Post #10 - Final Reflection

I have been working here at NC State for a total of 201 hours (35 Days/2 Months). I came here hoping to learn how to work in a UNIX environment, but I learned much more than that. Not only did I learn how to navigate through a UNIX/Linux operating system, I learned how to program in Python, Graphviz, C, and Bash Script. I'm sure that there is no way that I would have learned this stuff if I had taken another internship. It is true that this internship didn't have many perks as opposed to many other internships. Sarat told me that there is a trade off, "You can do what you love for little reward, or you can settle for a job you won't enjoy as much that has more reward." I got the opportunity to work in a university lab with a bunch of graduate students, doing real programming work. Not many high school students can say that.

In a nutshell: I have enjoyed working here at NC State with Aishwarya, Kevin, Sarat and Dr. DeCarolis. I have learned a lot; the things that I have learned here will definitely help with school, college and future job opportunities.