This is my last full week. The internship ends on the 29th, and most of what is left is finishing documentation and making sure everything I built has an owner who is not me. Looking back at the summer, the volume of it surprises me more than any individual piece. Rebuilt websites for our properties,…
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Reflecting on Communication Differences – Week 7
Two weeks left. Most of my remaining work is handover, plus a set of conversations about what happens to the systems I built once I leave. That has meant more meetings than usual, which is fitting given this week’s topic. Outside the office, I have been trying to do the last few Stockholm things I…
Leadership Skills and Style – Week 6
The internship is winding toward its end, and the character of the work has changed with it. Less building, more consolidating. Most of the properties are now off the old platform and running on the setup I put together, which means the interesting problems have shifted from “can this be done” to “will this still…
Critical Reflection on Skills and Competencies, Week 5
This week was less about building and more about accounting for what we already had. I was asked to put together a complete picture of what the company spends on its web platform, which meant exporting every subscription, categorizing them, and annualizing everything at renewal price rather than the price we were used to seeing….
Week 4 – Adaptability and Flexibility
Update from Stockholm The last couple of weeks have been the busiest of the internship so far. Most of my time has gone into the company’s web presence, which turned out to be a much larger project than it sounded like at the start. We manage several properties, and each one had its own website,…
Hej from Stockholm! Week 3
By far the most exciting week yet. After two weeks of getting comfortable with the website, the data, and the railway system, things shifted from maintenance into something with real stakes attached. Taking Charge I am now assuming charge of an actual property, and for the next month I will be managing its average nightly…
Hej from Stockholm! Week 2
The Commute Most of this week’s progress happened before I even got to the office. I have slowly come to understand the railway system here, which took longer than I would like to admit. The first few days involved a fair amount of standing on platforms, second-guessing which line I was on, and occasionally riding…
Hej again from Stockholm! Week 1 in the Books
Settling In Week one is done, and I can confirm that Swedish offices really do empty out by the time the clock hits a reasonable hour. The flat hierarchy thing also checks out, which took some getting used to coming from a culture where titles tend to do a lot of talking. But more on…
Hej from Stockholm! An (Almost) Pre-Departure Introduction
About me I like being thrown into new places, and that is probably the fastest way to describe me. Back home I am a junior studying economics, where most of my coursework has leaned toward finance, statistics, and applied data work. Outside of the classroom, I have spent time in data analytics and systems administration,…
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