One thing we hadn't discussed in depth at the beginning of my internship were additional projects outside the three major projects. I put my time logs into an Excel spreadsheet and the total number of hours so far has barely reached half of the required 135 hours worked. I'm somewhat surprised and yet, not really. In my work experience, aside from 'special' tasks, one usually is assigned a general list of tasks to complete in your 'work time' when you have no special projects to do so you aren't just standing around. In the virtual environment, it would be difficult to accurately gauge how long a project will take someone (especially in cases like ours where we only interact with our site supervisor once a week) and sometimes a new assignment is not given immediately after the completion of one task.
This week I am working on making additions to two lists of virtual worlds currently available. I've learned a lot from the past two projects and am making a list of virtual worlds not currently included on the published list. What is interesting is the broad spectrum of 'virtual worlds' and the audiences they serve. Without saying too much, there are definitely some that I hadn't thought of as 'virtual worlds' that would be interesting to businesses until I'd started working at this internship.
The one Golden Rule of this internship is to not email the site supervisor on Sunday because it is her one 'unplugged' day. As such, I will be emailing her on Monday to ask about any additional tasks I can help out with around the site or reports to write to fulfill my hour requirement. I should hope I can squeeze them in as soon as possible.
Time sure is flying by.
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