Keep your eyes open.

Wow, it's been a little while, hasn't it? I only recently was able to set up the internet in my apartment, so now I don't have to hang out at Starbucks every night just to check my emails and, oh gosh, Facebook! It is really convenient to have internet in the apartment now though, because I don't have to worry about walking places to get it (not that it was that far in the first place) or worry about interrupting people when I'm on Skype. I had a Phi Rho E-Board meeting earlier this week on Google Hangout, and I felt bad because there was a woman quietly reading her book right next to me.. I guess if she had been irritated, she would have moved or told me, right?

So I made it through an entire week of my internship! It's been really exciting being on the floor and seeing how engineering work is really done. On the first day, my supervisor wanted me to shadow the lead wiring employees to learn how to read wiring diagrams and schematics, but I got so bored of watching after five hours that they put me to work instead :p. I only got to measure out specific lengths of wire for the rest of the day, but I worked with two other employees so the job went by fast. On the second day, I even got to wire some of the panels! Oh, I guess I should back up a little too. I work with the medium voltage assembly line, and (in my opinion) they get to build the biggest and coolest projects in our plant. Unfortunately, this type of project isn't done frequently, so I probably won't be able to work on anything like it for the rest of the summer, but hey, at least I got to walk into the middle of building it when I got here! Besides learning how to assemble the projects and learn about all the different voltage lines, I have a lot of other projects that involved training programs for the employees and improve communication between the lines and the office. Basically, my job is to make everything easier. I'm normally good at this type of thing, so I'm really excited to dive farther into my assignments. I'll explain more about them as I go along.

Honestly though, my favorite part of the internship so far has been meeting and getting to know the people that I'm working with. There's a couple of guys around my age that work on my line, but most of them are older adults with wives and kids. They all have such unique personalities and they love to joke around with each other while they're working; it's just a really enjoyable setting to be in for me since it's my first "big kid's job." I get along really well with them, and they've been so patient about trying to teach me things that they've been learning about for years. Working like that makes the days go by really fast too!

Once I start going out into the city and doing things, I'll start posting pictures of Portland, too. It's beautiful here :]