How the internship experience solidified or changed your career focus. Which classes and/or classroom experiences prepared you for the internship; how those classes and/or classroom experiences prepared you; be specific.

Internship

You have taken an internship with the department of veterans affairs google the many responsibilities the VA handles, base your reflection paper mostly on the criminal justice responsibilities to explain your internship experience. Be as creative as necessary (but realistic).

Why you chose to complete an internship (your objectives) and selected this internship, in particular? Neither improving your knowledge of language used by criminal justice professionals nor overcoming your fear of public speaking are appropriate objectives.

Whether you accomplished your objectives during the internship.

Indicate how you accomplished each. If you didn’t accomplish some, indicate why you were unable to do so.

Your biggest challenge during this internship, how you overcame that challenge, and what you learned from the challenge.

Any insights that you gained into the practices/problems associated with this particular line of work.

Your contributions to the agency/organization; be specific.

The best and worst aspects of the internship; be specific.

The value (professional and/or person) you received from the internship

How the internship experience solidified or changed your career focus.

Which classes and/or classroom experiences prepared you for the internship; how those classes and/or classroom experiences prepared you; be specific.

Which additional courses, if any, or experiences are needed to continue preparing for your future career; be specific.

References (a minimum of 5 are required)