Day 14-16, 1/8/14,1/15/14,1/22/14

      So you may be wondering two things. First, why my blog posts have been so late. And second, why I am choosing to do a post for three days. Well, the answer for the first question is that I have been swamped in work. The answer to the next question is that I choose to. I don't tell you how to live your life. Well, enough of that. Day 14 had me spending my time doing two things. First, I had to build a price estimate for a project at Stormking Highschool. For those of you that don't know; a price estimate involves someone going through all the proposed drawings and counting up how much everything will cost. So, if there are 5 trees, we would record 5 trees, put down the unit price and then get the final price. All of this was done in excel so if the drawings were to be changed later, then the number of certain objects could be changed easily. So, this other intern Matt and I spent our morning to do the price estimate. I was the guy doing the excel and calculating everything, while Matt was drawing everything on the CAD files. In the end, the project had a final cost that was in the millions, which amazed me because I am likely to never see that much money at one place in one time in my entire life. And as you may imagine for a price that large, the report took a while to do. Afterwards, I was asked to go through a subcontractor proposal in which they asked to use a specific type of material for a job. Everything they had turned out to be fine, and I just had to pdf the proposal. All they were asking was to use a specific type of paver, and sand. Day 15 had me working on autocad the entire day. That is it; I am not kidding. I was doing drawings of the digging heights for a building that was being put up. What do I mean by that you may ask? Well, when you have to make something where part of the building goes under ground, like supports for example, you logically need to have room for the workers to dig. So, the workers also dig out some extra space for equipment and the like. That was all I did. It was a large drawing that required quite a bit for work. As for Day 16... well I didn't go to work on the 16 due to what I like to call crazy weather. Due to all the snow, my school didn't want to force a whole bunch of "high schoolers" to have to drive who knows how long to work. So, they canceled internships for today. And that is the story of these three days. In any case, I hope that all my readers stay safe and if they have to drive, they do so carefully. I am sorry for the long wait between posts and if nothing else, thanks for reading.