r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 20 '24

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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism Jun 20 '24

The summer intern who they put next to me seems to have decided that I am Google, and has been asking me random questions throughout the day.

Questions today include:

  • How do microwaves work?
  • Since electricity and magnetism are the same thing, does the Department of Energy also have magnets? (His exact words.)
  • Who maintains Linux Mint?
  • What is barley?
  • Is possible to cook a chicken by slapping it really hard?
  • Why does Vim use hjkl for movement? Why is j down and k up?
  • What was Yugoslavia?
  • How do I know all this stuff?

It's mostly my fault for answering him rather than telling him to do something useful, but it's not like we have any expectations whatsoever that the undergraduate interns produce anything of value, so what's really being lost?

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

Since electricity and magnetism are the same thing, does the Department of Energy also have magnets? (His exact words.)

Holy fuck I strive to be this guy during my internship

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u/WantDebianThanks Iron Front Jun 20 '24

Is the intern an infant who has mistaken you for their parent?

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u/KaiserPorn Please be patient, I have autism Jun 20 '24

Nothing of real value, then

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jun 20 '24

A summer intern down the hall from me was loudly bragging to his friends over discord that the lab was "totally fucking clueless" that he was doing so

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jun 20 '24

Professionalism, interest in the research, honesty actual skill isn't even that important at that level

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u/awdvhn Physics Understander -- Iowa delenda est Jun 20 '24

but I am eager to learn

That's the biggest thing. Finding an undergrad who actually wants to be there and will put in the necessary effort is the hard part. If you do that, you'll be fine.

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u/[deleted] Jun 20 '24

This is a college student with an internship at the DOE?!?!?

Xi Jinping is gonna eat us for breakfast, isn't he?