Midpoint Event

On Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Connecticut, for our co-op Midpoint Event. It was a nice trip and it was great to see everyone again! It's funny how those three days of connecting in the beginning of our co-op made lasting friendships, we all continue to communicate with an instant messaging program between Unilever. At the Trumbull facility, we took a tour of research and development (R&D), which was really cool! I've always swayed away from R&D as a career, because I'm not sure if I want to be stuck in a lab all day running experiments. However, we got to see process research which was so cool! Of course they have to research how they're going to make the product on a large scale, and those researchers also get to travel a lot to plants and perform trial runs. So the idea of R&D has definitely opened back up for me. On Wednesday we traveled out to Clinton, CT, and got to tour the original Pond's factory. It was awesome! I'm so used to the ice cream world, smaller, hand packed, older, so seeing the automated lines, one even had a robot(!), was amazing! At the end of the day we practiced our presentations for the final event which will be in June. Practice most certainly makes perfect and I definitely need to get my presentation perfected for when it counts :)