Hi Amanda,
I wanted to write you a genuine
thank you letter to conclude my internship but this thank you extends far
beyond my internship. When I first got the chance to really get to know you I
was in a pretty rough place in my life and things just weren’t going that well
for me. Honestly I wanted to quit college, it wasn’t that I was a bad student
but I wasn’t motivated. If I’m honest I just wasn’t getting the university
experience that I wanted. That was about two years ago now. You needed help
with ASU101 and for some reason the opportunity to teach a class called to me.
As I went through that semester it pulled me out of that dark slump I was in
and by the end I was hired on as your student worker. I stayed around and
helped with the online section of ASU101 in the Spring and it was fun but I
loved teaching in person so much more. So when summer came and you were busy
with Yali we agreed I would take on ASU101. Now I know only because you told me
that you wish you could have given me more guidance but you were busy and I
managed in the end I hope you are satisfied with what I delivered initially. As
much as I loved teaching ASU101 I never knew how much my students appreciated me
or how much I meant to them in shaping some of their college decisions until
the Passport event in Tempe for the student organizations. I went to it for my
brother who is a freshman and as I was walking back to grab the shuttle to take
it home I was talking about my Mustang and out of the shadows a guy said my
name. He was a student from my first class, honestly my favorite student
because he took the troublemaker of my class in as a friend and straightened
him out. I felt bad for him as that class was wrapping up because he was unsure
how to pay for school. He recalled something I said to my class about getting
creative and not giving up when the cards seem stacked against you. He ran with
it and found a fulltime job with parking and now gets the tuition waiver. Turns
out I help with retention too LOL. Taking on this internship was an honor and
in that time my position in the college has grown and you were a part of that.
So for everything and everything that’s still to come, thank you!
Sincerely,
Anthony
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