getting to wake up right before the job starts and right after the job ends being immediately free to do whatever I wanted to without worrying about transport. We also got to choose when to have our lunch break, I tended to have mine after a midday meeting. There were also intern socials arranged at the end of Fridays and sometimes I would socialize with the other interns outside of work hours. We would talk and play games such as hangman and some other online flash games during these socials. Outside of work I tried to get out of the house often. Due to COVID, there really wasn’t much to do, so I tended to go on walks often and occasionally go to the local cafe. I have also tried to keep in touch with my college friends, either through video calls or online video games like the Wadham Minecraft server. Lasting Impressions I think that one of the biggest things the internship has done for me is to provide exposure to software engineering. I applied to this internship out of curiosity on what a career in software engineering would look like and really, I had no idea what it entailed. The internship has answered a lot of my questions about the field, and as a result of it, I have figured out that I really enjoy software engineering. I decided to apply to Oxford for a conventional engineering degree because I love solving problems and constructing things and I have learnt that Software Engineering utilizes a lot of problem-solving as well. Now I am definitely considering software engineering as one of the major options for my career in the future. The internship has also given me many skills relevant to software engineering that I feel are applicable with other programming jobs or in other fields and I have definitely gained a lot by having an additional programming language with experience to add to my CV. Outside of that, I have also enjoyed working with the other developers during my internship. My supervisor was very friendly and would often provide me with help and there were other interns in the same boat as me, so I was able to have plenty of discussions with them. There were also many after-work socials planned in so it wasn’t always just work in the company.
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