Internship!

After much nail-biting and suspense, the paperwork for my internship was completed last Thursday and I began working with Liberty's Marketing Department yesterday (Tuesday).

My first day went much better than expected, keeping in mind that I was scared to death! Thankfully this office is full of kind, helpful, patient people that are all willing to fill me in and help me along until this job becomes second nature.

One of my supervisors connected me to the server and showed me where to find my daily tasks that are assigned to me. She got me started on a couple of simple projects to help me get comfortable with the process of designing, proofing, correcting, and submission. She was very patient with my dozens of questions, and for that I am eternally grateful. I know that this internship will be extremely beneficial to me and I'm excited for all of the things I'll learn and the friends and connections that I'll make!

I also had my first Publication Design class which went much better than I expected. The professor is really cool but doesn't accept any slacking and allows little room for error. I'm grateful that she is so exacting because I feel that some of my design professors are too easy on us and don't require a high enough level of excellence.
Since I registered late for the course I didn't have the first assignment but am working on it. She gave a quiz yesterday and I took it even though I don't have the book. Most of it was easy to guess and I got two out of the three multiple choice questions correct. The rest were write-in responses that she hasn't graded yet so we'll see how that goes.
She lectured on how to create a book template, and I knew almost everything that she went over. It felt so good to be ahead of most of the class!

The bottom line(s) of this post is/are this: I am way too anxious. It's definitely hardwired into my being. I chatted with my mom yesterday evening about my experiences and she reminded me of Philippians 4:6:

"Do not be anxious about anything, but in everything, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God."

and Hebrews 13:6:

"So we say with confidence, "The Lord is my helper; I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?"

I learned today that these situations that seem so life-changing are all in the palm of God's hand. However, no matter how much he has to remind me, I always forget it the next day. So he reminds me again...and again...and again. I am SO GLAD that he doesn't get tired of reminding me of his goodness and his plan for my life.




I began my day in a terrified and flustered mindset and went to bed feeling so relieved and relaxed. God is good.