Goodbye Note from Intern Alecia

The summer before my senior year I knew that I wanted both a job and an internship, little did I know that they would both be coming from the same place. I began babysitting for SMS and shortly after took an internship position to run the social media for SMS. My first day of interning I put on some nice clothes, packed a lunch and showed up 30 minutes early to Amanda’s house. Fast-forward to a year later and today I came running into Amanda’s house in the clothes I slept in with a minute to spare, knowing that she would feed me. While I became more comfortable in the office, Amanda also became more comfortable trusting me to do a lot in the office. What started off as the simple task of running the social media for SMS quickly turned into posting on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, creating a YouTube account, writing press releases, creating and delivering promotional packages, managing our website and eventually creating an entirely new website. What I thought was just going to be a quick summer internship turned into an awesome learning experience and a lasting friendship. While my time interning is over I luckily don’t have to say goodbye to my favorite families quite yet (shout out to the Joseph family and the Thomas family- I love your kiddos), because I’ll still be babysitting for SMS for the time being.

I owe so much to Amanda and the incredible company that she has created. For starters, my resume is full of some incredible things. How many people can say that they created a website for a company with over 1,000 clients visiting it weekly? More importantly, I gained so much more than what meets the eye. Amanda is one of my best friends and so are the other interns that I was lucky enough to meet. Going into this internship I never would have expected that my boss would become someone I hung out with on the weekends and that work would become a place that I looked forward to going. Sometimes it’s hard to understand what all goes into running SMS since Amanda does so seamlessly, but she actually works all hours of the day to give everyone that impression. At times I think all of her hard work goes unnoticed, so I just wanted to take this chance to say thank you to Amanda for giving me the most fun and flexible job I ever could have imagined having during my college years. You are one killer #GirlBoss and I can’t wait to see what the future holds for SMS.