Jan 11 - yup time for a real job

Jan 12 - First day done and all the people seem nice and my supervisor seems cool too. Dear lord the amount of access control and software involved in getting set up is wild. I'm gonna be working with things I'm pretty unfamiliar with and I hope that my supervisor recognizes that I can learn new things and just because I don't know __ off the top of my head, doesn't mean I can't work with it. Overall pretty solid, and also I get a nice cubicle/desk and theres a hot chocolate machine. This is beautiful (for now atleast :P)

Jan 13 - Second day done and apparently like half of my team worked for blackberry for quite awhile and one person for a really long time which is cool. They're all significantly older than me but its cool. I'm learning about wsl and docker rn to just try and get set up with their build processes and stuff. Seems interesting and I'm looking forward to getting a better understanding of corporate software development lol. Its kinda wild to just scroll through all the code and think about how thats pretty much whats running many cars today too so thats fun. Yuh pretty solid so far

Jan 15 - Fourth day done and I had a meeting w my supervisor whos super awesome and a little scary but I think thats just me lol. I appreciate how nonchalantly/calmly enthusiastic he is about things and he seems to care a good lot about his coop students. When applying, I thought that by making my resume reflect me as a person moreso than just trying to 'optimize' it to make it 'stand out', that I would find a job I enjoy. And I think that holds true here, we were talking about why he chose me, and apparently it largely because of the projects I did in the past which he saw as not school based and purely passionate. I was hoping someone would see that and its really reassuring/nice to know that people do care about those things. I'm really happy to be on the other side of some of the current trends in tech and I'm glad to know that others are too. I still feel like having this be public is attention seeking but if I was stalking someone I'd really appreciate to have this so I'll keep it up 🫡. Still feeling like the future lies in doing dear god anything but what anyone on linkedin says, and in actually enjoying what you do. I'm glad to see that passion is recognized in the world and that I will find people like me.

Also here's an image of the post it notes that past coops left in the cubicle (I will make sure to continue the tradition) (names censored) On another note I love having a little spot to have all my things and also the computers there are very solid too. Also double monitors are lowkey goated. I talked to a few other coop students at the start with orientation, but I've just been talking to the one sitting next to me since then lol. People on the team are still really cool and interesting but my social game has been significantly off point cause idk how these people be yet ;w;