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It was the 14th of October as I was sitting in Beach Hall for Software Engineering waiting for lecture to start when I heard my inbox notification go off. Glancing at the subject, I became curious as to what the email was about. I saw a forwarded message of a forwarded message of an email from a UConn alumnus who was doing some recruiting for Google a couple weeks earlier. He had just so happened to hear about my mind-controlled drone project and was interested in sending my contact info to more recruiters at Google. I couldn't believe what I was reading. Google -- the company I've wanted to work for since joining the CSE program.
I liked to imagine one day I'd end up working at Google, although I doubted it would be anytime soon, as I'd only been programming for 2 years. Now I was being presented with the golden opportunity to make that day sooner than I would have ever hoped for.
Excitedly, I responded with all necessary contact info as well as a link to the magazine article I was featured in for the project and a video of the demo he missed me give to a group of students participating in an ACM robotics contest a couple weeks earlier. I waited for a response and... nothing.
Until a week later.
I got the email from a different Googler, who became my recruiting contact. And so began my internship interview process with the Silicon Valley tech giant.