{"id":16553,"date":"2020-12-07T09:00:35","date_gmt":"2020-12-07T14:00:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/?p=16553"},"modified":"2020-11-24T11:10:02","modified_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:10:02","slug":"virtual-internship-experience-at-the-vegetarian-resource-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/2020\/12\/07\/virtual-internship-experience-at-the-vegetarian-resource-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Virtual Internship Experience at The Vegetarian Resource Group"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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By\nKatelynn Budzich, VRG Intern<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As\nan Environmental & Sustainability Studies minor at Loyola University Maryland,\na requirement is to complete a capstone project. I was excited about this\ncourse because it would be an opportunity to use what I have learned in my\nclasses, as well as, participate in something related to my interests in\nenvironmental causes. I first came across an internship position at The\nVegetarian Resource Group from a list of places my professor (who runs the\nminor) sent out. The list included some environmental focused work\nopportunities. However, the one that stood out to me was The Vegetarian Resource\nGroup. My two passions in life are food and writing. Thus, The VRG was a\nperfect amalgamation of the two.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     All of the experiences I read online that\nother interns had, sounded amazing, so I was excited to potentially find myself\ndoing similar work. However, as an intern during the Fall 2020 semester of my\nsenior year, COVID-19 became a reality and changed what my internship\nexperience at The Vegetarian Resource Group would look like. There were certain\nprojects that I could no longer complete, seeing that everything was now\nvirtual and had to be catered to online work. At first, I was worried I would\nmiss out on some great opportunities, yet, after filling out my project\nschedule, I knew I was going to enjoy my time at The Vegetarian Resource Group\nbecause despite restrictions, all of the projects were right up my alley and\nseemed like great learning experiences. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     I worked on many projects related to my\nlove of food and major in marketing. One article included reviewing a local\nrestaurant in Maryland\nthat serves vegan food. I chose a restaurant located in a food hall that my\nfriends and I always go to. Every time I am there, I always pass over the vegan\nrestaurant, but I am glad I finally had an excuse to try the food at that stall\nbecause it was delicious. After seeing what I ordered, some of my friends who\nare not vegan or vegetarian even ordered food from there when we went to the\nfood hall again. This article was a great moment for myself as well as the\npeople around me to better understand the possibilities of vegan food and how\ngreat the quality can be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     I was also tasked with completing a book\nreview that combined business lessons, veganism, and social responsibility.\nThis project was a breath of fresh air because it was the one time in my day\nwhere I didn\u2019t have to look at a screen and I could enjoy a good book. The book\ngave a lot of great tips on how to start and run a business that will stay with\nme beyond my time at The Vegetarian Resource Group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Some other fun projects I worked on were\nproduct reviews, an article on differing opinions on vegan commercials, and\ndesigning an advertisement for The Vegetarian Resource Group. The product\nreviews were such a fun experience because I got all of my friends involved and\nwe tried the items together. They all tasted great and afterword, I did a short\nwrite-up on what we sampled. Next, when I was working on creating an article\nthat shared vegans\u2019, vegetarians\u2019, and non-vegetarians\u2019 opinions on vegan ads,\nI researched vegan commercials and contacted other interns and volunteers to\nparticipate, which was a great experience gathering and working with other\nvolunteers from The VRG. I then asked all of the volunteers to watch the\ncommercials and send back to me what they thought about them from the\nperspective of people with different eating habits, which I composed into an\narticle. One more really fun project I completed was designing an advertisement\nto join The Vegetarian Resource Group. This was an opportunity where I could\nuse some of my marketing skills and be creative, which I really enjoyed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

     My internship at The Vegetarian Resource\nGroup was an amazing opportunity, especially during such a turbulent time. I\nhave recently found an interest in going into the editorial or publishing industry\nafter I graduate college, so my time at The Vegetarian Resource Group was a\nperfect introduction into that world. I learned so much about healthy eating,\nimproved my writing abilities, and had the chance to put my marketing knowledge\nto use. Thank you to everyone I have worked with. The work I did and my time at\nThe VRG made a disrupted senior year into a very memorable one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For information on VRG internships, see: https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/student\/index.php<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

To donate to The Vegetarian Resource Group, visit: vrg.org\/donate<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Katelynn Budzich, VRG Intern As an Environmental & Sustainability Studies minor at Loyola University Maryland, a requirement is to complete a capstone project. I was excited about this course because it would be an opportunity to use what I have learned in my classes, as well as, participate in something related to my interests […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16553"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16555,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16553\/revisions\/16555"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vrg.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}