I started an internship with IU Health this week, and I must say it has been a rough couple of days. I felt so sick on my first day that I couldn't focus on anything but trying not to toss my cookies. Luckily, I didn't have to work very much on the first day. The other two interns, Bridget and Christin, who have been in the office for 2 weeks already, showed me around the office and hospital. I got to know them and my supervisor. I have a feeling we're going to make a great team.

I was out sick the second and third day. I felt so bad.

Thursday and Friday, we sorted out how Bridget, Christin, and I will bring our skills together to essentially design new hospital rooms for IU Methodist. They will be doing more of the research side of the project while I'll be implementing the data into designs. Since I can't really design much before the research is done, I'll be helping with that, too.

So far, I've been given 12 paint colors that are "standards" of IU Health's new hospital rooms, and it's my job to figure out what patients respond to the best and perceive as "luxurious." I've been creating color palettes with the paint sample colors, and I'll use them next week--hopefully--to ask patients' which ones they like or don't like.

I'm beyond excited for this amazing opportunity, and I can't wait to see how it all plays out!