Amritha Kumar

Amritha Kumar

I'm Amritha Kumar and I'm a junior studying psychology. I first heard about ATLAS while scrolling through Handshake for the LAS Career Fair. My client is the Center for Innovation Teaching and Learning (CITL), and I work with Ava Wolf. I work as a Communications Specialist to help promote IFLEX classrooms. IFLEX classrooms are designed to promote active learning and collaboration among students. My job is to share the experiences through interviews, analyses of data, and reports. The last 2 semesters, this entailed interviewing students and faculty who were in IFLEX classrooms. Since we cannot continue the in-person interviews at the moment, I have been focusing on sorting the comments made in the surveys from the past couple years and then creating reports (one for student's comments and one for faculty opinions). These reports summarize and analyze common opinions and themes found from sorting the comments. Communication skills are definitely the biggest take away from this internship. Not just communication with my client in a professional manner, but communicating people's experiences through my writing and communicating what the data entails. Additionally, it's taught me to be responsible. The hours I work are flexible, which means I have to make up my own schedule and stick to it, instead of procrastinating since there is no "deadline". I plan on obtaining my PhD in Psychology and pursuing the research side of it. I've always been interested in forensic psychology, however I am keeping my options open. And just a fun fact - legally my middle name was "Y" until I was 13 because my dad made a mistake on my birth certificate. It's been changed though! 

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