It’s hard to believe that another summer has come and gone. As the title of this article suggests, I spent my summer working at two internships, both of which were comfortably located at the University of California, Irvine. At UCI Applied Innovation, a Chancellor-sponsored initiative focused on uniting and growing Orange County’s entrepreneurial community, I worked on Marketing Analytics as … More Things I learned from my Summer 2016 Internships

Only one week left for my internships! This week, I started wrapping up everything I’ve been working hard on these past few months. With UCI Applied Innovation, I’ve created a couple more spreadsheets custom-fit with my data formulas to obtain updated metrics on how well our social media marketing strategy is doing. Next week, I have … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 8

After a week off for vacation, I’m back at my summer internships. With only a couple weeks left before the internships end, I plan to keep learning while also creating a tangible legacy of the work I’ve done to help current employees and future interns. At UCI Applied Innovation, I applied my econometrics background towards creating … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 7

Rounding out the end of the official learning component to the ISSUP program, I spent this week exploring the final two site visits, designing content to complement our paid media proposals, and giving a couple presentations on what I’ve done these past few weeks. Monday and Tuesday were filled with site visits to Blizzard and Google, respectively, … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 6

This week marks the beginning of the end for the learning component of my ISSUP internship at UCI Applied Innovation, but the program is sure ending with a bang. On Monday, the ISSUP interns headed off to Disneyland, where we got a special behind-the-scenes tour of different aspects of the parks. At the on-site Disney corporate … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 5

Week 3 of the ISSUP program featured the first three of six site visits to companies across the Orange County area. Over the week, we visited Modulated Imaging, Irvine Pharmaceutical Services, and Edwards Lifesciences. Modulated Imaging, a startup spun out of UCI’s Beckman Laser Institute, is creating easy-to-use machines that help identify Diabetes patients at … More The Anteater Diaries – Part 4