Undergraduate Blog / Author: Joana Wanderley

Final Product

I came into my internship sort of unsure of what to expect and what I would be doing… At first, I was doing a little bit of everything I guess. My boss is those kinds of leaders that give you the final goal and says “alright… go do it”. I felt very lost in the…

The surprise I had when I came to California…

When I arrived in Palo Alto for my internship, the first “assignment” I had was to go to a lecture that my boss was giving in Stanford. It was a lecture, which I have listened to many more times now, but that always “sticks” with me. He showed statistics of the Latino presence in the…

How to overcome the “intern” label

Having internships during college is a great opportunity to learn and to start testing the waters before you go out in the real world. There are all kinds of internships, and each company treats their intern differently. But sometimes, we get stuck being labeled only as the “intern” and our opinion or work is not…