This morning I started off by meeting Jack Shea who told me his story about how he got to SAS. He manages an infrastructure group and he has 6 project managers. He was a construction engineer for 5 years then left to be a general contractor for a few months, but he realized how much he loved SAS and he came back for a job in IT and now works there for 33 years. He showed me around the data centers and then he brought me to my next meeting where I met an old soccer teammate/CA Alumni Connor Mann who was interning along with another woman from Kansas. He was working to clean the code gathered from different places and make it more accessible for sales, pre-sales, and basically anyone else in SAS who needed to use it. Then I met with Allison Becker, their boss. She told me that 80% of her time is spent preparing data and 20% is spent implementing it. She used data to figure out if a group’s project is going to be successful. Then during and after lunch I ate pizza with all the employees and we debriefed with a woman from human resources and we got to speak with members of a group called young professionals. They gave us advice about college, jobs, and life in general. They told me how important it was to figure out other people and be nice to them and treat them how they appreciate being treated. So, overall the SAS experience was very helpful in learning how to make business communications and how to handle myself more formally in a business environment and work and learn.