I recently returned from my eight week internship as a Data Science/Software Engineering intern at TAPD/Frank. This internship was through the Princeton Keller Center Princeton Startup Immersion Program (PSIP), a program matching Princeton students with startups throughout New York City. I’m going to perform a quick post-mortem on my experience.
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Time flies, and it turns out that I’m now halfway done with my Princeton undergraduate career. It’s been a glorious two years, and as such, I have two things to share:
The final project of my optimization class this semester (ORF 307) was to write an OCR (optical character recognition) program, an assignment formulated by Professor Robert Vanderbei. Naturally, this assignment was quite intimidating, but my partner and I eventually figured out how to approach the problem. The end result was quite possibly one of the coolest projects that I’ve ever played a part in building, and I’m very proud of it.
I spent the past two months as a System Analyst intern in the Office of Quality at Educational Testing Service. For those of you who don’t know, ETS is the company that performs the academic research and assessment development for tests such as the SAT and AP programs. I’m going to perform a quick post-mortem on my experience there.
I’ll use my physics class as a case study for this. I’m taking PHY 104 this semester, which is Physics E/M (electricity and magnetism). From the very start of the course, we had to do integral vector calculus for electric fields and I panicked; I had never done anything of the sort, and then when I tried to read through the textbook, there were even more intimidating vector calculus problems (involving gradients mostly, which at that point in time I knew of, but didn’t know how to use them). I stopped paying attention in class, and fell further behind.