The Fishbowl

Integrated Networking Structures

1. Structure
Integrated: with various parts or aspects linked or coordinated
Networking: the action or process of interacting with others to exchange information and develop professional or social contacts
Structures: the arrangement of and relations between the parts or elements of something complex

2. Word pool
Integrated: blended, unified, united, consolidated, joined, combined, merged, fused, meshed, coherent
Networking: connect, web, grid, matrix, mesh, system, complex, maze, tangle, interact, exchange
Structures: organize, form, formation, shape, composition, anatomy, arrange, design, order, assemble, construct

3. Re-structure
People blend together to connect and exchange thoughts and ideas to organize their work.

4. Felt-experience
When I transferred to the University of Rhode Island from Community College of Rhode Island I did not think I blended in at all and thought that it would be noticeable I was new, I was wrong. I was able to connect with other students and learn more about the school and what goes on here. I formed friendships and work relationships through the experiences the business school gave me.

5. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Transferred/noticeable/experiences
Building/improvement/effectively
Unified/interconnected/relationships

6. A/B
Experiences: encounter or undergo (an event or occurrence)
Improvement: a thing that makes something better or is better than something else

7. Word pool
Experiences: undergo, encounter, meet, face, confront, feel, know, sustain, endure, try, adventure
Improvement: advance, development, upgrade, refinement, enhancement, advancement, correction, breakthrough

8. Structure
Encountering new events and obstacles help develop skills and knowledge.

9. Felt-experience
I was lucky enough to get two chances so far to encounter different areas of the professional world through internships. This past spring I interned at Carl Weinberg & Co., which is an accounting firm, as a Tax Intern. I spent all of tax season working on individual and corporate returns. I was able to develop the knowledge I had already gained from the classroom and use it out in the professional environment. Now, I am currently interning at Home Loan Investment Bank as a Commercial Lending Intern. This internship is a mix between finance and accounting. 

10. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Individual/gained/knowledge
Opportunities/existence/critical
Team/peers/develop

11. Insight, understanding, and realization
I have never done anything like this previously before. Doing this individually seems a lot easier, but less impactful, than in a group. But, with other people I was able to learn more about the process. People have different perspectives on how they view and read things. Everyone's knowledge is slightly different as no-ones minds work in the same way. I will gain a different experience than someone else would, even if we are doing the same exact thing.

1. Structure:
Complex: consisting of many different and connected parts
Adaptive: characterized by or given to adaptation
Systems: a set of things working together as parts of a mechanism or an interconnecting network

2. Word Pool:
Complex: compound, composite, complicated, involved, intricate, elaborate, problematic
Adaptive: flexible, elastic, pliable, adjustable, malleable, versatile, conforming
Systems: structure, organization, order, arrangement, network, method, technique

3. Re-structure:
Everyone conforms together to form an involved organization.

4. Felt-experience:
When deciding to transfer to URI, I knew that I wanted to become more involved in my school experience than I was at CCRI. I was able to reach out to different organizations and find two internships through URI. I also conformed more towards acting in a business manner, which I find to be very helpful in networking and the job search.

5. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Carissa: conform/involved/organization
Ben: sophisticated/flexible/process
Jack: complicated/flexible/coordination

6. A/B
Conform: comply with rules, standards, or laws
Coordination: the organization of the different elements of a complex body or activity so as to enable them to work together effectively

7. Word pool
Conform: obey, observe, follow, satisfy, meet, fulfill, uphold, accept, acknowledge, respect
Coordination: focal, harmonization, orchestration, collaboration, planning

8. Structure
In order to collaborate effectively, one must observe others.

9. Felt-experience
In my current internship, I intern in the commercial lending department of an investment bank. I first starting out researching the industry competition on different companies that the bank was considering giving loans out to. They gave me a lot of examples of the industry comps that I was able to observe. I also observed the other members of my department to learn the type of language they used in this department. When working on the industry comps I collaborated with another employee and they helped give me research ideas to write about.

10. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Carissa: researching/examples/helped
Ben: identity/influenced/character
Jack:

11. Insight, understanding, and realization
Like this class, the world itself consists of many different and connected parts. We learn how to adapt and conform to different obstacles that come our way. Things that are seemingly unrelated show how they truly are. If there is one missing piece, the system cant function as a whole.

1. Structure:
Dynamic: (of a process or system) characterized by constant change, activity, or progress
Decision: a conclusion or resolution reached after consideration
Making: essential qualities or ingredients needed for something

2. Word Pool:
Dynamic: active, influential, forceful, changing, powerful, compelling, effective, energetic, aggressive
Decision: resolution, conclusion, settlement, commitment, resolve, choice, option, judgment
Making: qualities, characteristics, capability, building, assembly, creation, invention, composition

3. Re-structure:
The qualities needed to form an accurate or reasonable judgment pertain to the ever changing society.

4. Felt-experience:
When trying to decide what I would major in, my mind was constantly changing. I could never seem to make up my mind. I knew I like science and math a lot in high school, so I was first considering pharmacy. But, after majoring in science for a year I knew that was definitely out of the picture. I had to make my best judgement at something I would be interested in doing as a career. I have always have creative qualities and had recently gotten more into photography around that time. I even landed a few small jobs photography jobs. But, as much as I loved that I knew I still really enjoyed math and had recently learned more about being a business major. Through that and the random accounting class I took for fun over the summer I realized that accounting was what I was really interested in.

5. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Carissa: picture/interested/enjoyed
Ben: influential/outcome/accomplishing
Jack: productive/outcome/building

6. A/B
Influential: having great influence on someone or something
Accomplishing: achieve or complete successfully

7. Word pool
Influential: powerful, authoritative, dominant, controlling, strong, important, leading, distinguished, inspiring
Accomplishing: fulfill, achieve, realize, attain, execute, conclude, finish, score

8. Structure
Someone who has achieved a lot can be very inspiring towards others.

9. Felt-experience
I feel as though the most inspiring person in my life is one of my uncles. I was never close to him when I was young but around the time I was starting jr. high school, we were able to start building the relationship we have now. He was able to work his was up the police ranks and land the position he has now as the captain of his police department. He had to put in a lot of hard work and dedication to get to where he is. I got to see him go through the majority of that transformation. I hope that I will be able to achieve the positions I want in life as he did. He showed me that sometimes it takes many years but it is still possible.

10. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Carissa: building/dedication/transformation
Ben: appreciation/network/ideologies
Jack:

11. Insight, understanding, and realization
This is an effective process to learning the meanings of various topics. I am able to learn how different words can become interrelated. Sometimes it takes some time and gets you thinking deeper. I find it helpful to relate that topic to my own experiences.

1. Structure:
Unique: being the only one of its kind; unlike anything else
Innovative: featuring new methods; advanced and original
Capabilities: the power or ability to do something

2. Word Pool:
Unique: distinctive, individual, special, quirky, isolated, single, unrepeated, exclusive, rare
Innovative: original, new, novel, fresh, unconventional, unfamiliar, inventive, ingenious, modern
Capabilities: ability, capacity, power, potential, competence, proficiency

3. Re-structure:
It is refreshing to find someone with the potential to bring both distinctive and unconventional ways and ideas to the table.

4. Felt-experience:
I took a photography course as an elective about two years ago and it was not at all what I thought it'd be. I thought I would be able to have free realm to shoot whatever I wanted, but we had certain assignments each week and had to follow those topics. In the beginning I really struggled with trying to get the 50 photograph minimum for the topics. I knew I had the potential to make my photographs more distinctive than what they were. I had to step back from the course to look back at what made my individual work unique and realized that it was nature that sparked my ideas. For one assignment in particular, we had to shoot with the alphabet in mind and we couldn’t stage anything. I was able to create the letter "I" from two flat slabs of stone with small rocks surrounding them. I learned that if I framed everything in certain ways I could create letters in unconventional ways.

5. 1/2/3 : 1/2/3 : 1/2/3
Carissa: struggled/individual/sparked
Ben:
Jack: