I’m home again after my time in Boston with Project Aura. As I look back over my summer I am certainly nowhere near where I expected to be at the outset.

One part of the difference is simply that once I took the concrete step of saying “I don’t like robots and am going to actively pursue finding something I really do like,” it shifted how I see the world significantly. That process has largely been internal, but the external experience of working for Sun and being an intern was also significantly different than I expected it to be.

HR sent around an intern survey to ask us about how much we enjoyed our work experience and how we would rate the organization and whatnot. I filled in the blanks and was not looking to make any serious commentary. At the end, however, the survey wouldn’t let me finish without putting something into the blank for “What would you recommend that management do to make this a better place to work?”

The problem is the question is not a simple one to answer, so as is my wont, I gave them likely far more information than they wanted: