Week 4

July 1st - Monday
7:15am - 7:00pm

This morning I met with my group one last time before out presentations tomorrow. We are confident in what we are pitching and cannot wait to share it with the rest of the FOCUS team (hundreds of people!!!) I spent the rest of the day working on some social media stuff and beginning to sketch out a plan for some Instagram videos. I also took another group onto my plate by joining a group that is refurbishing the basement of our building to turn it into our offices. It will be a lot on my plate, but I am going to give it a shot.  At 3pm, all interns were released and we headed over to the riverfront for a dinner cruise on the Detroit Princess. You see, Quicken Loans plans tons of events in and around Detroit so that employees become more comfortable and begin to realize all of the things going on that we may have been missing out on before. On our walk to the river (1/2 mile) we got SOAKED. It rained the entire boat ride so we ended up hanging out inside There was food, music and a dance floor. When the boat docked around 7pm we had to walk to our cars at Joe Louis (another 1/2 mile) and got soaked again. I was chilled to the bone for the rest of the night.

The "Unicorns" out on the dance floor of the Detroit Princess!

July 2nd - Tuesday
7:10am - 6:00pm

Today was the big day... Project presentation day! Our group did very well and received tons of compliments afterwards. The compliments that I seemed to get were on how well it was presented and how great of a public speaker I am. That really was important to me and gave me a huge boost of confidence. We will find the winner out some time next week. I had to admit to myself that I am over-booked and needed to remove myself from the library project group. They sent out a weeks worth of meetings requests and it was over 10 hours of meetings. I would not have enough time to dedicate to my social media and other writing tasks. I spoke with the leader and removed myself. I hate admitting that I cant handle something, but I know that had I have remained on that team, my other work would have suffered.




July 3rd - Wednesday
7:00am - 4:15pm

This morning we had project presentations again because we needed to finish with the rest of the groups. After that we had our Unicorn Dance Party. This probably sounds kind of crazy... probably because it was. We (the unicorns - which is a nickname for the imagitivity team) were told we would need to do a dance in the heart of downtown for anyone and everyone who decided to watch. Our entire team was invited to come down and watch. We found out that it was a joke and we would never really have to do it, but we decided to go through with it anyways. We planned a choreographed dance to the song "I was Born a Unicorn." We performed it for hundreds of people in front of the Qube (Chase Building) and it was awesome. We received so many compliments and were told we were trendsetters for the future unicorn interns to come.

July 4th - Thursday

Quicken Loans is Closed! Happy Independence Day!

I spent my 4th in Canada... which is pretty ironic.




July 5th - Friday
7:00am - 3:00pm

Today was a quiet day in the office. Most people took the 5th off and went away for the weekend. The few of us that were here brought movies and watched them on the floor TV while we were working. I sorted through some photos on the network drive to begin compiling more Pinterest boards and also began creating a presentation for what we want to do with social media for the fall and winter after the interns are gone. It was a laid back day and we all left fairly early to go home and enjoy the rest of the holiday weekend.



Total hours this week: 39.85