of diplomas, internships, and long trips
This is going to a brief (for me at least) entry as that I need to leave for the airport in a few hours but felt a need to update the 'ol LJ.
I managed to survive this semester so I now have an associates degree in electrical computer engineering technology. I didn't go to the graduation (bit overkill for an associates degree), so they should send it to me in the mail some time over the summer. My grades aren't great (though certainly not bad), but hell, I've made it though the worst part now. And... no more calculus!!!!
I've started my internship this summer. I had less than 48 hours turn around time from the end of my last final to when I arrived at the plant in ohio where the company I'm interning for is based out of. I had three days to learn their entire dc motor production line. My job is to go china and get the chinese dc motor line up and running. For the most part, it just seems to be me on this project. Everyone else directly involved with this project has left the company as far as I can tell (at least on the US side of the fence). The chinese have the ac motors down just fine, but the dc motor line needs a lot of work. Super intern to the rescue! It's a great opportunity and a helluva lot more involved than any normal internship so I'm thankful for the opportunity, but it's a damned intimidating project.
My schedule got juggled around and I'm leaving for china tomorow... in about 5 hours to be exact. I've done the long distance travel thing before, but this is a bit different. I'm nervous but excited. I love traveling, exploring, and seeing new places more than just about anything in the world. I'll be flying in to Hong Kong tomorrow, staying in a obscenely nice hotel somebody like me has no business being in, taking a ferry up the river then heading off to guangzhou. I'll miss the olympics by a week or two, but I'm hoping I can see some other areas of china while I'm there.
I'm going to setup a flickr (I think that is what it's called) or photobucket to dump the massive amount of pics I plan on taking. I'm debating starting a separate blog just for this trip, but I'm undecided at this point. Since the company I'm interning for was kind enough to loan me a laptop, I should be on aim and skype (my new skype name bmoody910) all summer.
P.S. Am I the only amused that the LJ spell check considers "blog" a mispelled word?
I managed to survive this semester so I now have an associates degree in electrical computer engineering technology. I didn't go to the graduation (bit overkill for an associates degree), so they should send it to me in the mail some time over the summer. My grades aren't great (though certainly not bad), but hell, I've made it though the worst part now. And... no more calculus!!!!
I've started my internship this summer. I had less than 48 hours turn around time from the end of my last final to when I arrived at the plant in ohio where the company I'm interning for is based out of. I had three days to learn their entire dc motor production line. My job is to go china and get the chinese dc motor line up and running. For the most part, it just seems to be me on this project. Everyone else directly involved with this project has left the company as far as I can tell (at least on the US side of the fence). The chinese have the ac motors down just fine, but the dc motor line needs a lot of work. Super intern to the rescue! It's a great opportunity and a helluva lot more involved than any normal internship so I'm thankful for the opportunity, but it's a damned intimidating project.
My schedule got juggled around and I'm leaving for china tomorow... in about 5 hours to be exact. I've done the long distance travel thing before, but this is a bit different. I'm nervous but excited. I love traveling, exploring, and seeing new places more than just about anything in the world. I'll be flying in to Hong Kong tomorrow, staying in a obscenely nice hotel somebody like me has no business being in, taking a ferry up the river then heading off to guangzhou. I'll miss the olympics by a week or two, but I'm hoping I can see some other areas of china while I'm there.
I'm going to setup a flickr (I think that is what it's called) or photobucket to dump the massive amount of pics I plan on taking. I'm debating starting a separate blog just for this trip, but I'm undecided at this point. Since the company I'm interning for was kind enough to loan me a laptop, I should be on aim and skype (my new skype name bmoody910) all summer.
P.S. Am I the only amused that the LJ spell check considers "blog" a mispelled word?