Quick update from the last post: I made it back from Alaska safely, thanks for the comments and support to everyone!  I’ve since graduated from UCF and just this week started working for IBM as a full time Software Engineer!

A month or so ago I received some e-mails from IBM saying that I had to take part in an orientation/training program on my first week.  Well, my first week is this week and I was sent to our headquarters in Armonk, NY to sit through three days of orientation class with a bunch of other new hires.

I went into the first meeting on Monday afternoon expecting to see a room full of other people fresh out of college, boy was that the wrong idea!  It turns out that IBM hires (at least right now, anyway) more “experienced professionals” then they do “university-hires”, which really shouldn’t have been too surprising - they acquire new companies all the time and need to increase the staff of a lot of those companies when they come on.

I won’t bore any of you with the details of the training, and I don’t even really know how much of it I’m allowed to share anyway.  I had a good time, learned a lot, and met some really cool people.  Unfortunately, none of them were engineers; most were sales or consulting hires.

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