Second Week at OHSU

My second week at OHSU was a lot like my first week but a little less overwhelming. I am now working in a new building because my supervisor's division moved from one building to another one. The biggest thing I learned with helping my supervisor move was hoe much reading I have ahead of me in life. We packed and moved at least twenty full size boxes with textbooks and other types of professional publishes. Anyways, I got to know the other people in the division a little bit better this week. It is really easy to get to know people as everyone is very friendly and likes to have small talk with each other throughout the day. The funny thing about my supervisor's division is that the secretary is pretty much the second in command. She helps out with everything and knows what everyone is doing at all times and even has to write off permission for some people to do certain things around the office.
I have been doing a lot of the same things that I was doing my first week as far as my personal tasks go. I have been doing a lot of market research on different types of MBA and MS programs in Healthcare Management all around the country. Anything that I find that is important, I put into a word document and later I will be making a presentation out of all the information I collect and summarizing it all up for my supervisor and the head of the division. The work that I am doing is not very difficult, it is just tedious and time consuming. My supervisor gives me the perfect amount of direction so that I know what I am doing and looking for but doesn't hover over my work and interfere to make sure I am doing everything correctly.
I usually check in with Dr. Sakaguchi in the morning when I arrive and talk with him about what I will be doing and working on for the day and then usually don't see him again until we eat lunch together. At lunch we usually talk about what I have found during the morning and then usually have small talk about whatever we want to talk about. At the end of the day I always check in with Dr. Sakaguchi one last time to discuss what I found in the afternoon and that pretty much is all the time that I spend with my supervisor. This next week I expect that I will be doing a lot less research and be working more on putting together a presentation on what I have found. Dr. Sakaguchi told me he has a few programs that he will teach me how to use that are better then powerpoint so I am looking forward to learning about the new programs over the next few days!