So before I started college, I already had summer internships in mind. During high school, I watched The Apprentice and a candidate on the show was an INROADS intern, so I applied to this internship program during my freshman year of college. They had on campus practice interviews and other seminars, and I was waiting for an internship related to civil engineering. Then one day I get a call saying that they have an internship available and they are looking for an engineering major, and that the internship was with Google. I was going to hold off and wait to see if something related specifically to civil engineering was available, but since it was with Google, and since I transferred to Berkeley with 64 transferrable credits, I had a lot of wiggle room. So I accepted, and the next step was to actually interview with Google. So there were two interviews, one general interview and the other more specific towards technology. During the general interview, I was asked questions about time management and stuff like that, and since I had taken AVID and College for Success classes, I learned about time management and note taking, and stuff like that, so that interview was pretty straight forward. Then during the tech interview, I was asked about my troubleshooting skills and my familiarity with computers. I had high school friends who were knowledgable about building and troubleshooting computers, so I learned a thing or two from them, so those questions weren’t too bad. Then I was asked, “what are you an expert in?” It took me awhile to think of something to say. I couldn’t say computers, because I know I’m not an expert in computers. During this phone interview I was sitting at my desk at home, and above my desk I had a bookshelf. So when I sat back to think of something to say, I was looking at my bookshelf, and more than half of my books were on marijuana. When I was in high school, I took a political science course and I wrote about cannabis politics for my final, and I was so interested in this topic that I bought more books than I should have, and I still had these books that I purchased online. At the time, I was still fresh on the material. Time was running out, and I couldn’t think of anything else I was an “expert” in, so I said that I was an expert in marijuana. Then the interviewer replied, “how so?” And I went on saying that I’m an expert on the topic from an intellectual perspective, that I’ve read several books on the topic and have done other research and wrote an essay and continue to read up on the topic. Then he asks, “so you read online forums and stuff?” and I replied simply and certainly saying, “yeah.” Then he tells me they’ll call me back. So I hang up the phone, and the interviewer really didn’t give me enough of a response to my answer to that question for me to be sure that it was not a bad answer. So the following week or so, I was stressing out, but hoping for the best. Then I get an email from, let’s say the Google internship coordinator, asking me if I have time to talk. That’s when I figured they don’t want to tell me the bad news through email. So I call the coordinator, and she begins by saying something like, thank you for your interest in pursuing an internship with Google, and goes on saying other stuff, and then says that I got the internship, but I probably shouldn’t say things like I’m an expert in marijuana.