Week 2 of the internship

This is going well. My supervisor and I get along. I’ve done one of the parts that I was pretty nervous about, and received praise both from my mentor (ie “buddy”) and supervisor for it. It was a phone interview. I know that it’s kosher to discuss the questions that we’re working on, and that it’s not kosher to discuss intermediate results, or personal opinions or impressions of the work in any sort of a broadcast forum. I’m don’t think it’s cool to get in to much detail regarding methodology, or roadblocks here. So, it went well. And I’ll leave it at that. My excel spreadsheet work has been a breeze, though, given that I haven’t done much excel work before, I continuously found myself saying ‘Oh, if I did that, everything would have gone much more smoothly, and been easier to document’, so I have a patchwork of subtly different methodologies. I’ll clean that up on monday and turn it in.

And I like my job. It doesn’t have the burnout inducing anxiety and high that I got in my days of teaching. It’s way more social than I ever found my coding jobs to be. The pay’s pretty good too. My coworkers are very cool. For the most part, it’s a low-key, friendly group of genuine seeming people. I don’t know that I’ve ever had the “well, what if I were to stay with this job for the rest of my life?” thought that lasted into the second week of a job before.

It definitely has its boring and tedious bits (and I won’t even be doing the worst part, referencing, as an intern, though our little exercise in that didn’t seem as horrible as my coworkers made it out to be). This may very well be the first job I’ve put in truly full time hours for two weeks. Wacky. It’s sucking away my time. I’ve correspondingly reduced my default view and subscriptions here. It’d be nice if I had more of a life in chicago, but that’s a project I’ll be working on soon. Besides, I’m only here for another 2-3 months. A subject for another post, I suppose. =)

I’m not married to the job yet, but signs are promising.