Mikaela Seltzer

It is a giant pile of oyster shells. At MACAA Tour

My internship is going really well! I am learning a lot. I have been working on putting

together an outline using data from a survey regarding on-farm research. An example of

communication last week was when I had to ask quite a few times for clarification regarding

the outline and on a different project as well. It was effective because my mentor gave me

more direction regarding it. I did notice that email is a preferred communication, which is

something that I need to work on getting used to professionally sending emails and utilizing

email more. Some takeaways that I have are asking questions, and taking more notes about

the things I am learning from my mentors. An example of this is the first time I did bug

counts with my mentor Emily. In the first two rows of collards, I had to ask her so many

times which worm was which and if something was an egg. It did make it take a little longer

but she told me that it was normal because I had never done it before, and it was

understandable that I did not know what I was looking for. That kind of reassurance helped

me realize that is okay to ask questions and reminded me that I still need to work on my

communication.

BBQ at MACAA tour where I was hanging out with some of the other interns.