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As some of you may know, I'm interning in the web design/programming department of my school. It's a lot of fun, it's pretty relaxed, I'm learning a lot, pretty much everything an internship should be (besides the pay but I digress).
Today, the CIO was visiting to help one of my mentors with a project. Mentor was having a problem with his code and CIO is apparently a master programmer, and since he'd heard about me interning there, he invited me along to help out.
I'm still learning some of the language used but I understood the logic and processes well enough that I made a couple of suggestions, one he actually used, and I caught a few errors in the program that they had missed (mostly things displaying the wrong numbers and such, minor errors for this kind of program). CIO seemed pretty impressed at how on-the-ball I was about everything despite not knowing the language, and he even bought me lunch.
I'm actually really hoping that after I'm done interning there they'll consider me for a job, it's such a great workplace, and I've already proven myself to be even more competent than one of my mentors despite, again, not knowing the language (he's an older guy who tends to do the "pecking at the keyboard" thing and misspells a lot of words, and he's not very intuitive about database names and whatnot being shorthand for certain words while I am). I'm hoping this encounter with the CIO will help boost my chances, and at the very least, maybe he'll let me use him as a job reference!
Today, the CIO was visiting to help one of my mentors with a project. Mentor was having a problem with his code and CIO is apparently a master programmer, and since he'd heard about me interning there, he invited me along to help out.
I'm still learning some of the language used but I understood the logic and processes well enough that I made a couple of suggestions, one he actually used, and I caught a few errors in the program that they had missed (mostly things displaying the wrong numbers and such, minor errors for this kind of program). CIO seemed pretty impressed at how on-the-ball I was about everything despite not knowing the language, and he even bought me lunch.
I'm actually really hoping that after I'm done interning there they'll consider me for a job, it's such a great workplace, and I've already proven myself to be even more competent than one of my mentors despite, again, not knowing the language (he's an older guy who tends to do the "pecking at the keyboard" thing and misspells a lot of words, and he's not very intuitive about database names and whatnot being shorthand for certain words while I am). I'm hoping this encounter with the CIO will help boost my chances, and at the very least, maybe he'll let me use him as a job reference!
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