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Wei Jing Saw

Is your attitude helping or hurting your internship?

TKA intern Wei Jing Saw explains how checking your attitude about internships prepares you for success

Being the only intern at my site who is here four days a week (the other five only come in once or twice a week at the most), I get to see most of the intern-supervisor interactions that occur and have, in the back of my mind, compiled a “what not to do at your internship/job” list, which of course, will prove very beneficial both in the short and long run.

Do whatever your supervisor tells you to do
– Put yourself in their shoes. What the heck do you think their impression of you is if the “super-subordinate” (remember, there is nobody lower than you in the pecking order if you are an intern and very few if you’ve just started at an entry-level job) questions every task they are given? If supervisors had time, or could be bothered to do it themselves, they wouldn’t be hiring interns to call up companies to source some really obscure doodad. What you should do is to look at it as practice for interacting with people on a more formal level. Nobody is ever “comfortable” calling up strangers.

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The early bird…

Student Wei Jing Saw shares what worked for her in getting an internship.

In regards to advice for future students, start your internship search early if you want to get a good one. I put feelers out in a casual search last May for an internship this spring, sending out an inquiry to my top-choice internship. All I had wanted to know was what the procedure was in applying to this particular company but got back an email asking me to send in my résumé and cover letter. That’s where I thought it would end as it was so far in advance, but not a week later, I was in there for an interview from which I left with a “see you in January!” from my future supervisor. It really alleviated a lot of stress that I imagine a lot of students feel because I secured an internship almost a year in advance!

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Postcard: Professor Wendy Rolfe on the National Flute Association Convention

Wendy Rolfe, D.M.A., Professor, Woodwind Department, sent in a dispatch from the site of a world record effort you may never have imagined. —Magen

Some of the 1989 flutist in the Worlds Largest Flute Ensemble.

Some of the 1989 flutists in the World's Largest Flute Ensemble.

On August 14, 2009, Berklee flutists contributed to setting the new world record for “The World’s Largest Flute Ensemble” – 1989 flutists from all over the world performing together at the National Flute Association Convention in New York City. Conducted by Sir James Galway, Berklee student Jacquelynn Ware and I played a specially composed medley with 1987 other flutists in the ballroom at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in a successful attempt to break the previous Chinese-held world record.

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