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So this week was San Francisco's first week housing 69 of its new interns! As you can imagine there were plenty of interns wandering around the first Monday searching for a specific cube number. However, I was pleasantly surprised to find my workspace right near the elevator, on the 8th floor with plenty of space to compute in!






The very first two days I was treated to lunch at some nearby eateries here in San Francisco. It was nice to get acquainted with my co-workers and our KPMG neighborhood of SOMA. In the State and Local Practice there are only a handful of us here in the SF office which makes for a convenient lunching group.

The first week was filled with me trying to communicate with as many of my co-workers as possible and to beef up my workload. I find that I am most efficient when I am busy. A lull in the workload leaves me unmotivated. The projects I have been given were not the stereotypical intern tasks of simply stapling and copying. I was actually able to work side by side with my superiors. This was intimidating at first for there is much to risk with even the simplest mistake in an accounting project! However, I found that my questions were not pestering but appreciated for everyone seems to collaborate and learn from each other in this office setting.

My main challenge this week was not even to do with my job (because it was a great week!), it was simply the commute. I spend at least an hour and a half commuting every day and with my usual schedule involving eating cereal and watching TV in the morning, I have not quite adjusted to people watching and eating Cliff bars at the wee hours of the morning on BART.