"This is your goodbye gift!"
I laughed as my boss handed me over an ice cream of Chicha Morada. As silly as it may sound I was actually grateful, it was a really hot day so it was the perfect gift. I desperately opened and started eating the ice cream with a relief like no other. I couldn't help but feel somewhat melancholic since yesterday was my last day in JJC. I had spent 8 days with a group of people I didn't imagine could fit in such an important job.
There was this mentality in my head that when you had to go to work, your face had to be as serious as possible and that the only thing you had to do was have your eyes fixed on the screen, signing papers, attending meetings, regulating steps, how could I have been so wrong? In those eight days, I have laughed harder than in any other time in my life. My mentality was that engineers and architects had nothing in their minds that weren't numbered. However, these people that I met were cracking jokes, making fools of themselves, telling old stories, they even embarrassed the Chief engineer!
Looking back at the fun times I had in my internship, waking up at 5:30 am didn't sound so bad. When I arrived, they were finishing the 3rd floor underground, on my last day, they were finishing the first underground floor.
I still looked at it with awe, like on my the first day. The amount od calculations and hours that they had spent, I could only imagine. And especially the money! (800milllion dollars!) and that was only the expected value...
Anyway, I learned AutoCad, tried planning a floor, a cup (quite challenging actually) my phone, and a car, I even want to try and plan my current house. I learned about the different areas of a construction, planning, architecture, supervision, quality control, security, etc. Also vocabulary, that maybe is actually slang because I can't find a translation for it.
Nevertheless, although I learned several thing about civil engineering and architecture (only the tip of the iceberg really). I honestly believe that my most important takeaway was that you don't have to really act like an adult when you go to work. Work becomes so much better when you have fun with it, and 10 times more if you love what you do.
I laughed as my boss handed me over an ice cream of Chicha Morada. As silly as it may sound I was actually grateful, it was a really hot day so it was the perfect gift. I desperately opened and started eating the ice cream with a relief like no other. I couldn't help but feel somewhat melancholic since yesterday was my last day in JJC. I had spent 8 days with a group of people I didn't imagine could fit in such an important job.
There was this mentality in my head that when you had to go to work, your face had to be as serious as possible and that the only thing you had to do was have your eyes fixed on the screen, signing papers, attending meetings, regulating steps, how could I have been so wrong? In those eight days, I have laughed harder than in any other time in my life. My mentality was that engineers and architects had nothing in their minds that weren't numbered. However, these people that I met were cracking jokes, making fools of themselves, telling old stories, they even embarrassed the Chief engineer!
Looking back at the fun times I had in my internship, waking up at 5:30 am didn't sound so bad. When I arrived, they were finishing the 3rd floor underground, on my last day, they were finishing the first underground floor.
I still looked at it with awe, like on my the first day. The amount od calculations and hours that they had spent, I could only imagine. And especially the money! (800milllion dollars!) and that was only the expected value...
Anyway, I learned AutoCad, tried planning a floor, a cup (quite challenging actually) my phone, and a car, I even want to try and plan my current house. I learned about the different areas of a construction, planning, architecture, supervision, quality control, security, etc. Also vocabulary, that maybe is actually slang because I can't find a translation for it.
Nevertheless, although I learned several thing about civil engineering and architecture (only the tip of the iceberg really). I honestly believe that my most important takeaway was that you don't have to really act like an adult when you go to work. Work becomes so much better when you have fun with it, and 10 times more if you love what you do.