Blog Post #11

After completing my project on the advertisement designs for Chegg, I realized that my second internship at Chegg was coming to a close. I was disappointed that the internship had come to what felt like an abrupt end and was eager to keep working. However, I was not in a position to ask for full-time employment, and I still realized that I needed a lot more college and other work experience to consider asking for a full-time job with the company. Alas, after one more day of work in the San Francisco office, I walked south in the direction of the CalTrain station, which was what I assumed would be my last time working for Chegg.

I was impressed with myself for being able to succeed during my second internship. However, I felt underwhelmed, and at times, I felt underutilized and thought I could have contributed more. I am the kind of person who always thinks that I can always do better, even after the job is complete, so parts of me felt that I could designed the ads with more style or pop and do a better job. Although these thoughts lingered, I was more down about probably never working for Chegg again, as it'd be a while between me graduating college and being eligible to work for Chegg as a full-time employee. I attended the University of Denver in the Fall of that year, and the first thing I realized was how much I missed working. I struggled there, and it was not easy for me to adapt well to the new environment. I lasted through the fall quarter, but what would happen during the start of the spring quarter (March 2020, more specifically) was something nobody else could have predicted, as the world changed drastically in a matter of days.