6 weeks of fun, cuisines, friends, and programming--what can I say, this was definitely a defining moment of my high school career. Be it having the greatest ping-pong tournaments known to history to programming in Python and Java all day long, I had a blast. I met and connected with so many different people and learned so many different things about Silicon Valley start ups--for example: I learned about looking ahead and adapting a business to where the market will be in 10 year; I learned about different kinds of businesses and their similarities and differences; I learned about different ways of protecting your product; but most importantly, I learned about passion for what you're doing. If you believe in what you're working towards and if you believe in yourself that what you're doing is right, you're unstoppable. DataTorrent's employees are much like you and I--I've seen their fun side as well as their hardworking and studious side. Once, when the boss had left, one of the programmers went to the ping pong room and brought the table out to have a tournament in front of everybody! Unfortunately, he was caught in the act by the boss (who had forgotten some of his papers), and everybody got a good laugh out of it. For the longest time, I've been wanting to create real code--real, in the sense that real programmers in the field would create, and that I did. Looking back on my time at DataTorrent, I now realize that this is what has solidified my passion for CS. Though the internship is now over, it has opened a new door for me--I have found a beginning in the end.
