The INROADS final thoughts
Well, barring the senior reception and maybe an ISA dinner and picnic, my INROADS career is over. I don’t think it will truly hit me until my internship is officially over, but there was definitely moments of realization at our recent LDI and the awards banquet recently.
For any minority students who are looking for not just an internship, but truly a career opportunity, I can’t fight for INROADS enough. To go from being a shy, quiet, unmotivated high school senior with no idea how to get a job much less a good one to having the opportunity to apply for an IT Leadership Program in a Fortune 50 company and to either way have an offer by October the latest…that’s extreme. Even more than that were the friends, the perspective, and again, the friends I made in the program. It’s weird that I won’t have a summer of forced training workshops to see everyone, but I know that come graduation, all of those people will be waiting for me, cheering me on.
These friends, besides being really the only truly diverse people I know, are smart, driven, and know how to have fun. Just look at this picture below. It’s the future class of CEO’s, I can guarantee it.
