Surrey meets the USA

Hey! I’m back. I have been really busy on placement. It has been really fun, but loads of work. I am a software engineering intern at Microsoft based in London at the Lift studio. I am working on a new windows app that will be deployed on all windows machines! That is pretty much all […]

Hey! Last blog about Portugal before I tell you all about placement so far. Cascais was probably my favorite place in Portugal. I was actually least excited about this place because I wanted to go to Lagos this day, but I was very pleasantly surprised. Cascais was also only a single train from Lisbon which […]

Hey! It is my first week on placement at Microsoft! It has been amazing so far and I am learning lots. I will tell you more about that later though. This blog I want to tell you about Sintra. Both Sintra and Cascais (which I’ll tell you about in the next blog) are only about […]

Hey! I’m back! Portugal was amazing 🙂 We went to three city/towns in five days. We visited Lisbon, Cascais, and Sintra. We didn’t end up going to Lagos because the tour we wanted to go on had its time moved around and we wouldn’t have been able to get back to Lisbon in time. There was […]

Hey! It has not even been a week since I finished my last final, yet it feels like it has been ages. I have been able to do so much in the past week that I haven’t had time to think about how much time has passed. I went to Brighton on Tuesday and Wednesday. […]

Hey, I finished my finals today! Three weeks of hard, dedicated studying has come to a close. My usual study day lasts from 10:30am to about 7-8pm. I do take a break for lunch, but studying is pretty all consuming. I can now relax, play video games, go out with friends, and do some more […]