My PWC Adventure

Today was the first official day of my summer internship. The majority of the day was spent on administrative housekeeping, such as going over the PwC ethos (which was basically a day-long version of the PwC mission statement), imprinting laptops and identifying resources for both help and professional development.

PwC has a rather extensive digital knowledge base that I hope will end up being useful in practice and not just in theory. A SNAFU with the network they set up at the hotel conference room forced us to trek to the actual PwC office in order to complete the laptop imprinting process. I also found out that parking is going to cost me an arm and a leg.

I met up with several interesting people from all over the country and beyond. Some people were from as close as the local college and some were from as far away as Ghana (the country in Africa in case you failed geography). One of the ice-breaker exercises was to meet people that fit a list of criteria. For example, we were supposed to look for someone who had caught a foul ball at a baseball game or had been bungee jumping or sky diving. One of the tasks was to meet someone in the armed forces... Out of the 80 interns that were there, it seemed that I was the only veteran among them. The end result was my meeting EVERYONE. There were obviously some pretty bright folks but... there were also some folks that can only described as low watt bulbs. However, it's only the first day and far be it for me to judge a book by its cover.

Part of today's agenda included the breakdown of coaching groups and teams. Some of the teams have interesting names such as Gold Rush and Mavericks. My team is named PCS, which I can only assume means Private Company Services. I also happen to be the only intern assigned to that team (every other team has 3-6 interns). I have no idea what this means for me and can only hope it's an honor rather than a disgrace.

I've enjoyed the socializing I've done with the people I've met thus far and hope to create some long lasting professional relationships across the many disciplines of accounting.