So it's the friday between christmas and new years

And this is the last place I'd like to be right now.

Meet Mrs. Grumpy Cat. Despite her grumpy face, she's apparently a right cheerful cat.
But I don't know, as she's from the land of the INTERNET!

I realized I hadn't posted a blog post, so here I go, late and not late at the same time. This is Schrodinger's post. yay science joke

Look at how much time I'm taking to make the words look all different and cool, you must get an idea for how slow things are moving here.

So, for Christmas I went down to Baltimore to spend it with my family, all 40+ people of the extended family. Holidays get quite hectic around my family for that reason alone. Christmas was different this year, as we had to cross out three different names from the 40+ people: My mom's father, my dad's mother, and my dad's uncle all passed away this year, and my dad's mother's (my grandmother) favorite holiday was Christmas. Needless to say, my dad's side of the family was a little blue, but it was good.

Now, for the new years, I'm going to a party at a friends house, and this will be the first time I'm not with my family for new years, so it ought to be fun!

What do I have to do before this weekend? Well, just get new computers as far along as I can. It's bottle-necked though, as I can only do two at a time. Oh well, I shall be doing a lot of that next week, and the week after!

HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYZ

 

 

I am SO SO SO excited to go home for the holidays! I took off all next week so I get to spend 12 daysat home! Although, the majority of my time will be spent with my friends. This Saturday I am going to see The Hobbit with my two best friends Derek and Kyle. We have been waiting for this movie to come out FOR EVER and it's finally here! This will be Derek's third time seeing and he has phenomenal taste in movies (meaning we have the exact same taste in movies) so I know this movie is gonna rule!

 

 

 

 

Another funtivity I will be doing with all of my friends is our annual tacky Christmas sweater bowling night! Pretty much we wear really tacky sweaters and just go bowling and cause trouble ;) Of course I will be spending my break with family and my cat Mark who I am convinced is the greatest cat on earth. He loves to fetch and always runs to the door when someone comes in, he's also devishly handsome. Haha, although Shark Week is my favorite holiday, I LOVE the holidays! I love gift giving and just the feeling of the holidays! Before we go on break I do have a number of things I would like to get done:

• This blog post
• Balance Dues
• AHA Cover Letter
• Order new envelopes
• HM13 Registrations

But nothing too terribly painful :) I can't believe it is Chrstmas already! Hope everyone has a great break and I will see ya in 2013! Oh! I am also really excited for our co-op holiday party in January so I am looking forward to that!





SO....what are your plans for the holidays? Are you taking any time off? What do you have to get done before some vacation time?

 I am planning on enjoying the wonderful holidays at home in sunny California! I can't wait for Christmas parties filled with lots of yummy food and desserts! I'm also looking forward to spending a lot of time at home watching Christmas movies with me, myself, and my teddy bear.

I'm planning on taking off the three days in between Christmas and New Year's, but my flight lands on January 2 at 7AM - just in time to make it back to work at 9AM (hoooraaayyyyyyyy)! Though my trip back home will be short-lived, I'm definitely excited to be back home - even if it's only for a week and a half.

Before I return home for vacation, I'm still continuing to work on the monster that is the medication database for MARQUIS. Though it's making progress, I doubt I'll be able to finish it before then.

HOLIDAYS!!

My plans for the holidays (and by holidays I mean Christmas because Hanukkah is over) are seeing my DOGS and sleeping.  I mean I was super popular in high school, so I will probably be welcomed into New Hampshire with a surprise party that my entire graduating class attends. 

I am taking off December 26, 27, and 28^th from work.  I don’t have anything really exciting planned for break, I’m just want to spend some time with my sister, friends, and dogs.  My only definite plan I have is to go to the movies with my mom and little sister, it’s a tradition.  But I will most likely be doing some shopping over break as well.

Before I leave I need to do a lot of email reports.  I won’t finish them before I leave because they are never ending.  Most all of my projects are ongoing, so there is nothing that has to be/can be finished before I leave.  I will continue working on market research when I return from break, creating a survey for membership.  Also, I will continue working on creative briefs and Hm13 staff information when I get back. 

