My internship with Schlumberger
Living in a different country always gives you a lot of opportunities, but also poses you in a rather uncomfortable position of being far far out of your comfort zone. My internship in London is exactly this way.
This internship with Schlumberger was about seismic interpolation. Although my internship with Fugro was just about the same topic, these two internships are nowhere the same. The United Kingdom and Norway are very different countries, ranging from people, attitude, over food to the landscape and weather. Just the same counts for the two companies, while Fugro was a small player in the field1, Schlumberger and Western Geco are the big player in the seismic industry.
There is a huge difference between university and working full tie. When you're working 35 hours a week, you can go home in the evening and stop worrying about work. This takes quite some effort when you're in university. You can always do more for university and I think it might be a habit worth starting to worry less and accomplish more.
Now even before I started this internship, the contact to Schlumberger was very nice. We wrote a couple of e-mails that included my CV and and a rough direction where this internship might lead. Then a telephone conference was set up, which basically served as an interview. I admit that I was very nervous before that interview. I strolled around in my apartment like a tiger in its cage. The interview itself went reasonably well. It was quite technical, which I honestly wasn't prepared for, so I basically did an ad hoc presentation about my bachelor thesis and the Common Reflection Surface over the phone. Quite interesting indeed.
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Seismic imaging
Courtesy of Western Geco
Courtesy of Western Geco
There is a huge difference between university and working full tie. When you're working 35 hours a week, you can go home in the evening and stop worrying about work. This takes quite some effort when you're in university. You can always do more for university and I think it might be a habit worth starting to worry less and accomplish more.
Now even before I started this internship, the contact to Schlumberger was very nice. We wrote a couple of e-mails that included my CV and and a rough direction where this internship might lead. Then a telephone conference was set up, which basically served as an interview. I admit that I was very nervous before that interview. I strolled around in my apartment like a tiger in its cage. The interview itself went reasonably well. It was quite technical, which I honestly wasn't prepared for, so I basically did an ad hoc presentation about my bachelor thesis and the Common Reflection Surface over the phone. Quite interesting indeed.
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