Introduction-How it began

     Hi. My name is Conrad Kieras and this is my blog. In this blog, I will be describing my adventures as a high school intern. The company I decided to lend my services to is known as Langan Engineering. Langan was first founded as a geotechnical specialty firm in 1970. Eventually it grew into what it is now, which is to say a firm made up of geotechnical, environmental and civil engineers. I first learned about Langan via the science day of my school. Science day being, by the way, a day where a lot of professionals from many different careers come to Hackensack Academy in Bergen, New Jersey in order to talk to students about their respective skills. It is here were I met a man named Don Koto. We had an interesting conversation about how bigger ships going through the Panama Canal have to do with port construction in New York. After our meeting, I inquired about an internship, to which he gave me a business card and told me to try. The funny thing was that Mr. Koto is the unofficial head of interns, something that he told me a couple weeks later. After sending in my application I was asked about an interview which was both over the phone and face to face. The phone interview was asking about my skills and abilities while the face to face interview was more about if you are capable to normal human behavior (at least I think so). Well after that, I got accepted and so begins the story of my internship.