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May 28, 2003
The Interns Have Arrived
Today my team acquired an intern. It's weird because up until today, I felt like I was the team's intern. I've heard this feeling isn't uncommon, and it can take months before a new hire starts feeling like he/she actually has a clue what's going on. I've reached my 6 week mark, and I'm hoping to God the new intern doesn't show me up.
I ran into a returning intern from last summer today. He'll be interning this year in my building on some other part of the team. It makes me realize just how much older I am than my peers. Ontario's 5 years of high school, plus Waterloo's 5 years of university (including co-op) put me a good two or three years older than my fellow interns last summer. Most of my new circle of full-time employee friends are younger than me too. I warned them that the first one to call me "Old Man Lyon" will get beaten with my cane.