Week 11

My eleventh week working at the Bureau of Economic Analysis was taxing. I came in Monday to find that Laura did not complete any work last week. She did not even touch the Training map. I was livid. I could not believe that anyone would disrespect his or her partner in such a way. When I explained my frustration to Laura, she brushed it off. She said that she would get around to the map sometime later this week. I gave her the opportunity to begin working on Tuesday morning. She never took it. By Tuesday afternoon, I found that I was doing her work by myself. I spent the remainder of the week completing Laura’s work, which I found to be very disrespectful.
After completing the map on Thursday, I started to put together my fall schedule. It is looking like I will work three days a week rather than five. Meridel’s acceptance of that news lifted my spirits and made this a better week for me

Week 10

My tenth week working at the Bureau of Economic Analysis showed me what my future at the organization would look like. The only work that I had left to do was to complete and correct the process maps for Travel and Training. Laura and I decided to split this task between the two of us. Laura said that she would start making revisions to the Training Process while I mapped Travel. I spent the rest of the week creating the Travel map, guide, and overview by myself. There were two major breaks that took me away from my work. First, you popped up to my office to pay everyone a visit, which we all appreciated. Second, Brian hosted an ice cream social for all of the interns in the BEA. Brian brought ice cream cake as well as two buckets of vanilla ice cream. The ice cream social was a major success, giving me the opportunity to talk to my fellow interns from the other departments. Unfortunately, this was the last week for most of the interns before they left the District to start school in the Fall. After I returned from the social, I put the finishing touches on the Travel process map and its respective guide and overview.