1. One candidate came to give a presentation as part of the interview for a full time opening in the group I am interning in. That guy was pulling everything together for a demo of his circuits he worked on during PhD before the presentation in the meeting room. Paul came in and got a little bit surprised, “Oh, you’ve got a demo?”
“Yeah. Is it OK?” That guy asked.
“As long as you are not selling us anything…” Paul answered.
2. During lunch I told people that I am planning to go to Yosemite National Park near San Francisco at the beginning of September. Bruce said, “San Francisco is my favorite city. Its China town is so nice.”
I was like, “San Francisco is your favorite city because of its China Town? You should have gone to China…”
3. Bruce told us he had to give his wife his house and company for the divorce. I was like, “Bruce, it was so lucky to be your wife…”
4. Here are two pieces between my professor and me that happened one year ago.
4.1 In a meeting, my professor asked me, “So, are you saying “Method A” can give good result, but “Method B” will mess up the result?” I know the result for method B is bad, but I am not sure how bad can be called “messed up”, so I was like, “Errr… I think that depends on the definition of ‘mess up’…”
4.2 My professor was discussing with me about one issue we were trying to handle a while ago. He asked me, “So what did we end up doing about that problem?”
I was like, “Oh, we ended up forgetting about it…”
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Part of the interns took a photo together last Tuesday marking the departures of more and more interns in near future and a nice summer. I like the smiles.