First of all, please accept my apologies for not having posted in a really, really long time. Last week was extremely busy. I worked for about 12 hours giving campus tours and representing UR at a local college fair. I also had a test and a quiz and pile of homework. To top it all off, I was sick with a cold. Just as I was starting to get healthy, a nasty stomach virus knocked me out for the better part of this weekend. I’m back to normal today, though, and I’m hoping that I’ll be healthy for the rest of the year so that I can enjoy the spring that hasn’t quite made it to Rochester yet. It’s been snowing for the past four or five days in a row! The seasons have been so backwards this year – we’ve had a white Easter and a green Christmas.
On to the point of this post – my summer plans. I decided about a week and a half ago to take a job with IBM. I’ll be a member of what IBM calls a “Speed Team,” a group of six interns that spends an entire summer overhauling a mission-critical component of the business. We’ll be working on the automation of the dice, sort, and pick process for MPWs (multi-project wafers).
I was on another Speed Team two summers ago, and it was a very positive experience for three reasons. Speed Teams at IBM have a lot of executive visibility – we often had meetings with managers three levels above us during which we had to present, with metrics, our methodology and progress. It gave a sense of importance to our work. Secondly, there was never a shortage of things to tackle. I am the kind of person that needs to be kept busy and to have two or three projects going at once so that if one stalls then I can move on and come back to it laster. Lastly, it was a blast to be in a room with only other interns. We had our own lounge/meeting space, and could shout to each other over the cube walls if we had questions. I’m hoping that this summer will be just as rewarding.
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