{"id":34,"date":"2021-10-27T03:10:20","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/?p=34"},"modified":"2021-10-27T03:10:20","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T03:10:20","slug":"mecop-internships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/2021\/10\/27\/mecop-internships\/","title":{"rendered":"MECOP Internships"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hi everyone, today I will be talking about my experience with the MECOP program. Overall, I would say my experience has been very positive. I have completed one internship, and I am currently participating in the second one. I have learned so much because of my internships, and I could not imaging what it would be like to miss out on that. I would definitely encourage others to participate in the MECOP program!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>1st Internship: Cambia Health Solutions<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My first internship was at a healthcare company. The interesting thing about this experience was that it was entirely remote. There was a lot of uncertainty about the internship because of Covid, so I am really glad that it happened at all. The internship was made possible because the gear that I needed, like a work laptop and a monitor, was sent to me in mail. The main project I worked on during this internship was an API that exposed 13 endpoints. It was built with NodeJS and express, and I learned a lot while doing it. In the end, I was happy that I got to experience what work from home was like. One of the reasons I chose computer science was because of the flexibility it offers, so I am glad to have had this experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>2nd Internship: Consolidated Metco<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I am four months into this internship, so I still have two more to go. This internship has challenged me in some great ways. The biggest project I have worked on so far involved developing an algorithm that fixes inconsistencies in their data. This is by far the most complicated coding project I have ever completed. There can be SOOOO many edge cases in real data. Other than that, I have worked with databases and written a lot of SQL. I feel like my SQL skills were lacking, so this has been a great opportunity for me. I am happy that this internship was in person, and I really enjoy my coworkers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi everyone, today I will be talking about my experience with the MECOP program. Overall, I would say my experience has been very positive. I have completed one internship, and I am currently participating in the second one. I have learned so much because of my internships, and I could not imaging what it would&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/2021\/10\/27\/mecop-internships\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">MECOP Internships<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/pmb12345\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}