Home for THe Holidays....I HOPE

This holiday season I don’t really have any awesome plans, besides just seeing friends and family and relaxing. I am going home this Friday after work hopefully my mom can pick me up if not later that night my dad will get me after he is done with work. I took off the 26^th, 27^th and 28^th like everyone mostly so I can have a nice 12 days off from work. Once I get home I will probably hang with my good friends and just chill watch some NBA games since we are all huge basketball fans! GO KNICKS! I started my Christmas fun already this past weekend when I went to New York City with friends to see the tree and just walk around which was sick! NYC during Christmas time is honestly the best time! While home, I am excited to see my family and going to Brooklyn where most of my family is and just eating a lot of great food! 

Besides the holiday festivities, I plan on catching up on a lot of TV and watch so many movies while I am home which I always love to do! Besides that I am going to be chilling listening to music, going out with friends and just having a good time! I will probably be buying a lot of things while I am home also, specifically clothes. (I am a girl when it comes to that but I don’t even care hahaha). I am excited to get back home especially because Drexel’s campus is dead and it’s super boring.

Before I return home, I have to continue my work with the Media Kit as well as working on the Membership Benefits webinar that is coming in the end of January. Both these projects will not be finished before I leave but it is work that I hopefully make a dent in so when I come back there is not as much to work on. I also am working on a few smaller projects for Ashley that she needs me to do before the 21^st. Overall, I am trying to survive to the 21^st and go home!

PS. I hope we go home because if the world ends on the 21st we are all going to die at SHM (Which would kind of be depressing hahaha) 

 

Holiday Holiday HOLIDAAAAY

I, for one, am SO EXCITED for my holiday vacation. On Saturday I'm waking up early and hitting the road with my fiance to spend 11 glorious days in North Carolina.

Last week and this week have been very deadline heavy, which is fine - but the break is much needed and rewarding. On my to-do list before my vacation:
-Get that newsletter out!
-Report on CODE-H
-Update a policy about CODE-H that I wrote
-Web updates
-Some things for the upcoming February Board Meeting


There's some little things mixed in there but it's nice having a list to cross off. It reminds me that I'm getting closer and closer to some R&R (which, at 25, I just realized means rest and relaxation).

SO....what are your plans for the holidays? Are you taking any time off? What do you have to get done before some vacation time?

HAPPY HOLIDAYS EVERYONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I GUESS I'LL ANSWER MEREDITH

Before I get 5,000 questions again, I should probably answer the Blog from last week.

So where do I start? Every project is rewarding in it's own way, and how does one measure the reward? Is it personal reward, corporate or otherwise? For the sake of the question, and for what I'm sure Meredith is going for here, I'll assume the reward is personal. More specifically, what has made me better or smarter.

Again, where do I start? On one hand, there is the QSC, and on the other there is the numerous IT Projects I've worked on so far this time. (I'm assuming my first time here is not part of the question.)

The QSC has been the biggest project in terms of importance (which is almost irrelevant in a corporate setting, as everything anyone in the company does is important) but if you look at all the IT projects, they're right on par. So lets name all the IT projects:

Dual Monitors - Completed - Purchasing and installing dual monitors on everyone's desks
Computer Replacements - In Progress - Purchasing and replacing old computers
MIL (Master Inventory List) updates - Always In Progress - updating the MIL project from my last time
Automatic Email Signatures - In Progress - getting everyone set up with the automated service
PerfectIt - Completed - Purchasing and rolling out the PerfectIt software for Marketing & Communications
Policy Pak - Always In Progress - updating and maintaining software I purchased last co-op
And the multiple high-level IT issues I had to handle.

Each of these is rewarding in it's own way, as is the QSC. However, I do have to pick one. So, in terms of knowledge gained in ONE project, it would be the QSC. Learning how to coordinate multiple departments and how cross-departmental work will be very rewarding in the future.

Rewarding Projects

 

I have had zero interesting tasks/projects.

 

HAHA TOTALLY KIDDING. I have been learning more and more about the Experient program which is the portal we use for HM13 registration. It's very scary and when I register someone I feel like if I mess up one little piece of information I am going to pee my pants.

 



 

I was just asked to do a mail merge and send out certificates to those who attended the AHA meeting in October. I am super good at putting things into envelopes and I love sticking labels on things so this is actually something I am enjoying because I can put my talents that I thought were useless to good use. I think it's awesome that we send out certificates acknowledging each attendee's participation and I'm sure they enjoy getting those certificates, I mean who doesn't enjoy getting an award? It's also kind of cool to see how many people attended and where they all live. Okay well now that I read that back to myself it sounds kind of creepy but it's a lot like looking at people's license plates on the highway, or am I the only one who does that too? #procreeperstatus #notashamed

 

Who is excited for all of the holiday festivities coming up? I am SUPER excited!



