Hello everyone, haven’t been here for two weeks! How’s everyone doing? To catch up with you guys, this weeks’ article is gonna be a relay challenge, two articles will be release to sum up my first month of placement! Now if you are all ready, come and dive right in with my placement experience😉

嗨大家，大概有兩週沒上來了，次知道大家過得怎樣呢？為了讓大家更快速地知道我的近況，這禮拜會上傳一共兩篇的文章來接力並總結一下我第一階段的實習經驗。那麼如果大家都準備好了的話就跟我一起那麼如果大家都準備好了的話就跟我一起進入我的實習生活吧😉

Even though Guildford is super close to London, I didn’t get the chance to go into London that often in my first and second year. Therefore, I always feel like a tourist whenever I go to London. After starting my placement, although I am still under the shadowing phase of my position I still got plenty of chances to go out of the office and visit some projects on-site. I have to say this month is definitely the most time that I have been into London compares to the past 4 years since I have been living in the UK. Getting the train at 8am, squeezing into the crowded tube and eye-rolling about the delayed schedule. I am still trying to adjust the daily-basis for a Londoner worker. Wearing heels and blazer, carrying my briefcase walking down the street in London make me feel like a grown-up and actually living as a professional, everything still feels very weird to me.

雖然Guildford離倫敦超級近，我大一、二的時候也沒有那麼多機會去倫敦，所以每次有機會去倫敦的時候，我永遠都覺得自己是觀光客。不過開始實習了之後，雖然我還在見習階段，我就有滿多機會出辦公室去看看現場的案子。我這個月去倫敦的次數都比我在英國住了四年還多了哈哈。早上8點坐著火車，跟著擠上滿的要命的地鐵，還有邊翻白眼邊聽延誤的廣播；我還在習慣對於倫敦上班族來說再也日常不過的日子。穿著跟鞋、西裝外套，背著公事包走在倫敦街頭，這一切對我來說還是非常奇怪。

The department I stayed in this week was “On-site commissioning”, which is doing the last step before sending through the clients. The job is not about building up the hardware and construct the cables, but making sure the networking and signal transferring are working perfectly just like what was been drawn on the schematic. Went into two different sites for different approach of set up this week, one is video conferencing room another is merged displays setup. However, it was not just putting in codes and testing. Both sides I have visited have some networking issue on either ethernet ports or LAN connection. In that case, on-site troubleshooting is very important and sometimes can be tricky because of either access limitation or time restriction that can sometime make it to be a little bit stressful. But got the chance to see the whole project to be build up and get to work properly is pretty cool I think!

這禮拜待的部門是現場測試運作”On-site commissioning“也算是專案在移交給客戶前的最後一個步驟。這份工作不太算是安裝硬體設備跟擺設線路，而是確定網路跟信號傳播是跟在工程圖上一樣完美運作的。我去了兩個不同設計的現場，分別是影像通話會議室跟合併螢幕輸出的案子。這兩個案子在現場都有網路問題，像是連接阜跟LAN的連接失誤。因此即時在現場找出問題源頭跟提供解決方法也很重要，而且因為現場有時候會有出入跟時間限制所以相對的解決也會變得比較棘手跟有壓力。不過在這個部門工作就可以完整地看到專案從圖變成一個真正在運作的系統也是蠻酷的。

This is also the last department I will be shadowing after my first phase of placement, from next week I will be doing a presentation stating what departments that I will be staying for three months. Not to hanging your curiosity too long, the next article will be the overview and the final reveal of my choices! Remember to check out the next article!

這也是我見習階段待的最後一個部門了，從下週開始我就要在主管前面報告選擇接下來三個月要待的部門了。為了不讓你們好奇太久，我會在下篇文章公開我的選擇，大家記得往下繼續看！

Mandy xx