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Final Day/Reflection

I finished my mirrored op sketches. I polished and styled my excel dashboard. It was not a very eventful day. It was mostly goodbyes and thank yous. I was happy that it was thank yous coming from my co-workers as well as myself. I felt like I did good work. I think the biggest thing I learned from this experience was that I am already very prepared to be an engineer.

I learned a lot and it is hard to reflect on it all at once, but I'll try. I was already confident in my social skills and that they would help me in engineering. This internship helped solidify that confidence. I made friends and the managers and higher ups socialized with me more than some employees that had been there for a long time. I expected to be mostly on the sidelines and hidden away but I got to know a lot of different people and that definitely set me apart.

I didn't think this internship would make me want to do engineering any less; I did not expect it to make me want to go into engineering so much more. I enjoy working with people, figuring out problems of all kinds, and also large machinery. This is the field for me and I'm very excited to continue having experiences like this one.

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