{"id":2244,"date":"2020-09-14T16:17:24","date_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:17:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/?p=2244"},"modified":"2020-09-14T16:17:24","modified_gmt":"2020-09-14T16:17:24","slug":"my-2020-summer-internship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/my-2020-summer-internship\/","title":{"rendered":"My 2020 Summer Internship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Hi! My name is Alexis Middleton and I\u2019m a junior studying Agronomy with an International concentration. I also have two minors: Food and Agribusiness Management &amp; Ag Systems Management.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last summer, I interned for Winfield United as a Summer Research Technician based out Bismarck, North Dakota. I planted sunflowers, corn, sorghum, and beans for the research and demo plots. I also had the opportunity to mix and spray chemicals. I participated in a field day, drove the Skywalker, soil sampled, tissue sampled, scouted, pounded posts, and learned a lot throughout my summer.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>I chose an internship that would be most unlike what I had done in my past summers. Before last summer, I had never planted or had any exposure to herbicides and fungicides. I was truly pushed out of my comfort zone because I was over 1,200 miles from home doing nothing I had ever done before. My summer resulted in a lot of personal and career growth.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Hi! My name is Alexis Middleton and I\u2019m a junior studying Agronomy with an International concentration. I also have two minors: Food and Agribusiness Management &amp; Ag Systems Management.\u00a0 Last summer, I interned for Winfield United as a Summer Research Technician based out Bismarck, North Dakota. I planted sunflowers, corn, sorghum, and beans for&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogposts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2245,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2244\/revisions\/2245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ag.purdue.edu\/agry\/ambassadorblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}