PREPARING FOR MY PAPER

     For the past few days, I have been stepping away from my main task in internship as I am preparing my internship paper. I talked with my supervisors yesterday about our plan as we wrap up with the internship with one more week to go. While I am a computer science, the data I am working with is a literary work by authors from a specific literature period, so my paper will need to include some information about literature, however, this is totally outside of my field and I do not know anything about it.

    Fortunately, both my supervisors have a good amount of literature knowledge, and the one of the, an English professor is an expert in the specific era we are working on. So, during our talk yesterday, I asked them if they could assist me finding some resources and references for the literature part of my paper. Both of them were happy to help me. So, we are having a zoom meeting tomorrow where I will ask any question I have regarding the period of literature we are working on. So, I have been preparing these questions for the past two days.

    It is my first time asking a person to allocate a part of their time to help we accomplish something, and I spent weeks trying to find the resources myself before I decided to ask for help. What I learned from this was that if only I decided to ask for help earlier, I would have had all the information I needed by now. I taught me to not be afraid to reach out for help whenever I work on a topic that I am not familiar with and I know someone who is experience in it.

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