First Day Of Work

Its now officially summer. This means that working begins. This is the first real adult job I have ever had. I am working for Alcoa as a Mechanical Engineering Intern. Today I learned that orientation is more boring than anything I have ever experienced. I got up at 5:15, drove to Bettendorf, was there for 8 hours listening to endless talks about everything you could ever think of and then I drove back to Iowa City. This is going to be my life this summer.

At orientation we were given a note pad to take notes. Here are the notes I took:

- This may be the most boring day of my life

- It looks like I'm taking notes but I am really practicing my handwriting

- Basically, the Alcoa Business System is the greatest thing to ever happen to anyone ever

- That lady with the sunglasses is a freaking genius

- I didn't get a binder and I don't care if I ever do. A functioning hard hat would be nice though. (they passed out binders and hard hats. My hard hat sucked)

- When you have a dictionary of acronyms you know you have too many acronyms

- Why does the phrase "problem solving" need a logo? Oh, to spice up the power point

-"Impactful". Word or not a word?

-Someone was paid to create logos for all 7 stability tools

-Six minutes to the next break

- It is almost impossible to stay awake

-[picture of my hard hat]

-[picture of a tree]

-[picture of a bike]

-[picture of a car]

I will definitely reference these notes every day after orientation ends.