Co-Op Reflection

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[...] Yes, I work for a very wealthy company, and what ever minute amount I decide to spend on the trip will not matter in the grand scheme of things, but to put it simply, it is wrong and unethical (as I had learned in my Co-op class) to spend the company's money at will and inappropriately. Right away the ethical knowledge that I had acquired in my Co-op class had helped me to make the right decision. Because I had already been at this company for my last Co-op, I had a running start. [...]

[...] Co-Op Reflection The tools and skills that I needed to complete the job I had already acquired through independent study. There were some software packages that I had become very fluent in the last Co-op that I did, and I kept using them this time, as well. The job required that I have a supreme knowledge of statistical packages and knowledge of excel. One of the few software packages I had used already was UCINET, a statistical package famous for its network analyses tools. [...]

[...] I learned that to be a professional sometimes you just have to be yourself. In the professional world, as in the casual and social world, people will not accept a fake. They will not accept a superficial person, who does not act themselves, and who does not obey the general rules. There had been a great display of professionalism in our social game of tennis in that we were both very respectful to each other, and said ‘thank you.' Another chance that I had to learn about professionalism was during my trip to Chicago. [...]