hello
How's it going friend?
hey im doing great you?
Not too bad, it's stopped raining so I'm pretty happy about that
yeah I know right? The weather was terrible yesterday. Super windy and kind of cold too.
Yeah I wasn't a fan
How was your Mother's Day yesterday? Did you spent quality time with your family?
Yeah it was awesome I made shrimp scampi for my mom, brother, sister and several friends We all had a blast. It was my first time making something  Italian like that so I was kind of nervous but the food turned out great! Everyone loved it.
Wow! Shrimp scampi... that actually sounds very good.
Yep! it was! I also made some garlic bread to go along with it and we made some chocolate chip cookies afterwards too.
Yeah I had a good time with my family too
That's good to hear So my brother works at the second floor of the library and does 3D modeling. He's never really done it before and has to learn CAD Which you know so much about already. Anyway the "think tank" which is a study room that can be reserved as huge white boards that almost go down to your feet. There aren't any marker holders and so his manager asked him to make a marker holder using fusion 360 which is a CAD software. He spent a lot of time working on it and finally made a design with minimal design and that was also efficient It had to make about three designs before he found one that was pretty good. It's was funny when he told me this story because he was so proud of learning the software and making his own little project But i guess when someone starts off learning something and creates something worthwhile, it's kind of an ego boost haha
True! CAD softwares aren't too difficult to learn but it does take time. I think it's a really fun software to work with. I've made lots of designs on different types of software that do similar things Gosh... are there any good tv shows out there right now?
Hmmm I'm not too sure of any good ones. I'm not sure if there's even any decent ones too. When I have some past time and I can't really focus on studying anymore, I've been resorting to watching older movies. I don't mean like the old old movies like the black and white films or even the old western but like the movies that came out in the early 2000's I wasn't too much of a movie watcher back then and quite frankly didn't know any real good movies that came out from that time. My friends and I were browsing Netflix last night and came across a movie called Adventureland. It actually came out in 2009 so it's not early 2000's but It still kind of old I think haha Anyway it's about a guy who graduates from high school and is ready to go on his graduation trip that his parents have paid for him. But then his father gets moved to a different department and got a huge pay cut and so he's not able to afford the trip planned for his son's graduation.
Oh cool, I actually think I've heard about this one before
Yeah the actor's name is Jesse Eisenberg. He's been in quite a few films and I think he's a decent actor in my opinion. Not to mention Kristen Stewart and Ryan Reynolds is in it as well. So Jesse Eisenberg plays a guy named James Brennan or something like that. The kid is an introvert and kind of socially awkward. Anyway to pay for his graduation trip and to also save money for college he starts looking for summer jobs. He has a tough time doing so because he's never had to work in his life. It seems like his parents always made enough money and it didn't require his son to work at all. Anyway what happens is he starts applying to all these different times of jobs but doesn't get hired because he's never had any work experience In his resume, the only "impressive" things put down were his GPA and SAT score or something like that. But those don't have anything to do with the summer jobs he was trying to get.
Yeah thats funny. Ind of makes you feel grateful for some work experience, even if it was in high school or something like that
Yeah I know right? Anyway, his parents eventually tell him to work at Adventureland which is a pretty much just an amusement park He gets hired without question because that's just how the story goes... and they don't require anything from their employees. He meets Em lewin, whose played by Kristen Stewart and I guess falls in love her. I'm not too sure what happens because my roomates had to go to sleep and they wanted to finish watching it tonight with me. But all together it was a pretty comical movie. so I got the job!
what job>?
the job at pluralsight!
oh no way!!!!
yeah
congratz!
thank you
how did it go?
the interview was awesome so last week I went to the South Jordan Campus and I had the 3 hour interview right
yeah i remember
so they said that they were going to get back to me by last Friday at the lastest. Well they called me and i was like super excited and nervous to pick up their phone because I was waiting all week for it I was kind of getting stressed because I thought that if they wanted to hire me that they would already have called well i picked up the phone and Denise from the HR at Pluralsight said that they had some good new and the bad news. The bad news was that they have not decided what they want wanted to do with me they good news was that Justin and Anna who are one of the product teams wanted to interview me because they didn't really have a good chance to talk to me.
oh aweomse
When I first interviewed last week over there I got to talk to Justin a bit but Justin was my last interview and it was just question and answer session where I got to ask my questions that I had and he just answered my question and didn't really get to know who I was and what I could offer to the team
ok
yeah and so Justin and Anna wanted to interview me better and Shibu who was my first interviewer also came in and interviewed me. I dont know why he came in because he was my first interviewer and I thought that I did bad with him but maybe he didn't know who to decide I dont know anyway so Justin was really cool and even though it was a question and answer session I still had a good conversation with him we had a conversation about game theory and game theory is basically how video games and gambling is so addictive because when you level up or win something small the celebration is really grand. The animation on the screen and the sound and music that it plays and the skil progression really give a big hit of dopamine to the human brain and they want to keep learning
oh interesting i see that a lot with games
yaeh and with game theory we talked about how some teams at pluralsight wanted to implement that theory to the their products
so what does this company do again?
so this company has professional video courses on various tech topics. Cyber security to networking to all kinds of stuff and its really nice because they only bring the best of the best teachers
oh ok keep on going
yeah so they want to implement game theory to their video course product in order to help motivate the consumers using their product in order for them to keep going and have fun learning
oh that would be cool
yeah! I am super excited so anyway I got the chance to really talk about me and how I started to get in to User Experience design and I thought it was kind of awkward but I did my best to explain and talk about myself and about 30 minutes later I got a call from them sayign that Justin and Anna wanted to have me as an intern at Pluralsight!
yay!!!! so cool!
thanks! They told me that they were going to get back to me like tomorrow or the next day but they got to me right away which was awesome.
so what made them want to choose you?
you know... honestly I have no idea. i was surprised to find out so fast
yeah that is crazy
yeah I know that they couldnt decide between me and another candidate but we will see
good job I am so happy for you!
thanks again hahaha
when do you start? give me what the offer is?
