Just an Update
Since the beginning of my internship at Motorola, I've been really tired. I can't tell if it's the waking up early every morning, or if it's the stress of trying to do a good enough job to make some sort of impression, but the whole ordeal is incredibly tiring.
Which is not to say that it's unrewarding. I've learned a lot so far about volatility and instability in a Fortune 500 company. When talking to a host in the newly-opened Innovation Center the other day, I was dumbfounded to learn that his co-worker (who I had talked to a day before) had been the most recent victim of Motorola's workforce reduction. I imagine that there are thousands of stories just like mine all around the company.
In any case, I can't imagine a more productive or educational use of my summer. My experiences so far have been nothing short of fantastic and unbelievable. It's still incredibly humbling to walk out of the elevator into the hallway of the seventh floor and look through the Motorola "batwing" logos that adorn each conference room door and see the faint outline of Chicago in the distance. It is a reminder of how lucky I really am to have such an opportunity, and how it just as easily could have been someone else feeling this way instead of me.