Still going strong...

I cannot believe that it is almost July. The summer is going by so fast. My internship is about half over, yet I feel like I just got here. Although despite how fast it has gone by, I am still incredibly blessed to be working here and learning from these people. I love being able to collaborate with people from all over America, and in all sorts of capacities. Just last week I helped out the news department with some transcription of an interview Jewel did for Shape magazine. It was neat to step outside what I normally do and work on something else, even just for a few hours. I had to watch the entire interview and mark the timecode of where each segment of the interview started and stopped. Then once that was complete, I went back and watched it again so that I could transcribe the interview. It was a 25 minute interview and took me about 2 hours to transcribe the whole thing, but it was a cool experience. I don't know if that is something I would want to do a lot (as it is tiring after awhile), but it was still a good learning experience.
Another benefit of my job this summer is that I have really beefed up my researching skills. As the majority of my job is researching the artists on the countdown, I have become increasing better at identifying what is valuable information and what is not. I have also become better at skimming articles and such to find the most interesting piece of information. As the writers only write small little snippets about the artists for the show I need to get them interesting and concise information. I know that the skills I have been utilizing this summer and have been improving upon will really help when I go back to school and have to write a research paper.