What has been your most rewarding task or project during your co-op with SHM so far?

Ever since starting here at SHM, JoAnne has slowly started giving me more and more tasks to work on for SHM's project on MARQUIS.  From entering patient data to creating excel spreadsheets for hospital sites, I've really been able to appreciate more the behind-the-scenes work for patient quality and improvement. It reminds me more and more that you are able to serve in healthcare not only by directly making patient contact, but helping improve their stay in hospitals and prevent patients from re-entering the hospital.

Especially for entering med history for patient data into QuesGen, I am constantly reminded how lucky I am to be healthy (for the most part). Seeing patients taking 30+ medications at the same time really reminds me how painful it is for a lot of people who are struggling physically with their health. With all those medications, it also encourages me to continue studying more to become more knowledgeable in pharmacology so I am able to effectively care for my future patients.

My Most Rewarding Projects

Since working here at SHM, I would say there have been two projects that I have worked on that I would say have really been rewarding and beneficial to my career development. The first project is the monthly work done with the Communications Dashboard. This allows me to take into account multiple communications channels such as social media, HMX and Cision/Google Alerts. Doing this monthly project has really given a great window of opportunity to learn a lot about Marketing and PR as a whole. It also has been great because Brendon and Ashley have been allowing me to do my own work with this project and as a team we have worked together to create what we believe is a strong Communications Dashboard. With this project I am learning a whole lot of information and skills that I can use in my future career development. 

For example, I had no idea what Cision was until I started working here at SHM, but Brendon and Ashley let me do the monthly reporting of media on SHM in Cision. This is a great skill for me to have at future jobs to say I created media lists as well as created Excel documents using Cision. Another thing that the communications dashboard allowed me to do is do social media reporting and tracking using Tweeter Feed and Google Analytics to see how well SHM is doing using social media. This really has been a great way for me to measure myself on how I am doing with social media and what I could be doing better to make SHM social media more successful. 

Another project that has been really helpful for me is the creation of the 2013/2014 Media Kit. This has taught so much not about just PR and Marketing at SHM but SHM in general. Leading the Media Kit project is awesome for me because its letting me learn a lot about myself as far as work ethic and making timelines. So far Brendon and Ashley have been an awesome help with the whole process and again are giving me awesome feedback when I need it. It is going to be great to see what the final project looks like when I am done and look back and say I did that! These are what I think have been my most beneficial and rewarding projects so far!

PS. This is random but I still need to be tested if I know the lyrcis to every Lil Wayne song! hahaha Feels so long since having that meeting where we had to answer Meredith's crazy questions!

I knew eventually there would be a really difficult blog question and I guess today is that day.  I was hoping this was going to be another question where I could write about my dogs.  I really like my dogs, but ok time to be serious.

The most rewarding project I’ve worked on during my co-op so far was the project with market research.   Market research was something I was interested in before starting my co-op here at SHM and I was very excited when I learned I could be a part of it. 
 
The website for making and sending surveys was not user friendly and it didn’t help that the marketing department wasn’t familiar with it.  Through trial and error, we figured out how to use the site.  It was a very frustrating and rewarding experience to learn this skill along with my department.  I didn’t feel like a co-op, I felt like a full time employee because my ideas and opinions were important to completing this project.  I look forward to future market research projects.  For example, analyzing the results of the surveys and creating surveys for the membership department. 

And for the record this is my rating for Surveymonkey’s tec. support team:

What has been your most rewarding task or project during your co-op with SHM so far?

Thanksgiving Break

Here is the most exciting thing that happened to me over Thanksgiving break: I SAW MY DOG!!! You might be thinking I had a lame Thanksgiving break if that was the most exciting thing to happen to me, but first you must know that I have the world’s best dogs.  When I got home Wednesday night they were so excited to see me, well they were as excited as 12 year old dogs can be.  I love them!

On Thanksgiving I watched the oh-so- wonderful Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade with my little sister.  And enjoyed the tradition of having my dad complain through the entire parade that there are too many performances and not enough parade, I guess my dad would enjoy watching people walk for 4 straight hours.   Since I am an expert cook, I made mashed potatoes.  Not to sound full of myself, but they were the best mashed potatoes of all time.

My best friend spent every night sleep on my couch witch was awesome because I can never spend enough time with her.  We went to the mall on black Friday in the late afternoon to go to Victoria Secret and I met her new boyfriend.  He is her RA, so that seems like a problem.  Also, my little sister bleached her hair and dyed it purple, so that was kinda weird. 

Thanksgiving!

My process of getting home for Thanksgiving did involve quite a bit of struggling, with me flying across the country to California with laryngitis. I'm actually quite surprised I wasn't quarrantined prior to entering the plane with all the frightened looks I received.

My Thanksgiving dinner was of course, very food-filled.

No holiday dinner is complete without apple cider! It was really great seeing my little cousins, especially the 7-yr old who asked me if I was married yet. (apparently if you're in college, you should be married!)

For the most part, I was very sleepy either due to food coma or my mounds of medication. Thankfully, by the time I returned to Philadelphia I was mostly better and my voice came back! Thanks to the wonderfully warm weather. I also realized coming back here, that Philadelphia is too cold. I will soon turn into a snowman.
 

Of Giving And Thanks

Thanksgiving has always been my day.
Home with the family, even Grandpa Ray.
A day of feasting, A day of football
Not again, I sigh, Houston has the ball.

Kitchen's a bustle, foods being made.
Sit at the table, everyone's prayed.
Gravy and Turkey, Potatoes and Stuffing.
I ate to much, my breath is huffing.

Valiant was I, four plates done.
I eyed up desert, maybe just one.
Now's all said and done, no more time to play
Goodbye everyone, hope you had a good thanksgiving day.

 

Turkey Day

 

My Thanksgiving  was phenomenal. My train to Harrisburg got delayed for an hour due to a commercial power outage in New York (what the heck New York!). But I made a friend while waiting and then we got to be filmed by the news crew, so that was awesome and totally worth getting home an hour late!

 

I was going to surprise a friend at work with her favorite drink from Starbucks but I guess my not so subtle questions about what time she worked until and where she parked gave my surprise away. One thing I learned from that is I will never be able to join the CIA, sorry dad.

 

It was great to see all my family under one roof even though it always involves some heated discussions. But once everyone downed a few glasses of our traditional Thanksgiving red wine, the day became much more interesting and everyone loved eachother much more.

 

My cat, Mark, was extremely happy to see me ... for about five seconds.

 

I went black Friday shopping with my mom and sister and will NEVER do it again. Being around large groups of people who would knife you in the foot without a second thought just to get 50% off on those Hulk Hands for their little heathen of a child with a temper problem just isn't my thing... sounds a lot like Greek life if you ask me, which also isn't my cup of tea.

 

Spent probably 95% of my break with my friends. Tacky Christmas sweater shopping, having bon fires, playing Nickelodeon trivial pursuit while watching American Horror Story ... ya know, normal boring stuff.

 

 

Now it's just a countdown to CHRISTMAS! Bring it on!

My Thanksgiving Break

My break was no way near as fun as Meredith’s but on Wednesday after work my dad picked me up at Drexel and we headed home back to Howell, NJ. Once I got home I hung out with my best friend from high school Johnny and caught up with him and we chilled and watched the Knicks game.

On Thanksgiving day, me and my parents went to Brooklyn and ate at my grandfather’s house. It was just relaxing time for the four of us. After that we headed home and voted against going Black Friday shopping because we just did not know any good deals or really needed anything that badly. Haha

The next two days, I just hung out with some more friends and just relaxed, this whole holiday was pretty much just relaxing and doing as little as possible haha. I played Call of Duty Black Ops 2 which is amazing by the way! But that was pretty much my fun for the Thanksgiving break. This is sort of random but something fun I did yesterday was I went to my first Eagles game which was really cool! It was freezing though by the 3^rd quarter and me and my friends all just wanted to leave!

Overall it was a nice little break and definitely one I needed! Hopefully I do something productive over Christmas break because I know when I come back I’m not going to be in the work mood at all…hahaha.

Hello, hello! If you think getting back into the swing of things after Thanksgiving, just wait until after Christmas/New Years! I am going to be gone for 11 days!

Alright, so tell me about your Thanksgiving break! 

