First Day at Internship

Hey, today was the first day at the cool SpaWar internship! First of SpaWar stands for Space and Naval Warfare, and the division I was interning at was the robotics division. There are numerous extensions and zones to SpaWar, mine was at the military base on the peninsula, in which the navy owns. My section was far passed the inactive gates (tricky huh? We didn't know we could go passed them until we called our mentor up). Like one mile out, we turned right into a working gate system with guards. When we finally finished telling the guards why were here, my mentor showed up (IN A PORCH). That was a surprise, he greeted me and my mom as the rest of the carpool was waiting in the car. My mom asked him about some stuff for directions about the other carpool people. We rode down the gates turned right (which pretty much stretched around to where we started at the nonoperational gates). I'm guessing they could get us to go down there since that's where they do some of their testing. I was shown around, saw some of the testing areas, the tethered testing pads and the wireless testing pads [tethered is wired debugging, just to make sure nothing crazy happens]. After that I finally arrived at the small encampment.

If you want to see my place on google earth, press

on pc's or Add-->Placemark
and put in these coordinates
32°42'12.59"N
117°15'14.82"W

The building on the place mark is the building that I work in (im on floor 2) the building right beside that is my replacement mentor (since he is on a trip), as well as Robin Laird, my real mentor. The building south of the placemark is the shed for all the gigantic crazy cool classified robots. I could tell you, but Obama's no torture rule will take some time to enforce before were through with you. Even further south, wait you'll almost miss it! That's where the volleyball court is, on Tuesdays and Thursdays they will play there a little bit! North and south of us is all testing grounds. North is vehicles, and south are UAV's. We also will have a turret with an M18 fire at unauthorized personnel in development [it is currently equipped with air-soft] and is also stored in the storage.

My temporary mentor was pretty easy going, he showed me around, showed me his crowded cubicle. Showed me his stash of perfectly aligned used coke-a-cola bottles on his desk (I thought was pretty funny). I was showed some testing robots that people use around here. Unfortunately my real mentor wasn't there so explain exactly what I am doing, so I was given directions to research knowledge about Google earth in which I may be using. Throughout the many hours of me being there and past me setting up my 15 character super password. I was sitting at my desk researching about Google Earth's xml based language. Which I hope to get to some real programming sooner or later. But after that was done, I was asked to go out to the pavement outside to go ride around on the Segway! It was very nice, it was modded by SpaWar to have their own settings in it. It was very easy to understand how to use. After riding that around for a while, I went up the path to see my ride home. Instead of just seeing my mom, I was also very surprised to see that my grandma was in the car waiting... It was very interesting to go there, and I'm glad it wasn't my last visit.