One spring day, a Student Prince decided to go on a summer adventure. “It won’t be long before I have a career,” the Prince said, “so I’d better start preparing now.” So with some ’Berg education under their hat, and some connections in their back pocket, the Student Prince began forging their way through an internship.
We continue our web series, Internship Chronicles.
Chapter 9: “The Summer in Orrville”
Ethan Campbell is a rising senior computer science major from Fostoria, Ohio. Alongside his major in computer science, he is also minoring in business. Ethan is involved in a variety of groups and activities around campus, 包括电子竞技俱乐部, 澳门银河网站的历史学家, 还有各种各样的音乐合奏. After graduation, Ethan is interested in careers in IT, system administration and infrastructure. This summer, Ethan interned with the J.M. 等公司. He worked on the Cloud infrastructure for this Fortune 500 company!
How did you find your internship, or how did the internship find you?
I found the internship through Heidelberg. I went to an online event that Smucker was hosting, that many D3 schools in the OAC were participating in. This got me interested enough in the opportunities that I applied online on the Smucker 网站. They gave me an interview, and the rest is history!
What did you expect from your internship initially?
I expected to get some tasks that were interesting but probably fairly straightforward in their implementation. I didn't expect to get anything particularly 对公司很重要, 因为我只是个实习生, 毕竟.
What really happens in your day-to-day work?
I have gotten projects and work that are absolutely, 在某些方面是可怕的, 对公司很重要. 我的日常工作可能会有所不同, but I have gotten to do some very cool implementations of software that will streamline tasks for the rest of the team. I have also written some documentation for software that I have implemented, as well as worked on developing some automation software. I have also gotten experience with the adoption of Cloud Infrastructure. 然而, this day-to-day got interrupted a few weeks ago, when Smucker needed front-end developers, back-end developers and infrastructure people such as myself, to shift focus and work on a program for Smucker that was of extremely high importance. That project gave me the best crash course I could've hoped for in Cloud infrastructure, and was a huge collaboration and learning experience.
你找到了什么联系?
I have gotten the opportunity to talk to many executives here at Smucker, as well as many others. My team is full of very cool people, and it has been a pleasure to get to know my manager better, 还有团队的其他成员. I have been able to talk to the head of the Information Services department on multiple occasions. Smucker encourages interns to schedule coffee chats with anyone within the business that they want (within reason!), to just talk to them for a half hour. It has been super interesting to take advantage of that opportunity!
What is the most valuable thing you’ll bring back to the classroom after this experience?
适应性. I have been thrown into a lot of different projects and a lot of different things here at Smucker. Not every one of them has the same solution. You can’t approach all of them with the same mindset. You have to be able to quickly adapt to the next thing, the next project, the next meeting.
If your internship was a book or a chapter in a book, what should it be titled?
《澳门银河网站》
Orrville is where the company is located, and I have spent basically all summer here. It’s been a really great summer, mostly because of my internship!
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To keep up with the work Ethan is doing, check out his LinkedIn.