Day 1; 09/18/13

              I was fairly nervous on my first day on my internship. I had never really done anything like it before, so I was a little jumpy. What made that feeling worse was that on the way to the building, there was some pretty bad traffic which allowed me to stew on my emotions for a little bit. I finally get to the building at around 8:30 and proceed to my internship. My internship started with an orientation with a person named Wendy Rosenoff or something like that. During my orientation, I learned about how the staff at Langan works, hours, how to navigate the office, and several snippets of information like the password onto the floor, or how to contact the text department. I was also introduced to my mentor and all pseudo-mentors, for lack of a better term. You see that my official mentor is the head of site/civil engineering, Gerard Fitamant. However seeing as he is the head of a fairly large department I have report to a lot of engineers under Gerard. Basically, I am an intern for the entire civil engineering department. That entire process takes around 2 hours. My "assistant" mentors are people called Ko Hung Chan, Rajeev Raina, Mr. Koto, Adam Kent and anyone else who needs some grunt work done. After the orientation I am sent to Mr. Raina who proceeds to give me a 10 minute information session on his job and what he does. He then tells me that he is working on a project and he needs some files that were done many years in the past in order to assist in his project. I was sent to look at several filing books and order all the relevant files in a way that was easy to access. This event taught me that if you want to be an engineer, then you better be ready for lots and lots of AutoCAD drawings. This took more or less an hour worth of time. I went to have lunch in the cafe located in the basement where I got a chicken cutlet sandwich. Afterwards, Mr. Chan gave me some drawings to practice my CAD abilities on. The papers were from his job on the Montclair University Renovations. That went to the end of the day. All in all, it was a decent first day with about 8 hours of time spent at the office.