This is the final week of externship and I would like to take some time to talk about the things that I am thankful for.
First of all, I would like to thank Dr. Don for suggesting this internship site to me, because I wouldn't have know that this amazing place existed without him. Secondly, I would like to appreciate D'lano for being here with me. Having him by my side made the long days shorter, the piles of work seem easy, and is an all around great friend. Last but not least, Amy. I wouldn't have learned half of what I have if I had not been working so closely with my mentor. She really knows her stuff and I aspire to know my field as well as she knows hers. My computer finally turns on! After carefully picking parts and a bit of troubleshooting, everything is ready to go! One of the skills that I have had to rely heavily on at my internship has been communication. I've been doing my best to keep Amy updated on what I'm doing so that we can divide and conqure. There have been a
This isn't a video of us working on our main projects, but we did spend a loooonnng time sorting all of these hard drives and are still in the process of wiping them. My dad has this saying, "How do you eat an elephant? One bite at a time." That's how all of the challenges at Envirogreen are like. A massive pile of things to sort, catalog, and repair. The only way to make it though is just by taking it one step at a time. Having D'lano and my mentor by my side has been huge help though. They make great conversation and that helps the process of sorting, cataloging, and repairing a few dozen laptops go by faster. When we get that out of the way, we get to do more fun things, so it's good to not have to spend all day doing it alone.
It's only been a few days and I'm already picking up some new skills. The biggest one is just putting a computer together from parts, which is actually a lot easier than I thought it would be. It's almost like legos; things just go in their place without much fuss. I've also learned how to wipe a hard drive, and not by deleting everything, like deep fry the thing. Again, not as hard as it looks in the movies, I just have to push a few buttons, but it's still fun. This picture is of some fancy hard drives that have sensitive data on them. We really nuke these ones!
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