Week 4: Middle Period

I’m almost … halfway done? Seriously, it feels like I started yesterday. Either way, big week this week.

For context, here’s a little bit more about my assignment. I’m on what they call the Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) team in our Hyperautomation & AI (HAI)…

Week 1: First Impressions

Today marks the end of my first week at my first ever (official) internship. I’m first greeted by a cohort of 37 other interns, most of which are from New Jersey and are incoming juniors/seniors (just like me!). I was surprised by how social everyone was, and the complete normalcy…

Week 3: Fluff

Officially done with Week 3 of my software engineering internship at Merck! It could be because I’m writing this entry a week later than I was supposed to, or that we had our first PAID DAY OFF on Wednesday, or that I came in super late on Thursday because of my miscalculation on train departures, or…

Week 2: Moving the Needle

Just wrapping up week 2 of my software engineering internship at Merck! In case you didn’t notice, this week’s story title is credited to last week’s vocabulary digest.

On Monday, I made my first contribution to our daily scrum call. Despite the slight…