THE FINAL POST

“Today knowledge has power. It controls access to opportunity and advancement.”
- Peter Drucker

Looking back at the past ten weeks, simply in one word . . . wow. If you would’ve told me that I was going to be writing over ten stories, have my own office, fly all over Texas, be published on a Web site and magazine, and have an article in the Dallas Morning News . . . I would have said you were crazy.

Overall this has been just a great opportunity as not everyday does a 21-year old like myself go into a corporate setting and feel like he belongs. I felt the people in this company make it what is as I’m very grateful for that.

Skill-wise I feel I’ve learned what it means to be on a deadline. I use to learn that a lot in the LSL setting at school, but here, if one person is late, we’re all late. In this setting, you really don’t want to let the person next to you down, as in this setting, you won’t just get a F for a course, you’ll simply get fired.

I feel I have matured over these last couple of weeks as being out here has got me out of my comfort zone and let me seen who I really am. I have seen myself budget wisely, and sometimes not too wisely, but for me, it’s good to learn this tip now, then years in the future.

What I feel that is a great thing to have learned is the idea of what it is like to work for a non-profit organization. These people daily are enriching and helping the lives of the less fortunate, they’re not profiting off the poor, not stealing from the rich, but an equal gain in helping those in need. You definitely can’t put that in words.

So as I leave in a matter of days, I hope to take with me the memories I’ve learned here, the people I’ve met, and together make me a much better man in my future.


-William Ryan Brown . . . . . . . . the intern