I would just shruggishly say, 'umm yeah I haven't really started looking yet'.
Of course everyone would go on to pull faces as though I was doomed. I remember my state of mind at the time wasn't right, I had just gone through a bitter break up, I was still unlicensed and was going through a lot of self hate because I really felt my life was heading no where.
Ultimately I never did search for an internship for 2013 semester two and decided I needed time to refresh and also reflect, I needed to really ponder the question- what is it I see myself doing one day?
So I started picking up more shifts at my job at the time and decided to do uni only part time. In this time I really did some soul searching and discovered I definitely want to do PR in an in-house setting and I also had the epiphany that I want to work in the non-profit sector.
Time passed and I started to regain that zest for life that I had sadly lost all of 2013, I began to really discover my identity in terms of Public relations and career.
So now lets fast forward to 2013 end and 2014 beginning- its holiday time.
I was sitting on my desk on a hot Monday morning, I remember sweating as though I had just run a marathon because the air-conditioner had broken that morning and it was the peak of summer. The resident fly in my room was evidently just as cranky about the weather as I was- he kept buzzing around my ears, almost as though he wanted me to know about his frustrations. It was time to enroll into classes and there in front of me was my good old friend - PR Internship 393.
I enrolled into this class and started applying for internships, I started off by applying to places I knew through family friends and then I went on to apply to a few places online- no luck!
The census date was nearing and I was starting to panic, my good friend Elena who is also studying PR but is in her second year of study noticed my panic and decided to help me out, she gave me a couple of websites listing non-profit organizations.
This is how I got in contact with my current supervisors and got an amazing internship for The Lions Eye Institute. Lions Eye is a not for profit organization that deals with treating patients who have any issue related to the eyes and also conducting medical research on the eye, several eye diseases and blindness. Their ultimate goal is to eradicate blindness worldwide and will stop at nothing to achieve this amazing cause! I fell in love, all that soul searching through semester two of 2013 has brought me to find such an amazing organization- COULDN'T HAVE BEEN BETTER TIMING!
I can not wait to keep everyone posted on my internship.
Kind Regards,
Krithika Ramnarayan
(Bentley Campus )
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