Post numero dos! Yippee! So this post is not in December like I said it might be. In fact, I’ve been married for more than six months now. Married life is definitely the good life. We moved into Wymount family housing after the wedding and lived there until school got out. Then we came to Midland, MI, for the summer. We’re really enjoying it here. It’s a quiet town, in a way. Most of the town is employed by Dow Chemical or one of its subsidiaries. We’re both interns at Dow this summer. Danielle is in the Accounts Receivable group and I ended up in IT auditing.
My first audit was fun. I worked with EDI and Lockbox. Both are essentially non-user interfaces, and Lockbox doesn’t even have it’s own processes anymore. For Lockbox we documented how it’s not it’s own application anymore, and for EDI we did some security and change management review. Since the audit ended, I’ve been working on the department website. We’ve been upgrading from MS Acces to SQL Server, which took a lot of work revamping the server scripting. We’re also converting an old Access application to a web form. That is turning out to be a very fun project. In the next couple weeks I’ll start work on my second and final audit of the summer.
Danielle, meanwhile, has been writing documentation and determining global policy for certain processes in Accounts Receivable. Last week and this week have also been quarter close, so she’s been busy working on that as well.
Life’s treating us well here in Midland. It’s peaceful, inexpensive, and we’re making big bucks as interns. We’re saving up money for the coming school year to pay tuition and housing (though housing and food I can usually pay out of my part-time job’s wages). Good times!