I went to the office again! It's been over a month since I last worked in person, so it was nice to see some actual people again haha. I was able to meet one of my CI Challenge teammates in person, which was cool. We had a good chat about the challenge and some other stuff. I also got to see some of the other interns that I hadn't seen in a while, which was also nice.
Back to the reason I was in the office: Beat The Boss (Halloween Edition). We had a good networking session with some of the higher-ups at Sun Life, and then had an intense haunted house making competition. Me and my teammate Diya ended up losing (not even finishing before we ran out of time), but it was still a good time. Below is a picture of the winning team's haunted house (they apparently finished with 10 minutes left, somehow!):
I've also made more progress with my internal tool. I've made some more adjustments to the UI, because I noticed some defects after deploying and testing on the dev environment. I should be able to deploy it further this week, then get it tested and deployed to prod during the next release.
I also had my mid-term check-in with the Brock co-op office, where they basically just asked me a bunch of questions about how my term has been going. They then went and talked to my manager separately, and then gave me some of the feedback that they received. Apparently he "only had positive things to say about me", which feels great. I'm glad that I am doing well at Sun Life, and that my manager is happy with my work.
Despite that, there is always that tinge of imposter syndrome that doesn't seem to go away.
Next week is the internal hackathon I mentioned last week. I'm going in person again on Monday to attend the kick-off event and opening ceremonies, as well as meet my team in person. It's a cloud-based (AWS) hackathon, so I hope to learn a ton from it ( especially considering I have no experience with AWS). It should be a very exciting week, and I can't wait to see what we come up with.
Fall 2024 Goals Update
I only ended up going bouldering twice this week. I was very tired after work and had a pretty lazy week in general (at least, once I was done with work).