Monday, March 7, 2011

Matched

Most of our class found out our internship matches a couple of weeks ago. Despite the anxiety leading up to it, I think overall it worked out pretty well for the class. It's always a little difficult because a few people will inevitably end up with projects that weren't necessarily one of their top few choices. I think there were fewer of those situations in our class than usual, probably because both the projects and student interests were pretty diverse this year. In any case, I think the experience is more dependent on who you end up working with and what you make of it than anything else.

I'll be working at Nokia in Finland, which I'm pretty excited about. I've never lived abroad for an extended period of time, so it should be a cool experience.

My classmate Eddie put together this map of how our internships are distributed geographically. There will be 10 of us in Europe, so I'm sure we'll take advantage of that and take some weekend trips together. I've been to Europe a couple of times, but there's a lot I haven't yet seen.

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Also, I think admissions decisions for the new class go out this week. I remember how exciting it was to find out that I got in. Congrats to the class of 2013!