Meramec State Park, Working in the Field.

The first three days of my internship at Meramec state park have been different than I expected. The first day, I got a tour of the park from my boss Mr.Fink. The second half of the day I loaded up some wood with one…

Brain Strain

As I solve harder and harder problems my brain can get fried. The problem solving can be fun, but I can’t sit and code for more than an hour and a half at a time without it taking a mental toll. I need to…

CodeAbbey Vs Discovery

CodeAbbey is significently harder than Discovery. I really just learned the consepts in Discovery while CodeAbbey is testing me on what I know. The problem solving aspect requires critical thinking. Luckly both were Python 3 so I didnt have to change what I already…

Pem racing days 13-14

day 13- That day I worked in the front office again with Taylor. I learned about the crash of their old website called quick books. The crash of this website screwed up their whole system and made everything hard to manage. I also learned…

Week Four

My time at Freeport draws to a close today and so everything is wrapping up. The sprint finished Wednesday and so we had a meeting then to analyze the data for the team’s performance and plan for this next sprint. I’ve really learned a…

Week 3: Fred Weber and New Frontier Materials Continued

On Monday I spent the whole day researching competitors for a quarry in Texas and compiling the data in a spreadsheet. On Tuesday I went with Ken Kampman to the Hannibal Limestone Strip Mine. We spent the day 400 feet underground setting metal pinsk…

Pem racing days 11-12

day 11: worked in the assembly room all morning talking to the workers in there about their other jobs and how much they work. After Lunch I was moved around the shop basically all day based on where I was needed. day 12: I…

Pem Racing days 9-10

day9: I spent the morning working on the cnc machine, and helped with shipping in the afternoon. I learned more about my coworkers and was talking to them a bit more about their lives and interests. day10: On the tenth day of my internship…

Agile Structure and Week Three

With software development, there are basically two methodologies, waterfall, and Agile. In waterfall (also known as the linear-sequential life cycle model), every part of a project relies on a previous part of the project; everything builds on top of something else, like a cascade…

last couple weeks

For the last couple weeks I’ve been in and out of departments, shadowing one or two people a day. Last week I spent most of the week in business meetings with  CFO and CEO  and other owners  of the company.  I got to go…