u/Mindless_Radish4982

Hi, I might be moving away in a few weeks and my room near college Avenue will become available.
This is not a guarantee, but comment and I’ll dm you.

Private room on the Second floor of a two story home, women only. 2 sophomores and 2 grad students.
In unit laundry, driveway (I recommend street parking though). We have a cat.

$650/month, utilities not included, wifi $9/month

I’ve never done a multi-step cooking process before which I know is crazy, but I’m trying now and any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I’m in a wildlife conservation club and we’re doing a bake sale fundraiser in early September once school starts.

Primary product is 5 gallons of lemonade using 10lb of lemons supplemented with 32oz bottled lemon juice. Second candied lemon peels. I will make a strawberry puree to accompany. I’m trying to make it low waste so here’s how I’ll do it.

48hrs before sale:

1. Wash my lemons
2. Slice lemons in half and juice, store juice in quart containers in the fridge
3. Slice peels into preferred size and remove pith
4. Boil the peels 3x replacing water in between
5. Dissolve 2.5 cups sugar into 2.5 cups water
6. Cook lemon slices in the solution until tender
7. Remove from the solution and lay on parchment. Put it in the oven ( to hide from the cat) to dry.
8. Pour the lemon infused sugar syrup into a quart container for later.
9. After a few hours get the peels and coat in granulated sugar. Leave in the off oven for 24 hours to dry

24hrs before sale

1. Move candy peels to an airtight container
2. Take some of the bottled lemon juice and use the infused syrup to make 1 quart of lemonade. Stick it in the freezer.
3. Take strawberries sliced in a quart container. 500g strawberries to 300g sugar. Shake and let sit in fridge overnight.

3hrs before sale

1. Get my squeezed lemon juice and bottle of lemon juice; mix them
2. Take my lemon infused syrup; mix it in. Put this lemonade concentrate back in the fridge.
3. Get the strawberry-sugar quart. Dump in a pan, cook for a few minutes to break down the cellulose and fiber and to thicken a little bit. Pour in a blender. Yay strawberry puree.
4. Put it in a jar
5. Bag the candied peels in little recyclable/compostable paper bags. Put back in an airtight container .

30min before bake sale

1. Bring Strawberry puree and and candied peels to the bake sale have whoever is there set up
2. Grab a friend to come help and bring them back home.
3. Pour lemonade concentrate, infused syrup, and water in the 5 gallon dispenser
4. Both carry it back to the sale

Prices:
8oz lemonade (12oz cup with ice) $3
- Add strawberry puree $1
Candied peels $1 (limited bite size free samples for those genuinely interested)
Monkey bread & chocolate chip cookies $2
Fried Oreos 1 for $3, 2 for $5 (I know it’s insane but we sell out so fast)

I have had a few internships so far and taking initiative has been the hardest part. At the end of each one that is the biggest bit of feedback I’ve gotten.

The first one had written levels with checkpoints and so it felt like there was no room for initiative, but they were the harshest in my report. I asked them what that meant and they said if you see that someone needs help or you see something needs to be done, do it. And yeah, that makes sense.
At my second I tried to implement that. I’d see that nobody had cleaned a feed container or no one had made afternoon enrichment, things like that and I’d do it without being asked, but it always seemed like they wanted me to do something else and that I was prioritizing the wrong stuff. Then in my report they ranked me a 2/5 for initiative.
At the third, I had a lot more freedom from the beginning, but I don’t think I actually took advantage of that. Besides being trusted to work alone, the work I did was the same as the first two. They didn’t do reports that year because we all did well. So I asked a keeper privately if there was anything she’d noticed that I should work on and she said no, I’m doing a great job and she would reach out to the curator if I ever wanted to work there. She said I take initiative, and I was like “do you have an example?” And her example is the one example I remember because in the moment she had said “good job taking initiative” but that was one time in four months.

That was a bit of a context, but irrelevant to the question.
What does initiative look like for interns at your zoo?

Particularly a little kid who’s just super excited and likes to share everything they know, except a lot of what they know isn’t true

I’m living right off college Ave for the summer while I take a couple classes. What are some good places to to study since the Student centers and libraries close early? Is the downstairs of Sojo open?