Reading Ashley's post, I started remembering more about Hershey.  My family used to go there once a year, but sadly it just became too expensive.  My favorite park would have to be Knoebels, up in Elysburg PA.  The place is great.  It's in the middle of nowhere, with some excellent space directly next door that is perfect for camping.  The place is full of trees, so it's always nice and shady, the food is great, and the rides are sweet.  They have 3 roller coasters (2 wooden and one indoor steel), with a third under construction (ok, there is a kiddie coaster too, but that doesn't count).  Out of them, I love the Pheonix, the oldest of the park's current coasters.  My favorite ride there, though, is the Powersurge.  It's set up with a six-spoked wheel.  On the end of each wheel, there is an arm that comes down, and connects to two sets of seats (one set on each side of the arm, 2 seats per set).  This wheel is attached to a horizontal arm.  The arm lifts the wheel into the sky, so it's vertical.  then the chair sets (the individual sets of 2) spin freely, as the arms the seat sets are attached to rotates, AND the wheel itself spins.  It's pretty insane.

Well growing up only about 20 minutes from Hershey Park I have to definately say it is my favorite amusement park. We used to have family passes and go almost every Friday night with my grandparents and family. It was always such a blast! Every year the park gets better and better too which keeps it interesting. They are always adding new rides and I mean you can't resist taking a trip to Chocolate World every time you go (which is right next to the park and has a free experience ride where you get free chocolate at the end). Hershey Park now has a new water park which is really cool because before that they never really had any good water rides. I have to say though my favorite ride is probably either the Great Bear or the Super Duper Looper which are both roller coasters. I am a huge roller coaster fan and love the thrill of all the different rides offered at Hershey Park.

-Ashley Bupp

We're going to go for a fun question this week....so here it goes! 

What is your favorite amusement park, and your favorite ride there?

Picking just one goal is going to be hard for me because I'm still making small goals every day and trying to learn more about what my role is here so that I can create some good long term goals. But the one goal I would pick right now that I want to accomplish before I leave here is to have a well rounded experience and add at least one thing from each department to my skill set in the workplace. I guess my goal is to learn, but I specifically want to make sure I cover all the bases and get at least a little something from everywhere, so I can use it later in anything that might come my way.

Wow.  A whole month has gone by.  On the other hand, has it really only been a month?  It's incredible that I can feel like I've just started, and been here for so long all at once.  My professional goal while I am here is simple.  I want to learn.  I want to learn how to set up, maintain, manage, upgrade, administer, interact with, empathize with, and talk with complex corporate computer networks.  I've already learned a ton, but I know full well that, relatively, I don't have a clue.  I really just want to be able to leave SHM after my time is up, being confident in my abilities, and knowing what I'll need in order to succeed in life.

Goal

Marketing is always fascinating to me. I feel like my knowledge fund has never been full as I dive into the dynamic and colorful marketing world. To me, its central theme of "being different" brings out variety and innovation of marketing. So, until I walk out of SHM, I want to figure out myself how marketing for non-profit organizations is different from that of profit-driven entities, and how to make it effective. I know goals should be specific, but let's just consider the main idea of it. I am pretty sure that I can learn this matter in school, but, for me, why don't take this opportunity and learn it from SHM? And since I'm doing PR here, I hope I can specify my goal toward the PR.

I hope we all successfully achieve our goals after 6-month working in SHM.
Cheers,

TN
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I can't believe we are already almost done with our third week here already! One professional goal that I want to accomplish while I am at SHM is really getting an understanding of how hospitalists and nurses work together in the hospital areas. Since I am a nursing major getting an understanding of this is something that really interests me and I think is helpful to know. It's nice to see this side of the business in the sense that nursing doesn't always have to be actually physically caring for patients at the hospital but be on a team that cares, reaches out for and prevents problems from occurring. Therefore getting a better understanding of how the nurses fit into this team seems like it would be something that would be good to understand fully.

-Ashley Bupp