Yesterday was my first day interning at SPAWAR, and I've gotta say, it was even better than I thought it would be. The moment I arrived I noticed that SPAWAR was just this huge place with so many huge buildings with so many different things happening inside. Many of them appealed directly to my interest in urban exploration. Some were very old, they were built as far back as World War 2! The reason I got to see so much of this huge place is thanks to one of my mentors Leslie Bolick who is a really amazing lady. She was fairly new so she took the opportunity to take me around and explore SPAWAR with her. Something else I noticed is that pretty much every single employee over at SPAWAR is an interesting person. Whenever I see somebody they are doing something. THere's people walking down the dirt roads n groups of ten looking like they just pulled off some huge experiment, there's people madly typing away at computers, and much more. As a matter of fact, a lot of the people I saw there reminded me of the scientist characters in sci-fi movies. It's hard to explain but it can't be more true. Something I am very excited about at SPAWAR is that I actually have my own desk! Actually I have two desks for the two buildings I'll be working in! I don't know why I'm so excited by this but I really am. I don't know exactly what I will be working on but I have many general ideas. For example, I know my work will involve GPS and UAVs. I also know that it will involve mapping areas since I was told directly and also I was given the task of mapping certain locations at SPAWAR as "homework". I also had to do a lot of research on SPAWAR, the branch of it that I'll be working in, and GPS as part of that "homework". As I previously mentioned the name of one of my mentors is Leslie Bolick, she is really cool and has been an amazing mentor showing me around SPAWAR. My other Mentor is Kara Sorensen,although I barely spoke with her I can also tell sh's really cool and I look forward to working with both of them. I am very excited but also a little bit worried. This worry is simply that I might not be able to live up to the expectations SPAWAR might have for me or I might not be able to reach the set goals. However I'm not letting that stop me and I am putting a tremendous amount of effort into the work I do there.
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