Day Zero- May 7th, 2013

Unfortunate, today was not a day of work. Due to the unfortunate failure of modern technology, the area I am performing my internship at (Caribbean Business) could not allow us to perform our duties. As it turns out, they had not received our insurance/waver papers due to a bug in their computers, thus they could not legally let us work. If they did and I or one of the other students were injured, they would get into some serious legal trouble. So instead, they gave us the 'grand tour' of the entire building.

The building where Caribbean Business' office is also contains the offices of other publications that are regularly sold in Puerto Rico. They have entire sections of the building dedicated to fashion, graphic design, and just plain news. During the tour, our guide explained to us that computers have simplified a lot of things with newspapers from the old days, like if they wanted a page in color they had to make numerous different sheets of the same newspaper, each one containing what color they wanted on the picture or article, and place them on top of the original negative version. Sometimes, the page would be about four pounds in weight! I myself was amazed at the entire place, and how organized and efficient everyone seemed to be. I wanted to intern at a place where I could observe how my potential career for Political Science could be put into affect. Knowing that I will be interning at Caribbean Business, a weekly newspaper that regularly deals with numerous political events, I can be assured that this place will most definitely help me in my future.