So I have been working in DC for the past few weeks at a
company called Navigant. I’ll have this
job for 8 weeks so I felt might as well write down what I do at work so I don’t
forget it haha. Overall what Navigant
does is help clients with litigations and compliance. My department is Legal Technology Solutions
(LTS) so we do all that previous stuff, but with tech! Personally, I do a lot
of SQL programming, but some things the other interns do is document review to
see if there is anything useful to court cases in those documents. I don’t really find that work that much
interesting because it is mostly just looking at documents for hours, so I try
to keep asking for SQL work.
There are two other interns in LTS, Meaghan and
Katherine. They are also UVA students
and I’m glad they are here with me. They are funny and accept my randomness
haha. Whenever we are bored we can message or just turn around and talk. Another person in our cubicle area (don’t
worry I’m not boxed in; there is plenty of open space) is Emily. She goes to Davidson and is in the
Construction team, but she sits with us and completes the square haha. She is keeping a quote sheet of all the weird
things I say, which is kinda scary but also funny.
We all three have buddies.
Mine is Patrick and he is really chill.
Quiet but when he drinks he is a crazy man supposedly. Though he is my buddy, since I keep asking
for SQL projects I work more with John, Arman, and Mason (powerhouse Asian team
haha). John is like insanely chill but
learned coding at work, but he always makes sure we are ok so he is a good
guy. Arman is super intense programmer
and likes to give speeches about thinking in a “database perspective”
haha. I should really learn a lot from
him before I leave. Mason is higher than
them two I think and is cool (I’ll talk about the social life stuff in a
different post).
Was about to type about one of my projects but I am not
allowed to so oh well. I just feel lucky that I have not gotten super boring projects in LTS. I have to keep pressuring for harder projects
since it is summer and they have less work compared to usual, but I just want to learn
and be helpful really. Never expected that I would do a lot more
programming than business stuff, but I probably would like this better than
doing financial models I guess. Maybe because it is new for me and I don't really have much experience in professional coding that it is interesting.
