Last week, at my internship, was different than any other week that I have experienced. Both on Monday and Friday I went to events instead of staying in the office and as much as they both ended up being great experiences, at the time they were extremely stressful and a bit chaotic. Monday was the day United Nations Association of Greater Boston held their own event and I couldn't have been happier to be able to be a part of it, as much as it was a long day, but the day was calm until an hour before the event when everything seemed to hit the office at once. I needed to print out 150 copies of the event program and with our luck the computer and printer would not coordinate with us. It came down to 15 minutes left and finally the printer began to work and everything fell into the right place as the event went smoothly and was successful. There's no way to learn or train for a stressful incident in the office but I realized that the calmer I was the calmer everyone else was; maintaining your confidence and staying poised is a huge help when you're working with a team.
On Friday I worked the model UN conference at Northeastern University with a few of my colleagues and some other students involved in United Nations Association at Northeastern. When I walked into the classrooms in the morning I wasn't prepared for what I was about to do, which ended up being me sitting in front of 30 students (each representing a country) and helping the head "chairman" as she ran the model UN conference. Not understand one bit of the conference or how it was run was extremely stressful and scared me completely. Although, as I learned on Monday, by keeping calm and simply taking things one step at a time I ended the conference with much more knowledge and appreciation for the program as well as helped the event be successful.
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