Here's a little bit of what I did:
I went home to my mom's and we ate and went black Friday shopping until 3am.
I saw my best friend that I haven't seen in a year (she lives in Miami) and we went to a club and danced all night until 3am.
I went wedding dress shopping with 4 out of 5 bridesmaids and said yes to the dress!
I went on a bar crawl around old city and center city, which was a blast.
I gave my flower girl her dress and she spun around like a princess.
I went to a "friendsgiving" where 20 of my friends got together and had another feast.
I set up our Christmas tree and decorations with Andrew!

JAM PACKED.

Three Questions?! Balsphemy!

What have you been working on? 

I've been working on a top secret mission to get everyone dual monitors because they're awesome. But, I don't think its a secret anymore now that 3/4th of the office have dual monitors...

 

I've also been working on my super awesome Excel spreadsheet of AMAZINGNESS. It does everything: Shows the floor layout, Shows everyone's PC and monitor information ON the layout, Shows me everyone's warranty information via color codes ON the layout, Shows me whether or not peoples PC's are online ON the layout, and Bakes cookies and shows you the cost ON the layout.

 

Alright, that last bit may be a bit of an exaggeration. But you know what isn't an exaggeration? The importance of one of my newer projects, the QSC. QSC stands for Quarterly Service Conversation. In a nutshell, the QSC is there to open lines of communication between the Service Departments (IT, Project Management, Business Development, and Marketing) and the Business Owners (Advocacy, Membership, The Center, Education and Meetings, and Practice Management)

 

I will soon be working with Brett to get the rest of the servers virtualized (We're going Tron!) as well as working with him on a top secret but super awesome project, stay tuned for more.

 

What's the most exciting thing that happened in the past three weeks? 

Hmm. For me, the past three weeks have been pretty horrible. My Uncle passed away (thus me not being here the first half of the week) and we found out the hard way that my sister is now allergic to peanuts (don't worry, she's fine now).

 

But the word exciting, to me at least, has to be something thrilling, wondrous, and happy. So, the only thing that meets those prerequisites to be considered exciting, would be my 21st birthday! 

 

How did you like the board meeting experience?

It was alright. Lot of heavy lifting and fancy(compared to our normal attire) clothing. Same as it was last year.

What have I been up to?  Email reporting, email reporting, and more email reporting.  Weekly reports, bi-weekly reports, monthly reports, statistical projects, and analysis projects, if anyone needs an email report, I have them all.  But that’s not all that has been going on the past three weeks.  I said goodbye to my old supervisor, Celisse, and hello to my new one, Hayley.  I started working with Hayley and Irisa on a market research project.  Also, I continued the work on store shipping and reports. 

I don’t really lead a very exciting life, so this question is difficult.  I think the most exciting thing to happen in these past three weeks was throwing two of my friends a birthday party (They have the same birthday and they’re dating so cute)  I am going to do more exciting things in the future incase this question is asked again.  

I would give my board experience two thumbs up.  Nice people and good food, what more could you ask for.  One of the board members was from the town next to my home town.  It was exciting to learn that some people from New Hampshire actually do other things besides hunt and get snowed into their houses.  I called my parents to tell of this new discovery, but they didn’t believe me.  I hope he comes back soon so he can call my parents, maybe they will believe him. 

Over the past three weeks I have been working on a little bit of this and a little bit of that. I have been doing a number of things on Excel, lots of web updates and doing research for a project I was recently included on. I was also recently taught registration for HM13, it’s going to be a blast!

The most exciting thing that has happened to me in the past three weeks is that I FINALLY moved out of my atrocious apartment in University Crossings. and into a lovely house on 37^th and Spring Garden! Reasons why it’s better than my apartment in UCross:

1.       I HAVE MY OWN ROOM

2.       Free laundry (meaning I don’t have to pay $1.75 per load)

3.       My roommates are ballers

4.       There are cats!

5.       I can sleep peacefully at night without having to worry about the shenanigans going on in the bed 3 feet away from me (BECAUSE I HAVE MY OWN ROOM)

6.       No crummy boyfriends of roommates mooching off of me

7.       I HAVE MY OWN ROOM

Other than having my own room, I’d say the next best thing about my new place is the cats. I am really good at making friends with cats. When I go to a party and see a cat I know it’s going to be a great night. However, Snowflake (my housemate’s cat) has been giving me major attitude making it rather difficult to make friends with her. She hissed at me the first day and tried to claw me the next week. I was about to just forget it BUT yesterday she let me pet her, so I win this time Snowflake!

