Thank You - CEMHS

Everyone at CEMHS;

Thank you all so much for allowing me the opportunity to intern with you this semester at the Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security at ASU. The amount of knowledge you have, and your willingness to share it with me and guide me on my journey is much appreciated. I am so thankful for your willingness to get me involved with as much as you could and help provide me as many tools and resources as you could for me to be successful. In addition to your knowledge within the field, I also thank you for the life lessons that you have helped to provide in such a short period of time. I do not think my words can convey my sincerest gratitude for all of the knowledge and information you have passed on to me, but I thank you all so much.

Devinn

Reflection on Goals

Looking back at my first blog post, I had three goals:
1. Begin to understand the life of a professional
2. Network within my field
3. Gain a better understanding of Emergency Management and Homeland Security

I think I would have to say that I met every goal I set out to achieve through my internship this semester. I had the opportunity to sit in on meetings and work on projects in a professional environment that really helped me understand what it means to join the “working world”. Sitting in on the various meetings and working on various projects throughout the semester, I had the opportunity to meet and connect with various people of different groups and backgrounds and got to experience how they fit into the EM/HS structure. Overall, I got to more fully explore the EM/HS field and apply my coursework (both past and current) to my internship, and vice versa. Being able to make the connections between the classroom and the professional world was extremely beneficial and really help me correlate and organize my thoughts.

I learned what it meant to join the professional world and began to get a better understanding of how this operates vs the classroom environment. While there are many similarities between the two, it is definitely very different and being able to compare and contrast them and have separate mindsets for each environment was something I focused on this semester.