My internship in the Peruvian Space Agency has finished. I was assistant to the systems administrator in the training center. My job was to do preventive maintenance to the computers of the training center and assure they would work during the trainings.
It was a nice, relaxing internship. The best thing of all is that I had broadband internet! Here in Peru is still kind of a luxury, so having broadband for 4 hours per day was great!
Of course, I didn’t waste my time and used the Internet for looking for information on space studies and space industry. Now I have tons of links and pdf’s that will keep me busy for a long, long time.
Space Shuttle Endeavour lifting off, carrying solar panels to the International Space Station; November 30th, 2000. Source: NASA
Tomorrow I start as one of the two interns for the Peruvian Space Agency. This is great! I was afraid that I had to make my internship in a bank doing a boring internship *.
I don’t know exactly what I am going to work on, but it doesn’t matter. This is a one-in-chance opportunity that, I hope, will help me in my future career in the space industry.
On other news, I’ve found that there is an alternative to the Master in Space Studies in the University of North Dakota; I can use some of my credits in industrial engineering to finish aerospace engineering in a university like UT Austin.
Have to research more, though, specially scholarships and grants since these degrees are quite expensive.
CONIDA’s logo. Source: CONIDA
* 2010: If possible, experience a boring internship or job. It will make you appreciate and value a job that you are passionate about.