What Snowflake and I will be doing together when it snows.

As for the board meeting, I thought it was really fun. I mean what’s more fun than having a free lunch with a bunch of people who are way more important than you? Haha, those who I met from the board were really nice and had a great sense of humor so that gave them a gold star in my mind.

 

I wish I would have gotten to meet this guy and I wish he would have wore this exact same shirt to the board meeting.

WHO'S EXCITED FOR THANKSGIVING?! HOME COOKED MEALS, YES!

 

What have you been working on? 

What's the most exciting thing that happened in the past three weeks? 

How did you like the board meeting experience?

 I've been working on lots of Excel, Excel, and Excel. Oh, and a little bit of QuesGen too. 

 

Honestly though, I think the most exciting thing during these past three weeks was the singing telegram the Center got for Greg's birthday. After the craziness of the hurricane, we were able order a bellhop last minute to sufficiently turn Greg's face into a bright red tomato. Public humiliation is always the best birthday gift.

The board meeting was definitely an interesting experience. We spent about 5 minutes focusing all our brain power to try to make the seats next to us look more appealing to doctors. It worked! It was really nice meeting some of the board members, and getting to know more about them. It makes the board members seem more real, and less of just pictures on the wall!

 

What's Up, What's Happening!

What have you been working on?

Since joining the Communications team of Ashley and Brendon, I have been doing a lot of great work. My first big project I have been working on with them is updating the SHM Media Kit. I have been working on many different tasks on this project so far and it is an ongoing project that is going to take a very slow process but it has been a great way to introduce me to SHM and communications in general. Some of the ways I have been updating the media kit is creating excel spreadsheets outlining changes for the new year, looking at other medical organizations kits and creating a mock table of contents and possible page ideas for them. Our next step for this is to email out all the departments and gather updated membership data as well as information pertaining to SHM’s growth and see what we need to include in next year’s media kit. We are also looking at new creative ways to make the media kit standout such as creating a PowerPoint for the board and making the media kit more user interactive.

                Besides working on the Media Kit, other projects I have been working on are first updating and tracking social media daily. Through this process I am drafting and posting status updates and twitter posts with the most up to date information in SHM. This has been a great way for me to learn more about SHM and the amazing things going on. Tied into the social media planning and tracking are the updates to the Communications Dashboard. This is SHM’s Communications department’s monthly dashboard that tracks the most important media information and how SHM is doing compared to last month and last month of the previous year. My role in this is reporting on the Social Media aspect and relay up to date data on the users within our multiple social media sites. Also, I am using Cision to keep track of our media mentions and tracking that in excel documents as well as a way to keep up to date information on important media mentions for SHM. Another small ongoing task I am a part of is updating the rotating web banners which you see on the main page of the website. This has given me the chance to see the process that goes into a creative briefs and delivering of a final product for the SHM website.  Finally, I am doing continuous work with Ashley on HMX in creating webinar documents and help documents for new users who are having trouble with HMX as well as doing work needed for Ashley to help make HMX run smoothly.

What’s the most exciting thing that happened in the past three weeks?

A lot of great things happened for me in the last three weeks so it might be hard to pick one! One awesome thing that happened was I went to the New York Knicks/76ers basketball game with my roommates and friend. I am a huge NBA fan and a diehard Knicks fan so it was great to go see them play! I had not seen them play in over a year and a half so it was awesome to be at the game and to see them win at the same time! Plus I am a huge Carmel Anthony fan and he was my favorite player for years now and once he joined the Knicks I almost died inside! So seeing him was really cool! Another great thing I would say is going to see the awesome plays for my Theater class. This term I took an easy 3 credit Theater class and so far it has been great. The last three weeks we have seen some awesome plays and it has been great to relax after work on Thursday nights and go see plays around the city and go to places in the city I have never been to like the Wilma Theater and Plays and Players Theater. It has been an awesome experience so far!

How did you like the board meeting experience?

            The board meeting was really great! Though I did not get a chance to meet a lot of the board, it was still cool to interact with some members and let them learn about us and see what we do here at SHM. It was also cool to see the similarities people on the board had with me and other SHM coworkers. For example, one of the board members lives around the same area as me which was really cool. Sabrina also got a chance to talk to board members from California so it was cool just to see little similarities with the board and be able to relate to them. Overall it was a great experience and a great way to feel like an important part of the SHM team.