Hey everyone! I finally had some down time today to post a blog. It has been a crazy, busy the last couple of months. As some of you may know, I have been currently interning at the Be Well Solutions Distance Dietetic Internship. I am two months away from graduating. My internship is 10 months long, but I have been surviving! Almost there! So exciting!

I am almost done with my eight month in my Wellness Rotation. This has been by far one of my favorite rotations. I have been interning at A Healthy Balance located south of Boston. I am very interested in wellness, and sports nutrition, so I finally have been in a rotation that suits my interests.

I definitley can say that throughtout a majority of my rotations during my internship  (food-service, community, clinical, and wellness), I have aquired better time management, communication skills, and problem solving skills, and better critical-thinking skills. The best part was that I got through all of this with the help and support from my family, friends, and my boyfriend. It has not been easy, and most of the time I felt the pressure and stress getting the best of me. A lot of times I had to step away and remind my self why was I doing this and what was the end goal. 

I would not change a thing regarding where I am in life. I am where I am in life for a reason and I am not giving up with a good fight. I must say I have had to fight through many hurdles, but it was all worth it. The dietetic internship is remarkably competetive and there is only a 49% acceptance rate each year. I did not get accepted into an internship during my senior year of college and feared where my life would end up from there. I honestly cannot complain. I feel like once I graduated from college, everything seemed to fall into place over time. I had the chance to figure out what I really wanted to do with my career, and believe it or not this time last year I finally became ACSM certified as a personal trainer and took a vacation in Germany and met long distance relatives that I have never met! Most importantly I really researched internships that I felt my chances were higher. And here I am! Sometimes you need to step back and let life take its course, eventually everything falls together one way or another with perserverance, faith, and courage. 

Starting in September, I will be finishing my last rotation doing my Emphasis which will be entrepreneurship, and mainly working with a registered dietitian who has their own private practice. This will be great experience for me considering a possible interest of mine is to someday have my own private practice focusing on wellness, nutrition counseling, and personal training. I definitley like to keep an open mind for big oppuritunities towards things I can see myself doing.

My moto for today is always keep an open mind, and never settle. We live in a big world, and no one, including yourself know what you are even capable of doing. Dream big!