Thursday

Thursday was definitely the day I was most excited about when I saw my schedule because today we did the YouTube challenge!!!! We had a speaker from the team do a session with us on the history of YouTube,their policies and just basically how they want to rival TV into the future.Then we were given the challenge to create a YouTube video with the ever so mysterious theme of "YouTube:Past,Present and Future".So naturally,my team went with our Googler to the top floor of the Google Docks building,filmed ourselves pretending to be cats,parodying our favourite YouTubers and running into walls-then proceeded to lose the challenge.As you do.And there was such cool swag :( No,I'm sad we lost but honestly it was such unbelievable fun,I loved getting to do something like that and then seeing all the other teams videos later on in the day,they were all great and I laughed so hard at them all! :)
    Then,after a quick 15 minutes sneaky work on our CV in preparation for interviews tomorrow (eeeeeeeek!),it was time for the Social Action Challenge! We were given just under an hour to put together a pitch to convince a member of Google's CSR (Corporate Social Responsibility) team that Google should have a CSR team...Yeah.My team shared a presentation on Google Drives and got some really good advice/information from the Googler who set the challenge so we were quite confident when we got up to pitch.We won the challenge,Google coffee mugs (almost) all around,and I went home with a fancy notebook and keychain,so I mean,I got the best prize ^.^ I really enjoyed the challenge,especially using the share presentation feature-it was so easy and useful to be able to all work on it at the same time and have a chat room open,we didn't even have to talk to each other in reality,though we did cause ya know,social convention.
     To round the day off well we ended with a Career Spotlight,we had the lovely Maria Laura in with us and honestly she probably had one of the two jobs I'd love to do if I ever work at Google (the other being,ya know,YouTube team),programs manager.I found the session really useful,she talked all about what she does on a day to day basis which was mostly analysing data,which sounds very challenging but also worthwhile and important.I found it interesting that her desire to work in technology started so young and so simple,and that she didn't do too mathematical of a college course...Overall it convinced me to want her job or at least one like it so it must have been beneficial! :)
    I had a blast and I'm so sad tomorrow is the end :(