Big Presentation, Bold Ideas

 February 27 ,2026

Day 5 — Wrapping Up the Week Before the Big Presentation

    It is hard to believe we are already five days into our OJT. The days have been going by faster than I expected, and today was no different. Most of what we did revolved around finalizing preparations for our upcoming design presentation of the Document Management System, or DMS, that we are building for the Engineering Department. A lot of the afternoon was spent reviewing the design mockups we had been putting together over the past few days, making sure everything looked presentable and that we could actually explain our design decisions clearly once we were in front of the department.

    Aside from the presentation prep, I also spent some time at the office helping out with smaller tasks — the usual stuff like assisting with document requests and making myself useful around the MIS area. Nothing too demanding, which honestly gave me more mental space to think about the DMS project and what we still needed to refine before we stood in front of actual engineers and faculty and walked them through what we had come up with.

What I am realizing more and more is that the project is the real heart of this internship. The daily office tasks keep me busy, but the DMS is where I am actually learning something deeper — how to design systems with real users in mind, how to think about what a department actually needs versus what looks good on paper, and how to work with a small team under a real deadline. May 15 is not that far away. Today was a reminder to keep pushing.

Worked well,
Laurence Ayo

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