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The Google Chronicles: Life of a Google Intern (Part 3) May 31, 2011

Welp, I have officially finished up my first two weeks at Google! I wish I could have posted an entry a bit before now to somewhat break up the journey between my last post and now, but unfortunately these couple of weeks have just been incredibly busy — in a good way. Hopefully I’ll be be able to summarize all that has happened in a concise manner without sacrificing the details. You’ll most likely notice a jumpier writing style this time around, too, simply to help cut down on the amount of content, but I’m sure no one will contest to that. Additionally, seeing as there’s still just way too much to fit into one post, in regards to both reading and writing, I’ll be splitting this into a couple posts. So on to the first portion!

So I finished up final exams a few weeks back. I could tell it was slightly more difficult to focus than usual, knowing that my internship was just around the corner. I was also trying to learn Linux as well, since Google works almost entirely on Linux these days. But of course I didn’t want to waste an entire semester of hard work just to do poorly on the final exams (the majority of which constituted at least a quarter of my final grade), so I eventually gained enough motivation to sit down and just get it done. My first two finals were unfortunately scheduled for 7:45 in the morning on the first exam days back-to-back, which also happened to be what I considered my two most difficult exams. While that was annoying, it was admittedly nice to get them out of the way so that I could better focus on my remaining exams. (more…)