Internship at Accenture >>

starting last monday, i started my internship at a consulting firm called Accenture. its amazing. im getting to experience the most professional workplace in society. Accenture is one of the biggest global consulting firms in the world, and in Korea, they deal with groups like LG, SK, KT, POSCO, GS, and many more. During my first week, I helped my supervisor prepare a proposal to POSCO (one of the if not the biggest steel manufacturers in the world) about having them innovate their electronic data management system. I've been basically researching a lot of articles on Accenture's very own database (which is not accessible to the public) to find the necessary information required by my supervisor. I think i did okay with that job. it was nice seeing materials from the documents that i found and translated on the proposal. i feel like i've accomplished something (in fact i created one of the slides for the powerpoint, which outlined the benefits of upgrading the Electronic Content Management System from version 5.3 to 6.5).
this week, my group was put into a new project with LG electronics. they are trying to upgrade their Procurement system, which deals with acquiring items for their commodities from their suppliers in the most inexpensive and efficient way through data management, managerial integration, and supplier collaboration. this is such a big project that i really dont have much to do cuz at this point im pretty useless. but i'll still be able to learn a lot from their meetings.

working in the accenture building and LG building is amazing. access is restricted so the company has have my personal information before i give up my id card to obtain a card to get through all these doors. they even took my laptop's serial number to prevent information leakage (this new and fresh ass laptop was lent to me by Accenture to use). no matter how young i am, everyone speaks formal language (존대말) to me and its kinda cool. a typical lunch/dinner topic would be something like .... "how is your project with samsung going? are they going to work with us? how much is the project worth? 3 million dollars? oh thats pretty good" (actually i dont really remember the amount of money cuz they use the korean won terms. it could be wayyy more than 3 mil for all i know).

im getting to work with people who run Korea and maybe even the world. im kinda starstruck when i see these baller-high-ranked people. i also had lunch/dinner with them. i try my best to look and sound as intelligent and not-goofy as possible, but its hard. its all good cuz they laugh at my jokes and comments.

every day at work, i cant help but thinking so unqualified. these people have worked so hard and done so much to get to where they are at, but i really havent done anything. but this is a start, and im truly grateful for this opportunity. i'm going to makeup for my shortcomings by working extra hard and doing whatever i can do to not impede others from making progress.



p.s. i miss yonsei and the good times i had this summer. this summer's been truly great