Internship Thoughts 2.5

The first really large event during my internship was coming up in a week, and I was starting to stuff packets, stuff badges and all of those wonderful pre conference activities. Grooving along in my rut of mindless activities I was surprised when the planner in charge of the conference prairie-dogged into my view.

"Come with me" she said, smiling.

We went off to the department meeting room and were soon joined by the program manager and executive director. It was a pre-conference agenda meeting! We looked at a one page version of the agenda and reviewed pre-conference, conference and post-conference duties.

It was an interesting internal view of how the planner and program manager work together. The inclusion of the executive director was a reminder of the importance of the event. For me, it was a little surreal. I had no real input to add to the conversation, but it was critical I knew when to be where. I felt out of place partly because it had been sprung on me.

After it was over, I returned to my busywork, eventually stuffing packets including the approved agenda. It wasn't until the next week that we learned that the mini-agenda had misprinted information on it. We attempted to correct that with a new agenda passed out at check-in.