Have you ever analysed your life and wondered what was I thinking or what have I gotten myself into!

Well that was my plight in September 2008 when I entered the level 1 Biology lab.It quickly became evident that if you weren't artistically inclined then this course was gonna give you hell! Now Savionne Gayle has never passed an art class in my short lifetime...even my kindergarten teacher complained about my colouring skills and I still can't draw a proper stickman, lol.

I decided to put my best foot forward because I don't give up easily. I was usually able to complete most of the drawings and they were recognizable depending on the demonstrator.

For the first time since writing in this blog, I think I have quite a few things to say.

While on my way home sometimes this week, I found myself reflecting on my time here at MITS, what I've learnt and what I want for myself going forward.

I first started working with MITS after making the decision to leave my previous Job writing for a Virtual Assitant company called Katroglobal as a ghost writer. Now before you puzzle yourself thinking "When the hell is a Virtual Assitant" let me explain: from what I've learnt, a Virtual Assistant outsources writers, photographer and other creative talent to complete comission work like articles and stock photos for online businesses. 

The weeks go by so fast these days, that I hardly realised that tomorrow is Friday--Just yesterday, I was forcing myself to roll out of bed at some ungodly hour to get here, bright and early on a Monday Morning.

On Wednesday, I seemed to have forced myself out of bed a little too early, or perhaps, a bit too forcefully, as I regrettably smashed my right thumb with the car door. the pain was unbearable for the day, and I had no use of my right thumb what-so-ever, but being the lucky MITS intern that I am, I was saved by the First Aid Kit in the Mud Lab, where I attended to my own wounds while the ever friendly Miss Cherry, who tidies up in the morning, lent her motherly support.

You might be thinking: Thank God it's Thursday? This person's probably happy tomorrow is Friday and that means a start to the weekend, and undoubtedly, two entirely work free days.

If that, my friend, is what you thought after reading the title to this blog post, then congrats--but you're only half right.

Not only am I happy that the weekend is upon us, I am also excited about authoring the very first MITS Intern Blog.

Starting today, the first day of July, I--an MITS Web Design Intern--will be taking you through a day in the life, or rather: "8 hours in the life, and sometimes a little bit more if there's a meeting," of a student intern working with the MITS Web Team.

I am really sleepy so this blog will be super short in comparison to the previous.

It was a good trip and the courses were great. Learned many things about Drupal and now I need to transfer the knowledge to other team members and get kicking with the redesign of the home page and top level pages.

JFK airport was ok, reached early and did some work on a document I have for the boss lady. For the first time I did the full selft check-in. Swiped my passport and all, it was easy, printed my boarding pass and dropped off the bag at the counter.

Today was a roaming day. Straight from class to the streets to see what was out there. Went by the State Capitol and saw nothing. It was like too quite.... Guess all the action is on the inside but since all the mayors were heading to town I didn't even try to get inside. Next thing them tell me how I am in some kinda trouble and I can't get to go home to the ackee and banana on a Saturday morning.

I didnt realize that school and work could be so hard. It is rough when you have to study all night and then have to get up and go to work and FUNCTION. 

So a day ago i was up late trying to finsh a project  I had for my  maters program and I ended up over sleeping and i almost missed a training session that i had to do.  Now i was seen by my supervior as being irresponsible, and yes it was wrong on my path to oversleep but I  guess he wouldnt understand that there are times when people just mess up. 

Anyway bloggers what do you think?

 The day began similarly to day one. We had breakfast at the same place. Price was good but should be going elsewhere tomorrow.

The session was about building Drupal forms and then security. Yeah we did some ethical hacking and it was fun. Made me think that I need to secure our web server and what other checks we will need. Think it requires a real security person for the web servers [@Jeremy, that means better deployment of scarce human resources].

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So the training was not bad, but I still think the application is not easy to understand. It is like a PHD thesis, you will only understand if you are at a certain level. Needless to explain what level I am at.