So You Want to Be a Programming Intern, Part 1: Bullets

[Pictured, from left to right: Josh, Grace, Ingrid, Julian, Shane]
Let me let you in on a rather shameful secret: up until my senior year of college, that “Proficient in Microsoft Office” bullet on my resume meant to convey my computer literacy? Not true. I used two pieces of software: TextEdit and WordPress.
You know who could back up that bullet? Our interns. But, given that they know Python, Objective-C, BASIC, LISP, LaTeX, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, MATLAB, UnityScript, Ruby, Java, C, C++, C#, Bash and and and… there is no way it would make the resume-worthy cut.
In part one of our getting-to-know-us series, interns Josh, Grace, Ingrid, Julian, and Shane give you some bullets of a different sort.
The questions:
1. Where do you go to school?
2. What do you study?
3. Give us a unique/random fact of your choosing.
The answers:
- Stanford University
- I’m still deciding on a major, but I know for sure I’m really excited about Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science, and also possibly Bioengineering.
- I like performing in circus shows. My favorite trick is juggling torches, while balancing on a rolling globe and reciting 100 digits of pi.
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
- Computer Science
- One of my hobbies is that I maintain a tropical fish aquarium with live plants.
- Olin College of Engineering
- Since I just completed my freshman year, I haven’t really decided what I want to major in, though I’m pretty sure that it will involve Computer Science and perhaps some Design.
- I spilled glowing goo on my laptop senior year during a chemistry class. It was really embarrassing AND it was filmed so I got to relive it over and over…
- Olin College of Engineering
- I am studying how to learn, with an emphasis on Computer Science and Design.
- My favorite designer is Bret Victor. If you haven’t, you should watch Inventing on Principle, a fabulous talk about having a powerful ideal motivating your work.
- Olin College of Engineering
- I haven’t declared but I am considering either Electrical and Computer Engineering or Engineering with Computing or Robotics… or maybe Systems, but definitely not BioEngineering (probably).
- For my entire life, I have written the capitol Q incorrectly. Instead of putting the dash in the bottom left side of the circle, I put it in the top right. No one ever told me I was doing it wrong until college. Don’t ask me how, but I believe that it all started because Quailman (yes, from Doug) wore that belt on his head.