What my biggest challenge during the internship will be



Today, my teammates and I organized a coffee chat with former explore interns who now work as Product managers with Microsoft Excel. During that coffee chat, my primary questions were how they navigated the ambiguity of the internship. Unlike class projects that I have done at Berea College, I find the project requirements for my internship less clear, and hard to understand the exact project requirements. Furthermore, the path to follow to complete the project is equally undefined by my internship mentors and manager. As a result, I spent my entire first week confused about what our internship supervisor expected of our team regarding our internship project.
To make my confusion more, neither my teammates nor I knew where to start. Since the internship is a combination of product management and engineering, my team decided to spend the first month developing the product specification before diving into the software engineering part of the project. With only four weeks dedicated to product management, it was frustrating that it took us an entire week to figure out where to start. 
 My biggest challenge throughout this internship will be navigating the ambiguity in the project requirements. Unlike my school projects at Berea College, the internship project's requirements, expectations, and guidance toward those goals are unclear. They are not organized in a google document or spelled out on Moodle. Transitioning from the well-organized project descriptions to the evolving and ambiguous internship project requirements will be challenging.

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