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Diary of a Summer Intern - Luke
July 11, 2012
Hey everyone!
I knew interning with YouTube would be an extremely enjoyable experience from the start, but after being assigned to work on the live stream for
Lollapalooza
I realized this could easily be the best summer of my life. Between
ACL
,
SXSW
,
Nocturnal
, and many other live music shows, much of my free time at school is spent squished between thousands of sweaty people dancing and yelling the night away. Helping manage and run this YouTube program is much more than a cool project, it’s an opportunity to share one of my deepest passions with people all over the world. Rewind to ten years ago when I would stay up late at night listening to Red Hot Chilli Pepper’s
Scar Tissue
and ask my brother if he knew any “young Kentucky girls” and what a “scarlett draw” was anyway? I can only hope that somewhere in the middle of nowhere, TX, some little kid and his older brother will be tuning in to see RHCP live at Lollapalooza and wondering all the same things.
Aside from working on the Lollapalooza stream and other projects, I’ve been taking time to soak up all the great perks of working at Google. I can’t explain how wonderful it is to be able to walk down the hall to a fridge full of unlimited drinks and a microkitchen stocked with endless snacks, brainstorm project ideas over a game of billiards, and play with beautiful dogs every day I go to work. This past weekend, I joined
over 1,000 ecstatic Googlers
to march down 42nd in San Francisco in the city’s annual
Pride Parade
. What I thought would be a few casual miles of walking and waving erupted into an enormous dance party that would give even the best music fests a run for their money. The energy, love, and happiness that our group exuded is something I will never be able to form into words. I looked around at all my coworkers laughing, dancing, and grinning, and, for one of the first times in my life, hoped I was staring at my future.
-
Luke
Fun Google Fact:
Did you know that the conference rooms at YouTube’s office are named after popular games, memes, and famous YouTube videos? A few of my favorite rooms include
Socially Awkward Penguin
,
More Cowbell
, and
Q*bert
. Our printers are also named after members of the Wu-Tang Clan!
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