Internship Blog: Day 30

Today is work day number 30. My new seat is actually very cold because it is right next to the AC. However, everywhere else surrounding my seat is exceptionally warm.

Anyhow, I have pretty much finished with the design of the hotel and it is now currently being rendered in a 3D program by the people who turn the 2D drawings into 3D ones.

I arrived to work late today (and yesterday for the record). It wasn’t too bad, only by about 20 minutes. It is now 9:45am and in the past 25 minutes that I’ve been here, I have restarted my computer, ate some bread, and checked my email. I can feel like it will be a productive day.

I finally met the other interns yesterday too. There are three of them and they are all attending Syracuse. One of them just finished his sophomore year and the other two just finished their junior years. They seem pretty cool.

One of the coworkers was waiting for some stuff to print and saw a photo of Padua on my computer (I have random photos as my desktop wallpaper and Mr. Puds makes several appearances) since my desk is right next to the printers. His reaction to the photo was pretty funny. It was like a mix between shock and amusement.

Five minutes until lunch.

Man, it’s literally 15 degrees colder in my cubicle than it is in the printer cubicle right next to mine. Ridunkulous.

I spent the past hour browsing laptops. Man, browsing laptops is tough—especially with a price limit that I would prefer not to go over (okay, well more so my dad doesn’t want to go over). Basically trying to get a laptop with a decent to good processer (Intel’s i7 or i5), a discrete graphics card, and 4gb of RAM. There’s this one Lenovo that has all of those and more and has very good specs, but according to a lot of forums and such, it has a pretty big problem with the monitors that makes me kind of worry about purchasing this laptop—especially an online purchase. Then, there’s a Toshiba laptop that has a slightly better processer, and the hard drive and graphics cards aren’t that much worse and it’s cheaper. But it’s too big to fit in the backpack I have—so frustrating. The smaller version of that Toshiba laptop will be more expensive than the Lenovo one, though not by too much.

Actually, now the favor has swung back towards Toshiba and for the more expensive smaller Toshiba. I just noticed that the laptop also includes an extra year of warranty for free. The processor is faster and the graphics and hard drive is essentially the same. Only the RAM is slightly slower, but still 4GB.

Saw the current progress of the digital 3D version of the building I designed upstairs. It looks pretty cool I guess. I do feel sorry for the guy working on that though because I don’t think I did such a good job on the AutoCAD portion of the design.