Nine Weeks at GLMP

Okay, first week down. I won't lie — I was nervous walking in Monday morning, the kind of nervous where you triple-check you have your bag and still feel like you're forgetting something. Everything was new: the people, the acronyms (what even is a PRODCON), the pace. I spent most of the week just absorbing — doing research for CINEPROD EXPO 2027 and LogiSYM, then getting handed my first real task by midweek: pubmats and captions for AIRTECH 2026. Closed the week out with more PRODCON research. Nothing groundbreaking yet, but everyone was genuinely welcoming, and that made the "I have no idea what I'm doing" feeling a lot less scary. 38 hours in the books.

This week is when it started feeling real. I kept working on AIRTECH assets and captions, but the thing that actually got me excited was getting pulled into web development — contributing ideas and builds for the IDM 2026 and IPFS 2026 event sites. I did not expect to be trusted with that so early, and honestly I think I said "wait, really?" out loud when I was told. Also picked up LogiSYM adjustments and HVAC/R feedback along the way. It was a lot, but the good kind of a lot. 40 hours.

Somewhere around this week, things stopped feeling like a list of one-off tasks and started feeling like actual projects I owned. LogiSYM adjustments and IDM web development kept going, AMES got added to my plate, and by Friday I was producing AMES pub materials too. Juggling that many things at once was a little stressful if I'm being honest, but there was also something satisfying about it — like I was finally getting the hang of moving between accounts without losing my footing. 35 hours.

This was a genuinely demanding week and I'm not going to pretend otherwise. On top of LogiSYM and IDM, I started sourcing event inspiration and building out content planning for a brand new account, FlowTech, then moved into HSFS content later on. There were a few moments where I just stared at my to-do list and took a breath before diving back in. But by the end of the week I felt proud — not because it was easy, but because I figured out how to prioritize instead of panicking. 40 hours, and I felt every one of them.

New kind of task this week: my first post-event report, for PHILCON MANILA. It was a strange shift — instead of building toward something, I was looking back at an event that already happened and pulling it apart to see what worked. Alongside that I kept up AirTech adjustments, IDM web development, and HSFS content and pubmats, plus more AMES pubmat work. Also — and I have to mention this — I got assigned to screenshot around 500 posts across several platforms for that report. I tried, got about a third of the way through, and finally asked my coworker if I could pass on it. That wasn't an easy thing to say out loud as an intern, but I'm glad I did. 40 hours.

Kept the momentum going on AirTech, IDM, and HSFS, and picked up LogiSYM publication work too. But the thing I actually remember from this week isn't a task — it's getting told I had to stay until 6 PM instead of my usual 5, with basically no warning. My parents pick me up, so that threw off their whole afternoon too. My mom ended up waiting almost an hour at the office for me. Not going to lie, that one stung a little. Still finished the week strong though. 38 hours.

Honestly? A pretty normal week, in the best way. AirTech, IDM, HSFS, LogiSYM publications — all things I now know how to do without much hand-holding — plus I picked up event brochure work partway through. It's a strange milestone when a workload that used to overwhelm you starts to just feel like Tuesday. 39 hours, and for once I didn't feel like I was drowning by Friday.

Second-to-last full week, and I could feel it. Kept working across AirTech, HSFS, LogiSYM, and event brochures, and added media partner sourcing plus early work on PPP Manila. I also had an excused absence on Tuesday, which meant squeezing four days of momentum into what was really a shorter week. Knowing the end was near made me weirdly more focused — I started actively thinking about which projects needed a proper wrap-up instead of just being left mid-air. 28 hours.

Last day. I wasn't ready for how much that would hit me. I only had a Monday left — the rest of the internship had already wound down — and I spent most of it tying off loose ends on AirTech, media partner sourcing, HSFS, LogiSYM, and the event brochures I'd been carrying for weeks. I kept catching myself doing things "for the last time" — last commute with my parents dropping me off, last time logging into the shared drive, last goodbye to people whose desks I'd walked past every single day for two months. Genuinely proud of what I built here, and genuinely going to miss it.