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of the events that planned for this year’s incoming freshmen. So every year the
freshmen get together and get to go bowling.
It has been the same thing for many years In the College of Public
Service and Community Solutions. And it wasn’t any different this time either. Unfortunately
my intern supervisor didn’t want to shake things up and go somewhere new. So if
the place was already preset in stone I wanted to shake it up any way I could.
So I picked the date and time, the food, everything else but the location. Luckily the menu changed from the year before so
it was easy to convince my boss why I had to change things. I loved planning
this event but it proved to be a bit difficult.
My
supervisor wasn’t really ever in the office because she was in charge of a
summer program our college was hosting. This seemed to be the hardest part of
planning the event considering I needed her approval for pretty much
everything. It was her business card that had to pay for everything so even if
I had everything ready to go she had to pay for it. I loved the freedom to do
pretty much what I wanted, it sucked when it came time for her approval. It was
hard to get a hold of her, and get her signature on anything so it made things
get pushed off to the very last minute.
However
even though there were some hiccups with this event, I was unable to make it to
it because I got sick the night before, but everyone told me it was a blast and
the food choices were great! To me that was a job well done for me!
Hi Tammy,
ReplyDeleteI’m sorry you ended up missing the event you planned but glad it sounds like everyone had a good time. It’s challenging planning something to begin with but having logistical issues around approvals and payment are challenging. If you had to do it again are there any potential solutions you think may have made the finial approval process time decrease? I could see maybe having a weekly meeting where you provide your supervisor an update verbally and in writing that result in a finial decision being made and payment arrangements get set. You made it through and it sounds like even with the challenges you enjoyed the process and the event was a success. Well done.