Reflections

The time I felt most achieved and proud at my internship was the success of my first big project in my email service that I completed a couple weeks ago. This project took me upwards of 3 weeks to complete at it involved, learning, planning, and coordinating with so many different aspects of software development that I had never used or touched before. This accomplishment struck me harder than any other because of my attention to detail and the solitude in which I tried to maintain in completing the project. The time it took me to go over every detail and connect it into our code database was much longer than expected but this only made me feel more satisfied when I was finally able to capture a request and send it as an email. I had done minor projects prior but it was all material I knew prior to starting my internship so it did not give me the same amount of fulfillment as this much larger project did. I would say my greatest accomplishment so far has been my ability to become an asset to my team at MoMo.

The first three weeks or so I was so slow and unaware of all the different tools I had at my fingertips that it would take me a long time to complete a task or require assistant from my team. Not to say I do not still ask for my coworkers help or opinion from time to time but I feel as if I am much more capable of handling the tasks given to me on my own and much more efficient in general. It’s nice to be apart of a real team that produces content and feel as if their success are aided by your help rather than the spectator I felt as first. Living in HCMC has taught me so many different ways of looking at life maybe not through my own lens but molding my lens through those of another. I definitely already say I was an empathetic person before I came to HCMC but I think this city has taught me the value of being empathetic. Being open minded has taught me that growing is much easier when you let in someone’s views who has experienced a certain situation for far longer. It also is much easier to make friends when you let yourself experience all the different things a place and its people have to offer and I would say it has helped me greatly to make so many friends at my work, despite how difficult it can be in terms of communication at times. Here’s a picture of me and my friend Phoung: