Wed 30 Aug 2006
My two Williams interns — or “summer associates”, as we officially describe them so that their resumes will look even better when they apply to Goldman Sachs — have finished up, leaving enough time to while away the rest of August with their girlfriends. Smart fellows, both. Special thanks to Evan Miller ‘06 and Diana Davis ‘07 for their help in publicizing the position.
One intern, after a visit to Williams, recounted an amusing story about how popular I am on campus. When he told a senior Williams administrator — someone that I have both criticized and praised on EphBlog — that he was working for me this summer, the administrator said:
I hope you make him so much money that he spends all his time counting it and stops blogging about Williams.
Alas, the interns were good, but not that good. Maybe next summer!
August 30th, 2006 at 6:58 am
David: I don’t care what they say about you. Anyone who can upset the College administration can’t be all bad.
August 30th, 2006 at 3:17 pm
who were the interns? Can we see your syllabus?
August 30th, 2006 at 7:11 pm
It is wonderful when full discosure is given. Of course, this works especially well when the people being discussed don’t object to having their name on a website and their work abilities and histories bandied around ad naseum, along with every interesting tidbit we can relate (or not) to them. But, working on carefully judged assumptions of what they will tolerate, I’m sure we can get started. That’s what we’re here for, after all! And when they finally make some public comment (including yes or no don[t put my name on the website) I bet we can read the relevant conclusions to be drawn as well.
August 30th, 2006 at 7:28 pm
A lot of things come under the heading of “Nobody’s Business”.
August 30th, 2006 at 9:14 pm
For the record, the intern involved gave me permission to publish the story. He found it hilarious.
The two interns who worked for us this summer (and will be doing part time work for us during the school year) were Kyle Campbell ‘08 and Dan Gerlanc ‘07. This is, more or less, public knowledge since we worked on this open source project together. We hope to publish an article in R News together in the near future.
(And, no, I will not be reporting which one told me the story. Ask them yourself, if you like.)
September 1st, 2006 at 2:24 pm
Dan is a senior already? Time sure passes quickly.