Midpoint Reflection Questions

How has the internship been the same as and/or different than your expectations?
My intership is a lot diffrent then my expectations. Because i thought it will be so hard and ill have to do so many things. but i was wrong its a lot easier then i thought i guess because i keep moving
, i get to relax from time to time.

What is similar and different about the culture of the school environment versus the workplace environment? What new skills have you learned that apply to the workplace?
well im talking to a lot of patients, i get to know new people and i try to be nice with everybody. even if sometimes they not nice to me. just like in school wen a
teacher is not nice to me i keep n trying to be nice to him.

What kind of relationship do you have with your mentor and co-workers? How have you grown as a result of interacting with professional adults?
well my relationship with my co=workers is perfect. i like them and they like me. i dont have any arguments with them and i am having fun with them. their funny and very understanding. and its fun seing how it works in the proffesional job, because i usually worked in jobs like bustboy and stuff like that so now that i see how it works as physical therepist its alot more fun. people are nicer and you get to help people.

What challenges at the internship have you faced that you have overcome and how did you overcome them?
i had only one challenge, and it was remembering whats where and who works where. because at first it was hard for me to remember whats a lumbar pack. so when the therepist was telling me bring me a lumbar pack i was like what which one. and now i bring as soon as he tells me to.

What challenges have you faced in school as a result of the altered schedule and how are you handling them?
well it got harder for me. my grades got lower by a lot. because now after intership i come home i have to go to my SAT prep and then i get home im so tired that i dont have energy to do anything. so then i start failing classes. so after intership im tired and dont have energy for nothing.

What goals are you working to accomplish during the remainder of the internship?
im hoping to see if this type of thing is for me. i mean physical therepy. because i really want to see if its for me. but so long i like it, but i dont know if its something that i would love to do for a living.

What new things have you learned about New York City?
thats it takes a lot of time to get to my intership and back home.