So i am going to start on June 4th and they will give me a desk and a laptop to work with that will have all the programs that I will be using to create what I need to there but because I am an international student I need to do more things than just sign the offer
what do you have to do?
So i need to apply for what is called the Curricular Practical Training. So as an international student I cannot work off campus unless it is related to my major! so this is and I am so happy that I get to do this during my college career So the requirements to apply for a curricular practical training is the one the training is an integral part of my program of studies and is temporary in nature so yeah this Product Internship is related to my major and its an internship so its temporary
sweet
and I have to be lawfully enrolled on a full-time bassis for at least on academic year in my current degree level meaning that I have had to completed on year of my major before I can even do this thing and obviously I have to be in a lawful status those are the eligibility now the requirements are really hectic but it can be done and I need to get it done
what is it?
So the requirements before starting is that I need to receive a new I-20 showing my authorized CPT before I begin the internship
what is that?
the I-20 is a legal document showing that i am a legal student that is studying at BYU and the government will recognize that
ok
and I can only work 40 hours a week since I am on my vacation period and if I am not on a vacation period I can only work 20 hours
so how do you get vacation hours as an international student?
I get my vacation hours if I finish 2 semesters in on year back to back so I finished fall and winter semester and now spring and summer is my vacation period
oh awesome
and I need to be enrolled in an internship course for academic credit  through out the duration of my training unless the internship is required for graduation. so I need to get in to an internship class this spring and summer and since the add drop deadline is passed I need to get that appealed and considered to take it which I dont see a problem the counsilors told me that it shouldnt be a problem it sucks that I have to pay for the credit though but oh well
oh nice! so what do you have to do now?
yeah the process is kind of long so first I need to obtain a letter from Pluralsight on campny letterhead with the signature of the human resources department officer authorized to hire for the company. The letter need to include the information such as the name, physical address phone of the company. then specific detial on the nature of the training. so basically the job description of what I will be doing then the type of position showing that how many hours I will be working there Then It need to have the beginning date of traniing that must be five days after the internation student services receives the compelte application because authorization may not be given retroactively and they need the time to process my request which is the I-20 and the ending date of training that is before the first day of classes for the next term and things like that
oh my thats a lot of stuff!
yeah it is but I cant do anything after that if they dont send me that letter first Then I need to get my employer letter and review it with the IT department's  internship coordinator and have the coordinator complete a form of their own then I need to enroll in the appropriate work study, practicum, field program, internship or cooperative education course; so basically the internship classs
ok gotcha
then I need to take these documents to the internation student office. Request for approval of CPT , letter from the propective employer (pluralsight) and a master agreemen a completed internship coordinator form which the internship coordinator has to complete then I need the documentation of enrollment in the realted class then I will get the authorization to work at Pluralsight and they will give me a new I-20
holy cow that is a lot of stuff
yeah it is.... International student have a lot of things they need to do in order to legally work and do things around here
you guys have it tough hahaha
yeah a bit
so are you excited?
yeah I am super excited! I dont know exactly what to expect and I dont know what I will learn but I know that I will learn a ton of stuff and I hope to get a lot out of it because I dont want it to be an internship where I just fetch coffee I want to learn and not waste time there I mean it pays 20 bucks an hours so I am not complaining
that is pretty good
yeah it is I am super stoked! its my best job yet in pay and in work I am super grateful for all the people and opportunities that I got in order to get to where I am now
yeah you worked hard and its paying off
yes it is super stoked
so what are you going to do until june 4th?
I am still working on campus right now I have a job at the humanities department doing user experience design work. and I can work there until june 4th I guess and I also work for a librarian doing some UX work there too
oh what projects do you have right now?
well I have a couple projects so the one at the library the guy wants me to help him create some mockups of what the app will look like so that he can pitch it to the head people at the library in order to fun the project it will be really cool because this project will help students connect with other students and professor connect with other students  and professors to do research projects or other projects that people have in mind so this project is really cool because the students will just log in with their net ID and password and the system will just pull their information such as their major, their the classes they have taken, and then the students can edit and add other skill that they have and interests that they have in finding research projects
oh cool! that sounds really complecated
yeah it can be but its really simple if you have been a developer for a while I am glad that I dont have to do any development but any way then anybody after that can create a project and find a project that they want to join in and help when the students are trying to find the projects they dont need to sift through all of the projects. The find projects page will have filtered already based on their skills, classes they've taken and interests and the view that they will have will only have the projects that they are qualified
ohhh wow that project sounds really fun to do
yeah I am super excited and I thought that I will be starting at Pluralsight really soon but I have a couple weeks to work with the librarian to get that going
oh fun!
yeah I felt bad because I just did the essential prototyping but I think that there is a lot more that I can do for this project
you are a good worker
thanks