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Diary of a Summer Intern - Mirna
July 12, 2011
Hi everyone,
I can’t believe that I’m halfway through my internship; time flies!
Just after my first post went live, I got an invitation to join
Google Serve
, Google’s global week of community service. I signed up thinking it would be fun and indeed it was, as per usual with any Googley event. This year, Google Serve in Munich had a project building and painting benches for a children’s school. We built five benches and painted them with Google colors. I wasn’t really good with the building part, so I preferred to have the role of painting in blue - my favorite color. I had a really good time bonding with my fellow Googlers and I am thankful I had the opportunity to participate and give back to the community.
Munich Googlers painting benches during Google Serve
Munich Googlers with the finished benches
Another piece of good news: I got an invitation to the 2011 Intern Summit that will be held at Google's offices in
Zurich, Switzerland
. Engineering interns from all over Europe, the Middle East and Africa will join their Zurich colleagues for this two-day event, which will include tech talks, workshops, networking sessions and social activities. I’ll be sure to recap the Summit in my future posts, so stay tuned.
Lest you think I’m never at my desk, I’ll share some updates about my actual engineering work on the
CodeSearch project
. The project is going well, and though it’s challenging I’m eager to learn. I’m not only gaining programming skills but also time management, planning and organization skills. I even started to work on a second task for the second half of my internship. My mentor is really a helpful and great advisor. I submitted my mid-term self-evaluation to my mentor—turns out it’s not an easy task to evaluate yourself! Now I’m waiting for an evaluation to be submitted from his side. I’m looking forward to hearing his feedback so that I can identify my weaknesses and strengths and improve my performance during the second half of the internship.
I’m also keeping up-to-date with other Google projects and I feel so lucky to be here during the launch of
Google+
to be one of the initial users. Projects like these, along with everyone who makes them happen in this engineering-driven culture, continue to inspire me.
That’s all for now,
Mirna
Fun Google Fact: Over the last two weeks, Google Munich celebrated two events I’ve never heard of, but of course, Google is full of surprises like that. The first one was
Bavarian
Day where I enjoyed traditional Bavarian food like
Schweinsbraten
(roasted pork),
Wurstsalat
(marinated cold sausage cut in thin slices) and
Kartoffelsalat
. The second event was Asian week and I tried a lot of new Asian cuisine that I really liked! Who knew I would master chopsticks in Germany!
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