- I am an intern for a team at Kaiser Permanente's IT campus in Pleasanton, and my first day was last Thursday. I will continue to visit the campus every Thursday for the rest of the school year to work on a BPM (Business Process Management) project. During my hour session last week, I met a few employees and I learned a little bit about the project I will be working on for the next few months. My job is to do QA (quality assurance) tests on one of Kaiser's processes called Datapower Request Process (DPREQ). To familiarize myself with process building and testing, I will be practicing with IBM's Blueworks Live, an online business process modeler.
- I have been doing a little more reading than usual outside of school. In the past few weeks I've read Albert Camus's The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger, Ralph Waldo Emerson's The American Scholar, Self-Reliance, and Circles, Maimonides's Guide for the Perplexed, and I am currently reading George Eliot's Middlemarch (which might take me a while). I am always in the middle of three or four different readings.
I'm really happy with my progress so far but I realize that it's hard to balance these projects with schoolwork, college applications, work, and sports. Time is valuable and I seem to have hard time managing it. Something I've learned about myself is that I love to work, and I get frustrated when I don't understand something right away or if I feel like my time is being wasted. I've learned that computer science is a very difficult field that requires a comprehensive knowledge of many subjects. I've also learned that I while I love to read, to truly advance I must write—we hear, that we may speak. Our characters are mirrored in our actions rather than in intellect.
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