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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • I had an interview for an internship at an engineering company. They sort of forgot they were interviewing for an internship, or they unconsciously framed it as a job interview.

    At some point they were like “Well besides a fascination with transportation and an ability to learn quickly, what would you actually bring the team?”

    And I said “Not much. I’m a college sophomore”

    They laughed and I got the internship. Great company.















    • East coast: old money, lots of drinking, cold weather, violence, power, liberalism, deciduous forests
    • Southeast: southern hospitality, shithole school systems, conservativism, sweet tea, food influenced by french cuisine, nascar, lush vegetation
    • Southwest: cowboys, ranch homes, cultural mixing with Mexico, drugs, art, desert and mountains
    • West coast (basically california): hollywood, progressivism, new money, asian-pacific food influences, hippies, poop, surfing
    • Northwest: best weed, created grunge genre, rainy, dismal, chill, northern european food influences, rainforests
    • North-middle: liminal space, copy-pasted terrain, independent/libertarian, wheat, sparsely populated
    • Midest: mix of conservative and liberal, plains farmland, cozy houses, desperate to define itself culturally (see Chicago architectural publications), corn, soybeans, and pigs, neutral accent, german and polish food influence

    source: memory