I will preface this entry with the following: I am really excited about this opportunity, still, and am thankful that we will get to experience quite literally all options a dietitian has for careers.
Now, on to the nitty gritty, crazy stuff we learned today. I feel like my brain is full to the point of near-overflow with information about where things are, who certain people are, and what all I will be doing over the next eight weeks in food service.
I begin my time here at Mayo working in the Food Service department learning about everything from patient meal service, to retail services, and finally to food service management. The rotations themselves won't be too much, just remembering WHERE to go and WHEN I am supposed to be at work will be tough! Some rotations have us getting in around 9, most of them around 7, but even some as early as 6 and 6:30 am!! Those will be the long days, but the good news is that no days will be keeping us past 4:30. Most days even have us getting out at 3:30.
While I can't disclose too much information, due to the nature of our work and the privacy Mayo likes to maintain, I can tell you that the food service rotation comes with many projects. We will be planning a theme meal (flash back to HRIM 330 and the dinners the 430 HRIM students made) and education posters individually as well as a few smaller projects and handouts to be used at various events throughout the rest of the internship. Together, we will come up with a hurricane preparedness project and develop a 3-day meal plan for a family of four going through a hurricane. Since we are so prone to these natural disasters and hurricane season is quickly peaking, this project will be happening quite quickly.
We got to spend a little more time with one of the previous class' interns who will be here until Labor Day. She seems super nice and has told us that the two of them are interesting in taking us out to dinner to get to know the program further and spend some time with them! Rory, the current intern we've met, gave us their contact information, and I found out that the second intern, Dacyl, is from Kennett Square (near home) and she has a 610 area code! I immediately felt more comfortable knowing I'm not the only northerner here because sometimes I worry that people think I'm too loud or that I talk to fast or use wrong words.
We got out of work around 3:30 today after passing the IRB test (qualifying us to work with human subjects for research). We made a pit-stop at Target to get a few things and then came home to brain dump. I went to the gym for a little to keep my knee moving well and then just relaxed on the couch. We're watching some TV now after Jessica and I both put everything into our planners for the next eight weeks.
I am and was really happy to get our schedule for this internship, but also a general schedule for the rest of the internship. I was SO happy when I found out that I had Labor Day off, which means I get to go home and not only see my family but spend some time with Jeff at home (since he will also be traveling there). We get two days at Thanksgiving which will be a very pricey flight home unfortunately. We also get the ENTIRE week off at Christmas, which means I will be able to see some snow (hopefully!!! and hopefully it doesn't mess with my travel plans)!
I thought today's entry would be a lot longer due to the amount of information I seem to have bouncing around in my head but I think I've managed to hit all the high points. Tomorrow we take an actual practice RD exam and I am not setting my hopes high. I am hoping that I will end up knowing more than I think I will, but it's pretty intimidating. Luckily, our internship director won't look at these scores, only we will so I don't need to be worried that she will say "whoops, I guess we should send you home instead."
So here's to really jumping in and getting our feet wet as pre-RD's tomorrow!
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