By Xiaocai Lin | August 11, 2017
At the end of my internship at JVS, I secretly finished a huge project: writing six thank-you letters to my supervisors and colleagues by hand. The biggest chunk of the work is composing the contents of each letter. For each person that I wrote for, I tried to think of at least one unique shared…
By Xiaocai Lin | August 8, 2017
During my internship at the Development Department of JVS, I had been working on various projects, such as database cleanups, donation processing, and stewardship mailings. Although I tried my best to accomplish everything, I still make mistakes. There was one time that I need to mail out around 80 heavy envelopes, each contains an important…
By Xiaocai Lin | July 26, 2017
For the past two months of my internship, I have been working in cubicles in different offices every day. As an introverted person with English as my second language, I usually shy away from talking to people – and it’s part of the reason why although I choose to intern in three different programs in…
By Xiaocai Lin | July 4, 2017
The best part of my internship so far is the sense of belonging. Last week, I was asked to join a short meeting of the whole Development Department in Jewish Vocational Service, in which I am currently interning. As a memorable event during the middle of my internship, there are two highlights during this meeting…
By Xiaocai Lin | June 23, 2017
Today is just another normal day of my unpaid summer internship that started one month ago. After finishing cleaning and organizing several drawers of files, folders, tissues, paper cups, spoons, knives and forks, I went home realizing that I was wearing the exact same black suit that I wore on the third day of my…